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Micheál Lovett, playwright

Micheal Lovett is from Kilworth, Co. Cork, Ireland. He was born in 1974 and attended the Presentation Convent, Fermoy, Kilworth National School and St. Colman's College, Fermoy. At the University of Limerick he read for a B.A. in Business Studies and went to Dublin to work as a copywriter for ....... Over the years he gained experience as an actor with the local Ballyduff amateur drama group, who had achieved a great deal of success in the amateur drama competitions. In 1997 he wrote his first play The Deadman's Beard' which was accepted for development by the Everyman Palace theatre in Cork. In 1998 Micheal was offered a position as writer-in-residence of the newly developing Everyman Palace Theatre company. HIs new play, 'The Deadman's Beard' was produced and opened at the Everyman in..... The play was critically well received and went on a National Tour of Ireland in September 2001.

Working life[edit source] At the completion of the writer-in-residence post Micheal moved to Twickenham in London and set up a theatre company  with Director, Geoff Gould, Actor, Michael Patric and lighting designer Elizabeth Murray called Blood in the Alley. Both Gould and Lovett were students at St. Colman's, Fermoy and the handball alleys were the scenes of all the drama, hence the name for the new theatre company. He and Gould lived in Lebanon Park mansions and the flat became a central location for actors from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Regular visitors were Leon Ockendon, Andrew Musselman, Malcolm Adams, Martin Lucey and the Irish rock band Bell X1. Themes[edit source]

Theatre;