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Micheál Lovett Playwright and writer

Born in Cork 12th June 1974. Attended St Colman’s College Fermoy, University of Limerick and Dublin Institute of Technology. Lovett is married to Sarah Breen Lovett. Lovett was nominated for the Stewart Parker award in 2002 He now ives in Australia.

Early Life

Through a family member, Lovett’s first play came to attention of Geoff Gould, Artistic Director of The Everyman theatre in Cork, thus starting an enduring personal and professional relationship. With Michael Patric and Lizzie Powell, Geoff Gould and Lovett founded Blood in the alley theatre company.

Work

Theatre

The Deadmans Beard 2001 Everyman productions

Set in a rural Irish village in the 1970's, this play is centred around the Brennan family whose innermost fears and secrets are laid bare as the story progresses. Caught out of time and at an age where it is not customary for exchanges between mothers, sons and extended family members, the play attempts to capture the stagnated relationships in one family. Written in the colloquial language of rural Kerry, the family business of undertaking the dead sets the tone for this black comedy.

Tricky 2003 Blood in the Alley Productions Set against the backdrop of 1981 London, “TRICKY” retells the story of the Shakespearean ascension of a Richard “Tricky” Bollingbrook to the head of an underworld family, in 1980’s London. His vision and future plans upset the old school family and culminates in a dramatic face off between the old and new, with the IRA in the middle.

“Within Tricky, Micheál Lovett offers a style reminiscent of Shakespearian tragedies, Tarantino films and “Only Fools and Horses” episodes culminating…. a unique piece of theatre.” - Richmond Times, UK “A diamond show!” - Camden News Journal “ relocates Shakespeare's tragedy to the ganglands of East London, and blends Only Fools and Horses comedy with the gangsters that wouldn't be out of place in a Guy Ritchie or Quentin Tarantino film.” - Theatre World, UK

This Ebony bird 2004 Blood in the Alley & Hlaf Moon Theatre The date is September 29th 1979, the night prior to the Pope’s visit to Limerick. It is also the night Batty Spender, a local sacristan, tackles his demons. He has seen a lot of things he shouldn’t have seen, heard a lot that he shouldn’t have heard and he needs to tell someone.

Half Moon Theatre- 2004

Macbeth at the gates 2007 Dem Boys Productions, New Orleans Caught between death and the depths of hell, Macbeth and his queen find themselves in the hands of the gatekeeper, with whom they must bargain for their souls. One will enter, both will fight to be free.

Jumping the sharks 2010 Blood in the Alley Productions Nick Cross, a tough-guy media executive with a taste for fast cars, deviant sex, booze and class A narcotics. The dead Cross addresses us from a purgatorial afterlife, rewinding and replaying the dissolute past that got him to this present situation.

Radio My Heart upset the Moon 2003 RTE production