Our second Artist in Residence for 2016 is Liam McCarthy, who is developing a new risqué farce that looks at liberal attitudes and ideas.

Liam is from Limerick. His plays include A Talent for Lying (Brighton Fringe, Camden Fringe, Dublin, Limerick) Alya: Falling (Collaborations, Dublin/Belltable, Limerick) and the radio play This Night (various Irish radio stations), among others.

Liam studied at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 2012. He also studied Drama and English at UC Berkeley, California. He started acting as a child with the Island Theatre Company in Our Town and has gone on to perform with many companies in Ireland, the UK, the USA and in Spain.

He co-founded Octopus Soup Theatre in 2013. He has worked as a drama teacher and as a facilitator with various schools and organisations both in Ireland and abroad. He currently works at the Ark, a cultural centre for children in Temple Bar and has recently taken part in The Next Stage Programme at the Dublin Theatre Festival. He writes about theatre for A Younger Theatre and Broadway Baby. When not talking about himself in the third person he spends his time pondering the difference between an “aspiring writer” and “an emerging writer” as he works as an occasional barman.