Myles Breen is an Irish actor, performer, writer and storyteller.

Biography

Myles Breen was born and raised in

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, Ireland, on September 2, 1964. As a child, he attended speech and drama classes and competed in Féile Luimnigh. He attended

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in the early 1980s and was a member of the UCC Dramatic Society. He was a founding member of the Bottom Dog Theatre Company in 2008. He was the playwright one-man show ''Language Unbecoming a Lady'' was originally produced in 2009 for

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. It was later performed nationally and at the Origins Irish Festival in New York (2015), for which he won the best actor award at the festival. He also wrote ''The Bachelor of Kilkish'' (2014) which was originally performed in Lime Tree Theatre. He wrote and performed in ''A Wilde Fan'' (2021), an homage to

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. All three of these productions were directed by Liam O'Brien (Irish actor). Breen has made several television and film performances, including

Killinaskully ''Killinaskully'' is an Irish television comedy series which details the bizarre goings-on in a fictitious Irish village called Killinaskully located in the hills of Ireland. It was actually filmed on location in the villages of Killoscully an ...

The Clash of the Ash ''The Clash of the Ash'' Is a 1987 Irish film written and directed by Fergus Tighe, and starring Liam Heffernan as Phil Kelly, with co-stars Gina Moxley, Vinny Murphy and Alan Devlin.Northanger Abbey (2007 film) ''Northanger Abbey'' is a 2007 British television film adaptation of Jane Austen's 1817 novel of the same name. It was directed by British television director Jon Jones and the screenplay was written by Andrew Davies. Felicity Jones stars as ...

, Corp & Anam (2011), and Harvey: The Monster Catcher (2012). In 2014, he was honoured with a Limerick Person of the Month award. Two years later, he was selected as the Grand Marshall of the Limerick Pride Parade. He has played various roles with Island Theatre Co. such as Manus in ‘Translations’, Eugene in ‘Biloxi Blues’, Danny Mann in ‘The Colleen Bawn’, Claudius in ‘Hamlet’ and various roles in ‘Pig Town’ and ‘Under Milk Wood’. Myles’ other acting roles include Joxer in ‘Juno & the Paycock’, Antonio in ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (Steeple), Andrew Aguecheek in ‘Twelfth Night’ (Natural Shocks), Philly Cullen in ‘The Play boy of the Western World’ (Yew Tree ) and Heskie in ‘Love, Peace and Robbery’ (Magic Roundabout). He has also appeared with Daghdha, Animated State, Gallowglass, Quare Hawks, Graffiti, Aisling Ghear, Impact, and Teaspach. In Modern times, Myles performs in the Irish Pantos, having performed in 15, including ‘Beauty and the Beast’, ‘Aladdin’, ‘Snow White’ (performed at CentreStage), ‘Cinderella’ (performed in the Olympia) and ‘Pinocchio’ (performed in the Everyman). Myles also writes and directs the annual ‘Creative Show’ event, put on by the Limerick Youth Theatre in collaboration with the Daughters of Charity. The Creative Show has run for 12 years being performed in both the Lime Tree Theatre and Belltable, with Breen running all of them.

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Television series

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* {{IMDb name, 0106457 Irish male film actors Irish male stage actors Irish male television actors Male actors from County Limerick Actors from County Limerick