Member Update – Michael Poynor

ADA TREASURER, Michael Poynor, adapts and directs Johnathan Harker and Dracula.

Gerard McCarthy was awarded Sir Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Scholarship to train as an actor. He currently plays Kevin McSwain in BBC 2’s BAFTA nominated drama ‘The Fall’ starring Gillian Anderson.

Recently he played Brondsted in the first episode of Michael Hirst’s brand new History Channel series ‘Vikings’ starring Gabriel Byrne.

Gerard also played Rory Thompson in Samson Films’ ‘Belonging To Laura’, a modern day adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ directed by Karl Golden, which was nominated for Best Single Drama at the IFTA Awards.

On stage, McCarthy made his Shakespearean debut as Fenton in ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ at The Globe in London. The production received widespread critical acclaim and subsequently transferred to New York and Los Angeles with McCarthy reprising his role in both cities.

This new adaptation of Bran Stoker’s iconic masterpiece on vampirism, sees Gerard McCarthy playing both Jonathan Harker, whose diaries chronicle the bloody tale, and the greatest supernatural character of all time: Dracula. Using multiple cameras, backing screens, projections, surround sound and a newly commissioned score, this solo tour de force will make audiences scream.

wwwJonathanHarkerAndDracula.com

TV soapstar KYM MARSH, who played Annette in the West End production of Saturday Night Fever and recently performed in Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues along the RACHEL TUCKER who played Elphaba in West End production Wicked and is soon about to open on Broadway in The Last Ship and JAYNE WISENER from Tim Burdon’s Sweeny Todd will appear in pre-recorded cameo roles, as the ‘Brides of Dracula’.

Tour Dates:

Market Place Theatre, Armagh (15 October)

Riverside Theatre, Coleraine (16 October)

Braid Arts Centre, Ballymena (17 October)

Ardhowen theatre, Enniskillen (18 October)

University Concert Hall, Limerick (21 October)

Theatre Royal, Waterford (22 October)

The Helix, Dublin (24/25 October)

Millennium Forum, Derry (28/29 October)

The Burnavon, Cookstown (30 October)

Strule Arts Centre, Omagh (31 October)

Island Arts Centre, Lisburn (1 November)

Hawks Well Theatre, Sligo (2 November)

Moat Theatre, Naas (5 November)

Mullingar Arts Centre (8 November)

Two TBA venues during w/e 8 November