Oisín Kearney

Oisín Kearney is from Warrenpoint, Co. Down. He studied Politics at the University of Cambridge. He now lives in Belfast, where he works as a writer and director for stage and screen.

Oisín localised Willy Russell’s script of Educating Rita to 1980s Belfast for the Lyric Theatre, and was Assistant Director on the project. He was also Assistant Director on The Lyric’s production of Good Vibrations, and worked closely with Colin Carberry and Glen Patterson on their translation of the story from screen to stage.

He has directed several documentaries, including All For Show (BBC NI True North), Bbeyond (BBC Arts Show), Borderlands and Unfinished Revolution (De Correspondent, NPO2), and BOJAYÁ: Caught In The Crossfire (Hot Docs Film Festival 2019).