Acting

Mike Finn

Ireland

Mike Finn is a playwright, screenwriter and actor and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Iowa. He holds MA in Scriptwriting form the National Film School. He is a founder member of Island Theatre Co. for whom he appeared in over twenty productions and wrote seven plays. Mike won the 2000 Stewart Parker Award for Pigtown, which was originally produced by Island Theatre Company, receiving four Irish Times Theatre Award nominations before being produced Off-Broadway and in San Jose. His numerous other plays include The Quiet Moment, The Crunch and Shock & Awe (Island Theatre Co., Ellis Island (Theatre USF, Florida), Stories (LYT), Langered and One (Balor Theatre Co.), The Big Question (Institute of Excitement, Hampstead Theatre, London, The Affair on the Square (Georgian House), We Are What We Witness, The Revenger's Tragedy and Porkville (Bottom Dog) and Life in 2 Syllables (Fishamble). Mike has also penned fifteen pantomime scripts produced by Centrestage, for whom he also wrote the book and lyrics of the musical Soul Garden.

Acting credits

Star Portal poster
2.5

An alien from a race dying of a disease crashes on Earth and assumes the body of a human. She then precedes to take blood from other humans to send back to her planet. Things get complicated when she starts to feel human emotions and other aliens show up to exterminate her. Her only hope lies with a curious and helpful doctor.

Star Portal

1997

My Brother's War poster
5.0

Two brothers carry out a deadly terrorist bombing, but only one pays the price - imprisonment for life. Years later, the jailed brother is offered a second chance at freedom, providing he helps capture his fugitive sibling.

My Brother's War

1997

The Picture House: The Story of Limerick's Cinemas poster
NR

A history of Limerick’s single-screen, city centre cinemas: the Abbey, the Carlton, the Central, the City Theatre, the Coliseum, the Lyric, the Savoy, the Thomond, and the Tivoli. The documentary charts their cultural and economic importance from the glory days of the cinemas before television to their slow decline.

The Picture House: The Story of Limerick's Cinemas

2019

Planetfall poster
5.0

A spaghetti western in science fiction clothing. Competing female bounty hunters track down the ultimate treasure on a planet wracked with turmoil. A drug named psylenol has hit the streets, stolen from a secret military program and reconditioned to be an over-the-counter psychedelic. When the general populace starts developing telekinetic powers, the corrupt government of Zita declares martial law. When the film starts, a confiscated shipment of the drug has been stolen. Now the race is on to obtain the last supply of the most powerful drug in the universe!

Planetfall

2005

Cowboys & Angels poster
6.0

This story concerns a hapless civil servant who gets more than he bargains for when he moves into an apartment in Limerick with a gay fashion student and becomes a star on the catwalk. A contemporary story embracing the essence of what it is to be young in today's Ireland.

Cowboys & Angels

2004

The Haunting of Hell House poster
4.5

A mysterious, morbid professor who has suffered a number of horrid events in his life tries to help a young troubled man, whose girl friend was killed during an illegal abortion.

The Haunting of Hell House

1999