James Michael Doolan
Overview
- Ethnicity
- White / European Descent
- Age Range
- 26 - 36
- Height
- 6' 0" (1m 83cm)
- Weight
- 10st. 0lb. (64kg)
- Hair Colour
- Brown
- Eye Colour
- Brown
Education
Year | Qualification | Where |
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About me
I have multi-skills as a actor/singer/ comics/ movement performer, writer and many more skills as well as all want to learn new skills. I play guitar, ukulele and write songs.I have graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama. Whilst studying I have also been training in acting, singing and dance at Carney Academy Sheffield, run by West End and Broadway Director Ruth Carney-Nash.
I made my professional theatre debut in The Pied Piper at The Unity Theatre Liverpool, where I played The Pied Piper and multiple roles in an ensemble of four actors directed by Nina Hajiyianni. A play devised by the actors with writer Kevin Dyer.
I'm about to start work on two plays at Carney Academy, using site-specific theater for The Lights by Howard Korder and Eight by Ella Hickson both directed by Drama Practitioner Ellie Tillotson, I'm also working and writing my own one man solo play.
Skills
Languages Spoken | English |
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Accents/Dialects | English - London |
Additional Skills | Acting |
Highlights
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I've only had a little bit of experience as a model. I did a Promo for Sheffield sanctuary housing at the Cheshire flower show last year. There design was celebrating a hundred years of steel in the city. I was the man of steel, i played a steel worker. I had my photo taken in a garden that had been designed from iconic images of Sheffield. I was recreating, and playing difference images and poses as a steel worker.
I am a young actor, i've just finished my first professional theatre job in The Pied Piper at unity Theatre Liverpool, where i played the pied piper and multiple roles in a ensemble of four actors directed by Nina Hajiyianni.
I have just graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama. Whilst studying I have also been training at Carney Academy Sheffield, run by West End and Broadway Director Ruth Carney-Nash.
While at Carney Academy I recently took a television/film acting course at the Carney Academy taught by screen writer and director Dina Jacobsen. A As a result of this course I was cast and have just been in my first short film. It is an installation piece called Bastion directed Ray Jacobs. I've just finished filming for short films "Cold Beans", filmed for a day with the BBC for TV/documentary. This week I'm about to film a short "The Break Up".
Thank you for your time. Hope to hear from you soon.
Yours sincerely
James Michael Doolan -
I graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University last year with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama. Whilst studying I have also been training in acting, singing and dance at Carney Academy Sheffield, run by West End and Broadway Director Ruth Carney-Nash. While at Carney Academy I took a television/film acting course taught by screen writer and director by Dina Jacobsen.
I made my professional theatre debut in The Pied Piper at The Unity Theatre Liverpool, where I played The Pied Piper and multiple roles in an ensemble of four actors directed by Nina Hajiyianni. A play devised by the actors with writer Kevin Dyer.
As a result of this course I was cast in my first short film. It is an installation film piece called Bastion directed Ray Jacobs. The film has just been shown around world at many festival like Sprout Film Festival in New York and won First Prize at the Meeting Rimini Film Festival. I Won Best Male Actor at Breaking Down Barriers film festivals in Russia for my role in Bastion. I've worked on six short student films early last year and filmed for a day with the BBC for TV/documentary. I'm about to start work on a short film about a young boy growing up in a working class family and has a secret of been Transvestite.
Last summer I performed in "The Sheffield Mysteries" rep play at Crucible at Sheffield Theatres, where I was cast and directed by Artistic Director Daniel Evans. After which I went to study in Oxford at The North Wall Residency on the outreach summer project. Training, Researching and developing a brilliant new play professional play called Fragment by John Hoggarth and directed Ria Parry from Iron Shoes Productions, working along side Oliviero Papi from Au Brana Cultural Center and amazing music by Dom Lawton Productions.
Before returning back to Carney Academy, for summer school where I played Link Larkin in a workshop performance of Hairspray Directed by Ruth Carney-Nash and choreographed by West End choreographer Richard Roe, as well as training in workshops led by actress Samantha Robinson in the evenings.
Followed by a Television acting workshop with Ian Smith with Ideas Tap. I've just performed in two plays at Carney Academy, using the form of Site-Specific Theater for The Lights by Howard Korder and Eight by Ella Hickson both performed in a warehouse and directed by Drama Practitioner Ellie Tillotson.Taking on the challenge rehearsing and performing in two play in the same day and with very little rehearsal time.
I'm now working with Ellie on a professional story telling place for children with we are takes to some schools for the next few week with the company 'Grimm and Co'. I'm writing and working on my own solo one man play, as well as creating a YouTube Vlog with friends, Recording for a radio play in Sheffield.
I have attached my CV, photos, video's and Head shots into this Email if you would like to take a look and My Spotlight link is http://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/9658-3495-9267
If you like to contact me my Email is jamesmichaeldoolan@Outlook.com or my phone number is 07955680913 or my agent Carole Crane email Carney Talent (talent@carneyacademy.co.uk) or phone on 07976869442.
Thank you for your time. Hope to hear from you soon.
Yours sincerely
James Michael Doolan