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Salt-Water Moon
Off West-End Awards Feb 2024
About
Cumulus’ Peter Kavanagh is an award-winning director of stage plays, TV and audio drama. Peter graduated with Honours (2/1) from Trinity College Dublin in languages and literature.
He was a film editor with BBC NI, script editor in BBC Films, then director in TV and radio drama. His output includes full length TV, radio plays and short films, some from his own scripts.
Currently directing theatre and writing stage plays and films.
His other passion is observational photography. (see bottom of page)
Film & TV
The Spot Fx Man
Starring Peter Vaughan
(ARENA, BBC2)
DoP: Remi Adefarasin
Writer/Director: Peter Kavanagh
Sisters
Starring Lisa Faulkner, Amy Schindler, Rosie Fellner, Ben Crowe
(BBC 2)
Co-producer, director:
Peter Kavanagh
Theatre, Audio, Podcast
Salt-Water Moon
FINBOROUGH THEATRE
Starring: Bryony Miller, Joseph Potter
2 NOMINATIONS 'OFF WEST-END AWARDS' Mar '24
11 x Four Star**** &*****Five Star Reviews: 'Captivating..' ' ''...a mesmerising production..'.. '...impeccable direction...'
'..thrilling performances,,,'
Director: Peter Kavanagh
The Boor + A Door (Chekhov & de Musset)
Chichester Theatre Festival
.Starring Nick Moran, Clare Lawrence-Moody, Emily-Rose Smith
'Nick Moran wonderful as the troubled Count,.... effortless move to the comical boor' ... glorious'
Director/Translator: Peter Kavanagh
The Labyrinth - Arrabal
Dublin Theatre Festival - Royal Court Theatre
Starring: Deirdre Morris, Malcolm Douglas
A first-rate revival of Arrabal's Absurdist classic... in a transfer to the Royal Court... pungent... hauntngly atmospheric...'
Director: Peter Kavanagh
Le Cid
Starring James Purefoy, Indira Varma, Gina Mckee, Eleanor Bron
(BBC Drama on 3)
'Daring and faithful... Ranjit Bolt's translation in customary fashion dynamises...'
Director: Peter Kavanagh
Sightings of Bono
Starring Bono
(Treasure Films /All Ireland Now) With music by U2
Director: Peter Kavanagh
The Pros, The Cons and A Screw Starring: Mark Bonnar, Neil Maskell, Simon Trinder, Don Gilet
Winner NFTS-TAPS-BAFTA Best Short film
Director: Peter Kavanagh
Cyanide At 5
KINGS HEAD THEATRE
Starring: Lise-Ann McLaughlin, Philippa Heimann
by Pavel Kohout
2 x Four **** Star Reviews 'A gripping production...' '...captivating performances...' 'intensely moving and profound'
Director: Peter Kavanagh
The Most Dangerous Woman In America
Windsor Fringe Festival
Starring Veronica Quilligan, Isabella Inchbald,Ed Browning
The Kenneth Branagh Drama Writing Awards - Winning Production - (Windsor Fringe, '21)
"Outstanding'". ..brilliantly performed and directed...' '..."An amazing performance...'. '...beautifully captured...'
Directed by Peter Kavanagh
The Interrogation
BBC Drama on 3
With Pinter's 'Landscape', starring Harold Pinter, Penelope Wilton
'
Completely compelling... Michael Gambon in a Pinter double bill has restored my faith... "
Special Commendation Prix Italia Awards
Director: Peter Kavanagh
The Norman Conquests
Starring: Julian Rhind-Tutt Helen, Baxendale, Nigel Planer, Tracey-Ann Oberman
(BBC R4)
'Howl with laughter at this stellar cast... Kavanagh got it right with his bold decision to run the plays out of sequence...'
Director: Peter Kavanagh
I Was the Cigarette Girl
Starring Andrew Scott & Nuala O'Neill
(BBC N.I.)
Bronze Shield, Columbus Film Festival
Director: Peter Kavanagh
Paint Your Garden Green
BBC N.I Producer D. Hammond
Galway Film Festival Nomination: Best Editing (Docs): Peter Kavanagh
Not Quite Jerusalem
FINBOROUGH THEATRE
Starring: Ryan Whittle, Miranda Braun, Ailsa Joy,Joe McArdle, Russell Bentley, Ronnie York
NOMINATION 'OFF WEST-END AWARDS'
Lead Performance in a Play: Ailsa Joy
10 x Four **** Star Reviews "A superb revival..' 'A triumph' '..enthralling...''..stormingly performed... 'ingenuiously realised. '..mordantly funny...'
Director: Peter Kavanagh
Love and the Art of War
Kings Head Theatre
starring Stewart Wright, Su-Lin Looi.
'...A deftly directed comedy romance... nimble shifts
...a blythly entertaining ...delicate study of unlikely love"
Directed by Peter Kavanagh
The Good Companions
Watford Colosseum -semi-staged performances
with BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor John Wilson
Starring: Mark Meadows, Liz Robertson
'This Andre Previn musical could not have been more entertaining,... a superb evening.”
Director: Peter Kavanagh
Beast
Starring: Emma Fielding and James Fleet (R4)
'A superb two-hander from Nick Warburton... studded with misinterpretation and sudden shards of understanding.'
BBC R4 Tinniswood Award Best Play / BBC Audio Drama: nomination Best Production
Director: Peter Kavanagh Listen:
https://rumble.com/v269986-beast-by-nick-warburton.html
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The Wild Duck
starring Samuel West, David Threlfall,
James Fox, Lise-Anne McLaughlon
(BBC Drama on 3)
Nomination- Best Director BBC Audio Awards
Director: Peter Kavanagh
https://archive.org/details/HenrikIbsenBBCr4/01+The+Wild+Duck.mp3
See more reviews:
'The Press on Peter Kavanagh'
See sample Photography (below + 'More')
Contact
My Observational Photography:
(use a laptop to see my other collections:
"Sleeping People","Stonehenge '23", "Holy Week, Seville" etc
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