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“It is the use of music as a storytelling tool that makes Foley’s theatrical concept sing”
-The Irish Times
“Foley's songs prove incredibly robust and clever”
- The Arts Review
“ Foley's lyrics are impossibly smart”
-Hot Press
Fionn is an award-winning actor, writer and composer based in Dublin, Ireland. Recent writing and composition credits include Tonic, which was produced by the multi-award winning Rough Magic Theatre Company for Kilkenny Arts Festival and Dublin Fringe Festival. The Abbey Theatre commissioned Fionn to write a solo piece as part of ‘14 Voices from The Bloodied Field’ in 2020. Fionn was also part of their ‘Abbey Works’ new writing programme in 2019. Fionn was selected as one of 2018's Show in A Bag artists by the Irish Theatre Institute, Fishamble and Dublin Fringe Festival. Brendan Galileo for Europe was developed through this process and won both the 'Best Actor' and 'Bewley's Little Gem' awards as well as touring Ireland and running at Assembly as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Fionn’s critically acclaimed musical Fierce Notions won the 'Judge's Choice Award' at Dublin Fringe Festival in 2017. Other writing and composing credits include Eamonn (from Menswear) and the award-winning Half Light, which toured nationally. Upcoming projects include a musical adaptation of Roddy Doyle’s celebrated children’s novel The Giggler Treatment, which premieres at The Ark this Christmas. In 2023 His debut short film Cantata premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh.
As an actor, Fionn's theatre credits include A Christmas Carol (Gate Theatre) Light A Penny Candle (Gaiety Theatre, National Tour), Brendan Galileo for Europe (Assembly, George Square Edinburgh & Irish National Tour), Trainspotting (Olympia Theatre), The Harvest (New Theatre), The Messenger (Barnstorm), The Critic (Rough Magic) and the Grimm Tales of Cinderella (Smock Alley). Screen credits include Apocalypse Clown (Fastnet Films), Balor Hall (RTÉ), Into the Badlands (AMC) Blasts from the Past (RTÉ) , Vikings (History Channel), Ros na Rún and the IFTA-nominated EIPIC (TG4).
Fionn is an alumni of the Irish Theatre Institute’s ‘Six in the Attic’ initiative and is an associated artist of the Solstice Arts Centre, Navan. Fionn is a former artist-in-residence at Dublin Fringe Festival.