PHILLIP MCMAHON
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Phillip McMahon is a playwright and director based in Dublin. He began acting with Dublin Youth Theatre and the National Youth Theatre and subsequently went on to work and train as an actor with many theatre companies including The Abbey Theatre, Barnstorm, TEAM, and Pan Pan. Phillip is one half of the pop culture outfit THISISPOPBABY with whom he has acted, directed, written and produced. His play Danny and Chantelle (still here) won the Spirit of the Fringe Award 2006. Phillip was appointed the Abbey Theatre Writer in Association for 2009/10. He wrote the book for and directed I'm Your Man (music and lyrics by Mark Palmer) which featured in the 2015 Dublin Theatre Festival programme. RIOT, produced by THISISPOPBABY, won the Best Production Award at the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival in 2016 and went on to tour internationally. Phillip is associate artist at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London 2019/20. He was a participant in Six in the Attic, an Irish Theatre Institute resource sharing initiative, from 2014 - 2016.