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MICHAEL COLLINS

Actor, Writer, Traveller Activist





Born: 1966, Ireland
Place of living:  County Meath, Ireland
Height: 155 cm
Spoken languages: English


AWARDS

2011
Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution and work around Travellers' rights, Traveller Pride Awards


2006
Award from Social Entrepreneurs Ireland in recognition of his work with the pioneering Traveller Wagon Wheel Theatre Company


INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL COLLINS


Favorite dish:Spuds Cabbage Bacon
Favorite color:Black
Mission, favorite citation:I bring other communities inside the Traveller home.
Horoscope:Sagittarius

Professional studies

1992
Acting
Gaiety School of Acting
Dublin, Ireland


1988
Theater in Education
TEAM Educational Theatre Company 
Dublin, Ireland

MAIN WORK

2016
Michael Collins: Ireland, Shed a Tear?
- as playwright
D.: Anthony Fox
The New Theatre, Dublin Theatre Festival
Dublin, Ireland


2015
Noelle Brown: FOXY
- as actor
D.: Oonagh Murphy
Project Arts Centre
Dublin, Ireland


2005
Michael Collins: It's A Cultural Thing, Or Is It?
- as playwright, performer, and director
The Traveller Wagon Wheel Theatre, Liberty Hall Theater
Dublin, Ireland



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COMPANY

2023
Project Arts Center Inclusion Strategy
National Traveller Pride Launch Event
Dublin, Ireland

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Favourite things

Favorite dish:Paella
Favorite color:Green
Favorite artwork:Mario Puzzo, Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather, r. Francis Ford Coppola

Adam McKay, David Sirota: Don’t Look Up, r. Adam McKay

Anders Thomas Jensen: Adam’s Apples, r. Anders Thomas Jensen

Salman Rushdie: Children of Midnight

József Holdosi: Kányák

James Fenimore Cooper: Leatherstocking Tales

Paul Kalkbrenner, Boris Brejcha and Goa Gil
Mission, favorite citation:What matters is not what you are now but what you can become.
Horoscope:Libra

photo credits

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 1: ©Alina Vincze

2: ©Alina Vincze

3: ©Alina Vincze