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Dublin
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, Ireland, who has appeared in the Irish television drama
Whistleblower
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, which dealt with the controversial events at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in
Drogheda
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relating to obstetrician/gynecologist Michael Neary, and in theatre productions including ''Leaves'', ''
The Burial at Thebes
''The Burial at Thebes: A version of Sophocles' Antigone'' is a play by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, based on the fifth century BC tragedy ''Antigone'' by Sophocles. It is also an opera by Dominique Le Gendre.
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Kathy Rose is an Irish actress who trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. She is also a graduate of The Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin.
Upon graduating RADA she played Cockney girl-next-door, Lulu, in Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre.
Working next with The Druid Theatre Company, playing Lori in Lucy Caldwell's Leaves directed by Tony-award winning director Garry Hynes at The Royal Court Theatre in London, she was nominated for an Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She is a founding member of Women in Film and Television Ireland.
RTE Television received record viewing figures for its two-part drama Whistleblower. Kathy Rose played Marie, one of the whistleblowing nurses suspicious of a doctor's (Stanley Townsend) medical practice in this hard-hitting show.
Kathy Rose has worked extensively at The Abbey Theatre, the National Theatre of Ireland, amongst many roles she played Rosie Redmond in Sean O'Casey's The Plough and The Stars and Ismene in Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Thebes. She had the title role in Ellamenope Jones: The Musical written and directed by Wayne Jordan and workshopped and performed in ThisIsPopBaby's hit musical Alice in Funderland which took over The Abbey Theatre in 2012. She sang, danced and puppeteered in ANGLO: The Musical at The Bord Gais Energy Theatre.
One of her favourite roles was lifting Molly Allgood, the heroine of best-selling author Joseph O'Connor's novel Ghost Light, off the page in numerous performances to celebrate the Dublin UNESCO event One City One Book.
Television credits include Chasing Shadows (ITV), George Gently (BBC) and The Legend of Longwood which screened at the Irish Film Festival in Boston, USA. The RTE/Filmbase short film "Leave", which she stars in alongside Moe Dunford, premiered at the 2015 Galway Film Festival.
Kathy Rose is an accomplished voice-over and audiobook artist and a regular performer on both RTE Radio's Drama On One and The Book on One.
She has spoken at events including the World Actors Forum in Dublin in 2013, where she was a panellist alongside Penelope Wilton and Kirsten Sheridan.
Recent London theatre work includes Cinders in Baddies: The Musical by Marc Teitler and Nancy Harris at The Unicorn Theatre and the title role of Kate in The Taming of The Shrew at Shakespeare's Globe directed by Caroline Byrne.
Kathy Rose is an accomplished voice-over and audiobook artist and a regular performer on both RTE Radio's Drama On One and The Book on One. She won the New York Festivals Gold Radio Award for Narration of "The Little Pen Pal" in 2018.
Kathy Rose worked with Olivier award-winning director Rachel O'Riordan in "Come On Home" by Phillip McMahon at The Abbey Theatre in Summer 2018. She is one of 6 actors performing in "Theatre For One" produced by Landmark Productions (in a co-production with Octopus Theatricals) at the Cork Midsummer Festival 2019.
Kathy Rose has just devised and curated one of the first exhibitions at the new Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) in Dublin, on 20th century Irish novelist Kate O'Brien. "Kate O'Brien: Arrow To The Heart" will run until early 2020.kathyroseobrien.com /ref>
Theatre
In 2007, O'Brien appeared in the Druid Theatre Company production of ''Leaves'', written by the Belfast playwright and novelist
Lucy Caldwell
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and directed by Garry Hynes.Druid Theatre Productions. Leaves. Lucy Caldwell Druid Theatre. Retrieved 21 May 2010Royal Court Archive: Leaves Royal Court Archive. Retrieved 10 June 2009. For this performance, she received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress in the ''
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'' Irish Theatre Awards in 2007.The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards The Irish Times. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
She played Rosie Redmond in the Seán O'Casey play, The Plough and the Stars at
Dublin
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Abbey Theatre
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in 2010The Plough and the Stars at the Abbey Theatre , The Abbey Theatre. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
Selected stage credits
*Lulu; '' The Birthday Party''( Bristol Old Vic).The Birthday Party , London Theatre Database. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
* Mr Kolpert, Platonov; ''The Rep Experiment'': Dublin Fringe Festival, (Once-Off Productions). , Mr Kolpert. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
* Herodias; ''The Fall of Herodias Hattigan'' ( Dublin Fringe Festival).
*Ismene; ''
The Burial at Thebes
''The Burial at Thebes: A version of Sophocles' Antigone'' is a play by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, based on the fifth century BC tragedy ''Antigone'' by Sophocles. It is also an opera by Dominique Le Gendre.
Plot
Antigone, the daughte ...
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Abbey Theatre
The Abbey Theatre ( ga, Amharclann na Mainistreach), also known as the National Theatre of Ireland ( ga, Amharclann Náisiúnta na hÉireann), in Dublin, Ireland, is one of the country's leading cultural institutions. First opening to the pu ...
).The Burial at Thebes Radio Teilifís Éireann. Retrieved 10 June 2009. Irish Independent. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
*Nurse Bryant; ''Captain Oates' Left Sock'' (the Finborough Theatre).Captain Oates' Left Sock Finborough Theatre. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
*Margerie Powers; ''Handel's Crossing'' (Fishamble Theatre). Irish Independent. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
*Ellamenope Jones; (Randolf SD The Company)Ellamenope Jones , Project Arts Theatre. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
Television
In 2008, O'Brien played Marie, a nurse, in the award-winning television drama, ''
Whistleblower
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'', based on actual events at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in
Drogheda
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, County Louth in the 1990s, where Michael Neary, an Irish consultant obstetrician/gynecologist, was struck off the Register of Medical Practitioners for professional misconduct relating to the performance of caesarian hysterectomies.Whistleblower Whistleblower cast biographies. Radio Teilifís Éireann. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
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'' in an episode entitled "Bomber's Moon".
In 2014, she portrayed Sara Shah in the ITV mini-series, '' Chasing Shadows''.
Film
O'Brien's film credits include the short films ''The Orange'' (2006) and ''Daughter of the Brotherhood'' (2007).