Myles Breen is an

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actor, performer, writer and storyteller.

Biography

Myles Breen was born and raised in

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, Ireland. As a child, he attended speech and drama classes and competed in Féile Luimnigh. He attended

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in the early 1980s and was a member of the UCC Dramatic Society. He was a founding member of the

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in 2008. He was the playwright one-man show ''Language Unbecoming a Lady'' was originally produced in 2009 for Limerick Pride. It was later performed nationally and at the Origins Irish Festival in New York (2015), for which he won the best actor award at the festival. He also wrote ''The Bachelor of Kilkish'' (2014) which was originally performed in Lime Tree Theatre. He wrote and performed in ''A Wilde Fan'' (2021), an homage to

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. All three of these productions were directed by

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. Breen has made several television and film performances, including

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, The Clash of the Ash (1987),

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, Corp & Anam (2011), and Harvey: The Monster Catcher (2012). In 2014, he was honoured with a Limerick Person of the Month award. Two years later, he was selected as the Grand Marshall of the Limerick Pride Parade.

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* {{IMDb name, 0106457 Irish male film actors Irish male stage actors Irish male television actors Male actors from County Limerick Actors from County Limerick