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Biography – Mikel is from Sligo. He trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris and returned there in 1995 to take the third year pedagogical degree. Previous work at the Abbey and Peacock Theatres includes The Playboy of The Western World, The Tempest and The Comedy of Errors. He was a founding member of Barabbas…the company. He has directed Diamonds in the Soil and The Lost Days of Ollie Deasy for Macnas. He directed Trad for Galway Arts Festival which went on to appear at the Edinburgh, Perth and Adelaide festivals and transferred to the Bush Theatre, London in 2007. Mikel directed the new Enda Walsh play The Walworth Farce which won a Fringe First in Edinburgh 2007 after appearing at Galway Arts Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival and which will travel to St. Anne’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, New York in the Spring of 2008. Mikel has worked with Druid, Passion Machine, Pigsback and Rough Magic theatre companies. Films include The Commitments, Guiltrip, The Butcher Boy, Sweety Barrett, Love and Rage, The Last September, Three Joes, Ella Enchanted and Intermission. Writing and performing work for Irish television includes Nothing To It, Ten Minute Tales, and Straight to Video. He most recently appeared in The Clerk and the Clown at the Kilkenny Arts Festival and in Ionescu’s The Chairs, with the Blue Raincoat Theatre Company which will tour to Bulgaria in 2008. He most recently appeared in a new Enda Walsh play The New Electric Ballroom directed by Enda Walsh for Druid Theatre company at the Edinburgh Festival 2008 which won a Fringe First Award, Herald Angel Award and numerous 5 star reviews – and which will soon appear at the Perth Arts Festival (2009), Australia prior to a appearing at the Riverside Studios, London.

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