#89 | Clare Dunne | Actor/Writer (Herself)

On the 89th episode of FNI Wrapchat is Actor, Playwright and Screenwriter CLARE DUNNE. You may know Clare from her recent starring role in "Kin" for Rte and Bron studios and her beautiful performance in "Herself". We had a wonderful chat about making opportunities for yourself, Sharon Horgan empowering you and how Meryl Streep popped into her dressing room. Clare also tells us about her long and ultimately fruitful Journey of her Script "Herself" which was subsequently made and will Screen at Sundance in 2020. Herself looks at a single mother in Dublin, taking the bull by the horns and creating a self build home for herself and children during one of the worst housing crisis's in Ireland's history and how people, the community and the Irish spirit... is what will get us out. Dunne’s work at the Abbey Theatre includes Juno and the Paycock (a co-production between the Abbey Theatre and the National Theatre of Great Britain). Other theatre work includes The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Silver Tassie, Druid 35 and The Playboy of the Western World (Druid), Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse), Detroit (National Theatre), Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith and Filter), A Midsummer Night’s Dream[3] (Filter at Latitude) and Crunch (Nabakov). Dunne wrote and performed Living With Missy (Smock Alley Theatre). Radio work includes On Her Majesty’s Service and 'News From Home' (BBC Radio 4). Dunne graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff in 2009. Dunne played Prince Hal in the Donmar Theatre all-female version of Shakespeare's Henry IV., directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Dunne's film work includes Nice Night For It (2017) and The Cherishing (2016). Clare portrayed Victoria in Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) "Herself" written by Clare, Produced by Element Pictures and Directed by Phyllida Lloyd will be in Irish Cinemas later this year. #WeAreFNI