Raymond Scannell
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Raymond Scannell is a multi-disciplinary arts practitioner who works in a freelance capacity as a writer, performer, musician & sound designer. His solo play Deep won ‘Best Male Performer’ and was nominated for the ‘Spirit of the Fringe’ at the Dublin Fringe Festival Awards 2013. Previous solo show Mimic toured nationally and internationally at cities including Galway, Kilkenny, Dublin (‘Best Male Performer’ Dublin Fringe Festival 2008’), PS122, New York (COIL festival), the Irish Arts Center, New York 2011, the Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris, and Electric Picnic 2011. As an Actor, Raymond Scannell has toured internationally with Druid’s The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh and played ‘Barney Bagnal’ in Druid’s Production of the Silver Tassie, as part of the Lincoln Center Festival 2011, New York. As Sound Designer Ray was commissioned by thisispopbaby Theatre Co. to compose original music for the Musical Alice in Funderland, (presented and Co-Produced at the Abbey Theatre, March 2012, Nominated for ‘Best Production’, Irish Times Theatre Awards 2013). Working primarily in theatre, Raymond Scannell also has an MA in Screenwriting from the IADT, Dun Laoghaire. Raymond was a participant in Six in the Attic, an Irish Theatre Institute resource sharing initiative.