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Dan (2) Gordon

DAN (2) GORDON

  (1961 - )
Nationality:    Irish
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Dan Gordon is a qualified and registered Teacher but doesn't do it as its too hard, so is chiefly an actor - director - writer - documentary maker - newspaper columnist (Sunday Life) - social commentator - presenter - after dinner speaker and occasionally stand up. He wants to live and work in Ireland, so has diversified in recent years because acting roles are limited. He is on the board of the Lyric Theatre Belfast and the NI Actors equity Committee, is an Artist in Residence for the Prison Arts Foundation, a member of the Arts & Business Advisory Committee and a Patron of Bruiser Theatre Company (along with Duke Special and Sue Townsend). Dan is Vice Chair of 'Friends of the Academy' (Belfast Royal Academy - oldest school in Belfast), an advisor in Drama to CCeA (exam Council) for GCSe - and involved with the Thomas Devlin Trust , Brooke Advisory Services and the David ervine Trust.

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below is a list of Dan (2) Gordon's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Boat Factory, The         Forget Turkey (We liked it so much we are going to Phuket again)         Forget Turkey (We liked it so much we are going to Phuket this Christmas)         Only Beelieve

Boat Factory, The

Synopsis:
July 1947. the sun shines down on a post-war world. A 16 year-old boy walks through the gates of Belfast's Harland & Wolff Titanic Shipyard. 1700 ships built between here and the Clyde, 67 different trades, 300 acres of land and 35,000 men employed at its height. Regarded as the biggest and best there is, if you can dream it - they can build it. This is history - this is his story - this is the BOAT FACTORY.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     04 Aug 2012

Organisations:
Happenstance Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Forget Turkey (We liked it so much we are going to Phuket again)

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written by Dan Gordon; Colin Murphy and Gary Mitchell

1st Produced:
Lyric Theatre, Belfast     2013

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

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Forget Turkey (We liked it so much we are going to Phuket this Christmas)

Synopsis:
A&E on Christmas Day Anne and Edgar wait with an elderly man on a trolley

Notes:
Written by Dan Gordon; Colin Murphy and Gary Mitchell

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

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Only Beelieve

Synopsis:
In the beehive a new queen is born - Princess Clara - but there are dangers in the hive

Notes:
rights information: info@cahootsni.com

1st Produced:
Tower Street Theatre, Belfast     19 Oct 2006

Organisations:
Cahoots NI

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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