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COMEDIENNE, ACTRESS, and ventriloquist Nina Conti was born and raised in the Hampstead area of London surrounded by intellectuals, actors, and artists.

DRUID THEATRE Company’s award-winning production of Enda Walsh’s blistering New Electric Ballroom comes to the Town Hall shortly for a brief run as part of a national tour.

WHEN DUNDALK agit-folk singer David ‘Jinx’ Lennon arrived on the Irish music scene in the 1990s his spoken word diatribes poked at the back of what he called the Septic Tiger.

It’s so annoying when a film starts off quite interesting, leads into a dramatic action packed edge-of-the-seat middle, and then just fails miserably fobbing you off with an ending which is just ridiculous. It could have been so much more.

The people of Kilkenny are in for a treat as the one and only Brendan O’Carroll hits Hotel Kilkenny on November 19 with his new show How’s Your Wobbly Bits?

Ros na Rún is on the lookout for actors with cúpla focail to join the cast for the upcoming 14th season of the hit show! So if you’re a Gaeilgeoir with big ambitions to star in one of Ireland’s most popular drama series, Ros na Rún want to hear from you! With dramatic and exciting storylines in the pipeline, the producers are looking for an actor to fill the role of a womanising character who causes uproar when he works his charm on the female population of Ros na Rún! Ros na Rún are also searching for actors to play a larger than life elderly couple and a variety of smaller roles is also on offer. Auditions will be held on the Ros na Rún set in Spiddal, Co Galway, and fluent Irish is essential for all roles. If you are interested in auditioning, simply e-mail your CV with a recent photo to [email protected] before Friday, April 17, 2009. Ros na Rún will then contact you to arrange an audition.

ABBEY ACTOR Declan Conlon will read from the Loughrea Creative Writing Group’s new edition of its yearly anthology Razzle Dazzle.

After the recent resounding success of THEM in both Westport and London, St Patrick’s Drama Group are back with a new production. This time they stage The Telephone Exchange by Niamh Gleeson in the Wyatt Hotel, Westport, from Wednesday April 15 to Saturday April 18.

FOR THE second year running, the mighty Fight Like Apes will ring in the New Year at the Róisín Dubh - and this time they will have the added joy of also ringing in the new decade - when they headline the venue’s Strange Brew New Year’s Eve 2009 party.

The 2009 RTE All Ireland Drama Festival will get off to a flying start on Friday May 1 next as Kilmeen Drama Group from Cork take to the stage with Jimmy Murphy's touching play The Kings of the Kilburn High Road. Successfully adapted for film as Kings, this award winning work, which tells the tale of a group of Irish emigrant workers who meet up 25 years after they first set off seeking employment in England, will set the standard at this year's festival.