Cian McGarrigle
- Editor
- Actor
- Writer
Cian is a comedy screenwriter from Mayo, now based in Kilkenny. He studied film at GMIT and the National Film School, IADT. Cian created the award-winning RTE Storyland series Burning Wishes and co-wrote episodes of Nowhere Fast and Red Rock for Deadpan Pictures and Element Pictures respectively. He is currently writing episodes of two animated shows for the Oscar-nominated studio Cartoon Saloon. His work has also appeared on comedy shows Republic of Telly, The Doireann Project and Callan's Kicks on RTE Radio and television.
His short Rip to the Rescue! won awards at the Galway Film Fleadh, Waterford Film Festival, Mayo International Film Festival and The Dark Hedges International Horror Film Festival. In 2019 Cian was awarded the Film Mayo Tyrone Guthrie Bursary and in 2014 he won the prestigious Pitching Award at the Galway Film Fleadh.
As a writer Cian brings a lively, offbeat comic tone to his work. In The Irish Times Donald Clarke said his short film No Messages was "...like the pilot for a sitcom you would actually watch. The acting was confident. The jokes were secure." Scannain.com called Rip to the Rescue "an inventively ironic culture clash" while Pat Stacey writing in The Evening Herald called Burning Wishes "a gleaming gem of a comedy."
Cian is currently developing three feature projects: Bank on It - a heist-comedy, Dan in Flames - a coming-of-age comedy-drama and The Crooked - a west of Ireland folk horror.
His short Rip to the Rescue! won awards at the Galway Film Fleadh, Waterford Film Festival, Mayo International Film Festival and The Dark Hedges International Horror Film Festival. In 2019 Cian was awarded the Film Mayo Tyrone Guthrie Bursary and in 2014 he won the prestigious Pitching Award at the Galway Film Fleadh.
As a writer Cian brings a lively, offbeat comic tone to his work. In The Irish Times Donald Clarke said his short film No Messages was "...like the pilot for a sitcom you would actually watch. The acting was confident. The jokes were secure." Scannain.com called Rip to the Rescue "an inventively ironic culture clash" while Pat Stacey writing in The Evening Herald called Burning Wishes "a gleaming gem of a comedy."
Cian is currently developing three feature projects: Bank on It - a heist-comedy, Dan in Flames - a coming-of-age comedy-drama and The Crooked - a west of Ireland folk horror.