Nick McGinley is a writer, voice over artist, performer and casting director based in Ireland, currently engaged on a novel and a screenplay.
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His black comedy novel The Casting Director is out now on Audible, Amazon and i-Tunes. Click here for the audiobook and here for the e-book.
Nick wrote and recorded a column on a relaxing kayak trip up the River Dee to see the Whitewood Lough Crannóg for RTE Radio’s Countrywide. A more comic column Henrick’s Aural Peacockery was broadcast for the same show. Tap on the column titles for the links. He wrote and voiced his spoken word piece Hikikomori for Keywords on RTE Radio presented and produced by Zoë Comyns.
The Disappearing Actor was published in the January 2017 issue of Drunk Monkeys – here’s the link. His short story Hammertime was published in Stand Magazine – Volume 13 (3). Christmas Action Movie, a longer piece of festive comedy fiction, is available here on Amazon.
Nick played the recurring part of drug dealer Ian MacLeod in the Dutch drama series Mocro Maffia broadcast on RTL, streaming on Amazon Prime and on Videoland in the Netherlands.
Since 2006, Nick has worked as a casting director on Irish features (Kisses, Dollhouse, Life’s a Breeze, Love Eternal) and he ran the Irish searches for unknowns on UK/US productions (Calm With Horses, War Horse, ’71, The Guard).
Nick cast the Irish supporting roles for his UK colleague Shaheen Baig on God’s Creatures starring Paul Mescal and Emily Watson. Again for Shaheen Baig Casting, he did the local Irish and child casting centred around Newry on Cathy Brady’s feature Wildfire and cast all the Irish children on Shane Meadows’ CH4 drama series The Virtues.
He cast the voices, children and adults, on children’s TV animation series Ray of Sunshine for Daily Madness Productions and cast the voices on Nicky Phelan’s new pre-school TV animation series Lu & the Bally Bunch for Brown Bag Films now available to watch on Cartoonito UK, CBC in Canada and TVNZ+ in New Zealand.
In 2019, he was in Donegal and Kerry looking for new Gogglebox Ireland families, and casting TV commercials for Horse Racing Ireland and TAM Ireland on behalf of director Ian Power. Nick also cast two TV promos for Ian – Today with Claire Byrne and Drivetime for Butter and RTE.
Nick wrote and performed the award-winning comedy double act Hoarse Throat Soothers with Shane O’Neill in 2008. His radio play Mutual Trust Assurance was shortlisted for the 2006 PJ O’Connor award. He has had articles published in The Journal, The Irish Times, Film Ireland, The Sunday Business Post, and written for RTE Online. He has been a radio essayist for Spectrum and Frequencies on RTE Radio 1 and read his own fiction on RTE’s The Book Show.
In 2009, his comedy non-fiction book 100 Reasons to Vote Yes to Lisbon II (Trashface Books) reached number 8 in the Hodges Figgis chart.
He is also an experienced independent voice over artist available for in-studio or remote recording.
Nick studied Drama at Trinity College Dublin and Film Production at Dublin Institute of Technology. Nick directed the MA Graduation short film Blind Mice, which was screened at the Galway Film Fleadh, Cork Film Festival, Foyle Film Festival and on RTE Television.
Contact Details:
Email: nick@nickmcginley.com
Tel. +353 86 8239035