Kilmeen Drama Group from Rossmore, Co. Cork has won the top award at the 2026 RT\u00c9 All-Ireland Drama Festival.<\/p>\n
Directed by Denis O’Sullivan, the group were crowned All-Ireland drama champions for their performance of ‘Ballyturk\u2019.<\/p>\n
The awards ceremony took place in Athlone last night.<\/p>\n
Bridge Drama, directed by Susan Somers, who performed \u2018Things I Know To Be True\u2019 by Andrew Bovell were placed second.<\/p>\n
Dalkey Players, directed by Emma Jane Nulty, who performed \u2018Sive\u2019 by John B\u2019 Keane were placed third.<\/p>\n
Mark O’Brien, Executive Director of the Abbey Theatre said that the Abbey was delighted to continue their partnership with the festival.<\/p>\n
He announced that the winner of the Abbey Award for 2026 was also the Kilmeen Drama Group who presented \u2018Ballyturk\u2019 by Enda Walsh.<\/p>\n
The Abbey will host the group in the Peacock at the end of May.<\/p>\n
Kilmeen director Denis O\u2019Sullivan took home the award for Best Director.<\/p>\n
In addition, Niamh Power as \u20182\u2019 won the award for best actress, and Crona McCarty, Kilmeen Drama Group won the award for best stage setting.<\/p>\n
Other award winners included, Dermot Byrne, Dalkey Players, who won the best actor award for his role as Thomasheen Sean Rua in \u2018Sive\u2019.<\/p>\n
Sin\u00e9ad Rafter, Bridge Drama, received the award for the best actress in a supporting role for her portrayal of Rosie Price in \u2018Things I Know To Be True\u2019.<\/p>\n
While Pat Sinnott from Wexford Drama Group won the best supporting actor award for his role as Michael (Englishman) in \u2018Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kilmeen Drama Group from Rossmore, Co. Cork has won the top award at the 2026 RT\u00c9 All-Ireland Drama…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-662097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}