Myles Breen

Myles Breen was born and raised in Limerick City, Ireland, on September 2, 1964. As a child, he attended speech and drama classes and competed in Féile Luimnigh. He attended University College Cork in the early 1980s and was a member of the UCC Dramatic Society.^[1] He was a founding member of the Bottom Dog Theatre Company in 2008.^[2]

He was the playwright one-man show Language Unbecoming a Lady was originally produced in 2009 for Limerick Pride. It was later performed nationally and at the Origins Irish Festival in New York (2015), for which he won the best actor award at the festival.^[3][1] He also wrote The Bachelor of Kilkish (2014) which was originally performed in Lime Tree Theatre.^[4] He wrote and performed in A Wilde Fan (2021), an homage to Oscar Wilde.^[5] All three of these productions were directed by Liam O'Brien (Irish actor).^[6] Breen has made several television and film performances, including Killinaskully, The Clash of the Ash (1987 film), Northanger Abbey (2007 film), Corp & Anam (2011), and Harvey: The Monster Catcher (2012).^[7]

In 2014, he was honoured with a Limerick Person of the Month award.^[8] Two years later, he was selected as the Grand Marshall of the Limerick Pride Parade.^[9] He has played various roles with Island Theatre Co. such as Manus in ‘Translations’, Eugene in ‘Biloxi Blues’, Danny Mann in ‘The Colleen Bawn’, Claudius in ‘Hamlet’ and various roles in ‘Pig Town’ and ‘Under Milk Wood’. In 2016, Myles was awarded the honour of leading the Saint Patrick's Day Parade. ^[10] In 2015, he led the Pride parade. ^[11]

Myles’ other acting roles include Joxer in ‘Juno & the Paycock’, Antonio in ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (Steeple), Andrew Aguecheek in ‘Twelfth Night’ (Natural Shocks), Philly Cullen in ‘The Play boy of the Western World’ (Yew Tree ) and Heskie in ‘Love, Peace and Robbery’ (Magic Roundabout). He has also appeared with Daghdha, Animated State, Gallowglass, Quare Hawks, Graffiti, Aisling Ghear, Impact, and Teaspach.

In Modern times, Myles performs in the Irish Pantos, having performed in 15, including ‘Beauty and the Beast’, ‘Aladdin’, ‘Snow White’ (performed at CentreStage), ‘Cinderella’ (performed in the Olympia) and ‘Pinocchio’ (performed in the Everyman). Myles also writes and directs the annual ‘Creative Show’ event, put on by the Limerick Youth Theatre in collaboration with the Daughters of Charity. The Creative Show has run for 12 years being performed in University Concert Hall with Breen running all of them. In 2026, Myles Breen celebrated 30 consecutive years of performing in the Limerick Panto, revealing he has played the ‘Ugly Sister’ a total of 8 times.^[12]