Charlie McCarthy

Charlie McCarthy is an award-winning writer and director.

He has worked extensively in television with credits including; Jack Taylor with Iain Glen, for Telegael & ZDF, On Home Ground, Pure Mule (IFTA Nomination for Best Director), Legend, The Clinic, Raw, Single Handed, Play Next Door, Charlie – the drama based on Charlie Haughey’s life and times – an Element Pictures/Touchpaper Television production for RTE and Grace Harte for TG4, which won the prestigious international CIRCOM Media Award for Best Drama.

His documentary Seamus Heaney – Out of the Marvellous, received an IFTA for Best Documentary, was a winner at the Celtic Film Festival, and won a Bronze Medal at New York Television Festival.

Charlie has written two award-winning radio plays, Rose Early One Morning and A Swing For Jelly. He also wrote two stage plays for Dublin Youth Theatre and was writer/director of the award-winning feature television drama Home for Christmas, which was nominated in five categories at the Irish Film and Television Awards.