Sinéad Handy
Home / Our Members / Sinéad HandySinéad is the founder & director of The Handy Theatre Co. and is currently teaching children & teenagers from all over the midlands in speech & drama, acting, singing & dancing, with her very own studio based in Clara, Co. Offaly.
She also travels to schools to facilitate drama workshops.
She has been performing & singing since a young age on stage and in choirs and has had leading roles in many of her local musical societies & drama groups.
She trained and worked as a nurse for many years then went and trained in drama facilitation with Youth Theatre Ireland and recieved her diploma in speech & drama with Griffith College under the guidance of Mary Whelan Fox.
She was the overall winner of the Leinster School of music & drama excellence award for speech & drama performance in 2022.
Musical theatre roles to date:
Kathy Seldon (Singing In The Rain),Yum Yum (The Hot Mikado), Piti Sing (The Hot Mikado),Gertrude (Seussical The Musical), Chava (Fiddler on the Roof), Niki Harris (Curtains), Jemima (Cats), Jan (Grease), Rizzo (Grease), Natalie/Ed (All Shook Up), Sukie Rougemont (The Witches of Eastwick), Elle Woods (Legally Blonde), Roxie Harte (Chicago), Lauren (First Date), Kate Monster (Avenue Q) Ruth (Calendar Girls The Musical) Mary (The Snapper)
Theatre credits with Clara Players
- Boeing Boeing
- Darlings you were wonderful
- To have and to hold
- Prince Lear