Damien Hasson

Damien is an award-winning writer and actor originally from Derry in the north of Ireland.

Credits as an actor in film and TV: ‘Women on the Verge’ (RTÉ/W); ‘Pablo’ (BBC); ‘A Belfast Story’ (Netflix/Jolt Me Features); ‘The Widow’s Last’ (Reel Issues Films); ‘Hollyoaks’ (Channel 4) and ‘Agnes’ (UTV).

Theatre roles include touring internationally on ‘A Clockwork Orange’ (Action To The Word); ‘La Dispute’ (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); ‘Philadelphia, Here I Come!’ (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); ‘The Crack in Everything’ (Derry Playhouse/Brian Friel Theatre, Belfast); ‘Anatomy of a Seagull’ (Loose Canon, Dublin); ‘The Unquiet Grave of Garcia Lorca’ (Drayton Arms); ‘Plasticine’ & ‘The Bacchae’ (Southwark Playhouse) and ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ (Bruiser/Irish Tour). Voice Over Credits: Alexa; University of Ulster; Just-Eat and Motion-Capture work playing various characters on Baldurs Gate 3 (Larian Studios).

As a writer, Damien was awarded Northern Ireland Screen’s New Writer Focus award in 2021 and he has a number of projects for screen in development with companies including Vico Films and Big Fish.

For stage, his play ‘Venus Quarry’ was workshopped in RADA and produced by Pluck Theatre company, who also commissioned his short piece ‘Unflappable’. Damien’s first play, ‘The Cold Hearth’, was shortlisted for the King’s Cross Award for New Writing and his most recent work, ‘One Hundred Fires’ was shortlisted for the in inaugural Leodis Prize for New Writing.