Ciarán trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin.

Previous work for Shakespeare’s Globe includes Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet (2022), Twelfth Night, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2021).

Other theatre credits include Maz and Bricks – Best Actor at New York Origin Theatre Awards (Fishamble/59E59 Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe); The Plough and the Stars (Lyric Hammersmith/ Abbey Theatre/ USA Tour); The Playboy of the Western World, Orson’s Shadow (Southwark Playhouse); Of Mice and Men (Birmingham Rep); Translations (The Rose Theatre/Sheffield Crucible/ETT); Drum Belly, The Government Inspector, Curse of the Starving Class, Arrah Na Pogue, Perve, The Comedy of Errors, The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, Saved, Julius Caesar (Abbey Theatre Dublin); Travesties (Rough Magic); Between Foxrock and a Hard Place, The Shawshank Redemption, Philadelphia Here I Come! (Gaiety Theatre Dublin); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Livin’ Dred); Elevator, This is our Youth, Fewer Emergencies (Project Theatre Dublin); The Great Goat Bubble (Galway Arts Festival); The Magic Tree (Edinburgh Fringe); White Rabbit Red Rabbit (Dublin Fringe); Oliver Twist (Gate Theatre Dublin).

Television credits include Misfits (Clerkenwell Films/ Channel 4); Ripper Street (BBC); The Last Security Man (RTE Storyland); The Tudors (USA Showtime); Fair City (R.T.E).

Film credits include Hunted (Shudder, Kidam, Wrongmen, Savage Productions); Pursuit (An Post); Bloom (Odyssey Pictures); The Boy From Mercury (R.T.E).