Colm Ó Foghlú

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Colm Ó Foghlú is a renowned Irish born musician, dancer, actor, playwright and director.

From a young age Colm studied dance with the world renowned Ó Sé School of Irish Dance. He also studied voice and various instruments at both the Royal Irish Academy of Music and The College of Music, Dublin, before joining the Bachelor of Music Programme in University College Cork. There he studied composition and piano with Dr. Micheál Ó Suilleabháin.

His solo album, Echoing, was released in 1997. Since then Colm has written/directed numerous show including Gaelforce Dance, a dance theatre show, which opened in New Zealand in 1997 then toured throughout Australia, Europe, Asia and North America reaching a total audience of 4 million people in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, London. Other shows include Irish Thunder for Busch Gardens and for television, the soundtrack for The Land of Sex and Sinners. Colm has also worked as a TV presenter with TG4 on Tóin le Gaoith, and also regularly works as a voice artist on their cartoons.

More recently, he was Musical Director for Riverdance at the Gaeity Theatre and in 2006 wrote and directed a modernised dramatisation of the great Irish mythological epic Táin Bó Cuailgne. The musical was staged by the Transition Years of Coláiste Eoin and Coláiste Íosagáin. The production was met with huge acclaim. Colm Ó Foghlú is about to complete an M.A. in Modern Drama in University College Dublin.