Dan Gordon
Theatre
Dan Gordon is an actor, writer and director. He is best known for his appearnces as ‘Red Hand Luke’ in the BBC series “Give My Head Peace”.
Among many notable stage appearances over several decades of work, he has starred in Marie Jone’s “A Night in November” in London and at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast.
As a director he has produced Frank McGuiness’s “Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme” with inmates from Hydebank Prison in South Belfast, which was filmed for a documentary series by the BBC.
He won the inaugural BBC NI Radio Drama Playwriting competition with “We Didn’t Just Build the Titanic You Know.” More recently he has written “The Boat Factory” , about the people of East Belfast , living around and working in the Harland and Wolff shipyard. This play toured successfully in the UK, Europe and America.
Away from the stage, Dan Gordon is a newspaper columnist and a regular commentator on TV and radio. He is on the board of the Lyric Theatre Belfast and the NI Actors Equity Committee, is an Artist in Residence for the Prison Arts Foundation, a member of the Arts & Business Advisory Committee and a Patron of Bruiser Theatre Company.