About Ciaran McMahon

Ciarán Mc Mahon has a Masters Degree in Facilitation and Group Dynamics he has been performing on a weekly basis on the comedy circuit in both Stand up and Improv for the last 6 years.

A qualified teacher/facilitator Ciarán runs both stand up and improv drama and comedy workshops for both adults and children and presents workshops for people from every walk of life.

By day be facilitates strategic planning, brainstorming and creative thinking workshops for Corporate Groups that include TV3, RTE and Mental Health Ireland! The kind of people have come through the workshops are everything from web designers, policemen, actors, lawyers, troublemakers and comedians. Everyone benefits from the course whether they have stage experience or not.

The idea of these workshops came about from the need to be confident in the material and yourself before stepping on stage. ‘Six years ago I stood on a stage in Kilkenny Cats Laughs and had 30 minutes of stand up material that I thought was going to go down a storm. Twenty minutes into the set the material and set had crumbled and I effectively ‘died’ on stage,

I swore I would never do it again!’ One year and a Masters degree later I was back performing and running a comedy club in the Hapenny Bridge Inn twice a week. It is from this experience that I designed the workshops as I realised the need for proper preparation, advice and feedback!

It is extremely beneficial to have a forum for developing material so that it can be tested before it is performed. These workshops in Doyles Pub Fleet St. beside Trinity College are the best forum to write, polish and perfect your material, gain confidence and perform in front of a live audience. Through the process of the workshops everyone’s material is polished and honed to produce the tightest and best delivered material. The workshops unite your personality with your sense of humour developing your style of comedy into a solid stage persona.

Go on, see if you’re hard enough!