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Stephen Colfer

Stephen is a performer, writer and director from Kilkenny and based in Dublin and London. In 2025, he debuted his new solo stand-up show Stephen Jobs (a comedy about Stephen’s Jobs) to a sold out run at Dublin Fringe Festival. 

His short film GAP was funded by Screen Ireland and Bow’s Streets Actor as Creator. GAP screened at the New York Comedy Festival, Manchester Film Festival and won best Psychological Drama at The Berlin Short Film Awards.

Stephen writes and performs in the award-winning Dreamgun Film Reads, which earned Dublin Fringe’s Best Ensemble Award, was named one of BBC’s Top 10 Culture Podcasts Worldwide, and ranked as the 4th best-reviewed show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2019 by Comedy.co.uk.

As an actor, Stephen recently appeared on screen in The Kevin Intervention, In Between and Bicycle Thieves: Pumped Up. His previous acting credits include Steen Raskopoulos: Friendly Stranger, Deadly for the Abbey Theatre, The Beggar’s Opera with the European Opera Centre, and Trainspotting and The Hellfire Squad with Devious Theatre.

Stephen’s writing credits include contributions to Mock the Week and the Irish Film and Television Awards and his own body of theatre and comedy shows including DreamgunVideo, Dreamgun Dracula, PowerPoint, Personal Space Vol. 1 & 2, Chaos Theory, and Mimes in Time

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