JIM SWEENEY

Jim Sweeney

 

 

Jim Sweeney is best known for his work as one of the country's foremost improvisers, being one of the original Comedy Store Players and appearing regularly on WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY. He is also an accomplished actor and writer and adapted his play DANNY'S WAKE (nominated for a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival 1999 and winner of the Granada Comedy Writing Award), into a series for BBC Radio 4. His Edinburgh production MY MS AND ME last year opened to fantastic reviews and has since played in London and recently went out on BBC Radio 4.
     
TELEVISION    
     
KISS ME KATE ‘Mike’/ BBC 1997
JO BRAND THROUGH THE CAKEHOLE Performer/ Channel X for Channel 4 1995
PAUL MERTON IN GALTON & SIMPSON'S Various Central TV for ITV 1994
JUST A MINUTE Guest/ Mike Mansfield TV 1994
PAUL MERTON AT THE PALLADIUM Guest / LWT 1993
JACKANORY Reader / BBC 1993
A WORD IN YOUR ERA Guest / Channel X 1992
WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? Regular Guest / Hat Trick 1990-1992
PARAMOUNT CITY BBC 1991
ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE Performer / BBC 1990
PRESS GANG ‘Tommy Edwards’/ Thames 1989
BLACKADDER III ‘Coleridge’/ BBC1 1987
THE RORY BREMNER SHOW Performer / BBC 1985
     
RADIO    
     
MY MS AND ME Adaptation for Radio 4 2005
OFF THE CUFF
Guest Bona Lattie Productions Radio 4 2003
ALL THE YOUNG DUDES Writer / Performer Radio 4, (2 Series) 2001
THE BIG BOOTH Guest / BBC Radio 4 2001
JUST A MINUTE Guest / BBC Radio 4 1992
     
THEATRE    
     
MY MS AND ME Writer / Performer Edinburgh 2004
SICK TRANSIT Writer / Performer Edinburgh 2002
DANNY'S WAKE
Writer / Performer Edinburgh Lyric Hammersmith 1999
BETRAYAL
‘Jerry’ Dir. John Joe Turner / Tour and BAC  
SCISSOR HAPPY
Devised and Performer
Dir. Neil Mularky
1996
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