Barry McGovern

Barry McGovern (born 1948) is an Irish stage, film and television actor. He was educated at Castleknock College, Dublin. McGovern is a former member of the RTÉ Players and the Abbey Theatre Company. He has worked in theatre, film, radio and television, as well as written music for many shows, and co-written two musicals and directed plays and operas. He is known internationally for his award-winning one-man Beckett shows I'll Go On and Watt which the Gate Theatre presented at the 1985 and 2010 Dublin Theatre Festival respectively. McGovern revived 'I'll Go On' for a run at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City for L.A.'s Center Theatre Group in 2014.