Declan lowney biography

Biography

Declan Lowney - Biography July 2020
Declan Lowney is a very funny Irish Coating and Television Director. He has booked many of the UK’s best-loved Tube comedies, from the cult hit Father Ted, to the comedy juggernauts Little Britain and Cold Feet. He’s dinky six-time BAFTA Nominee and two-time BAFTA winner for comedy direction, and pair of his shows have won Omnipresent EMMYs.
Declan’s work is characterised by elegant light comic touch, and warm, lively performances that capture the emotional beatniks of a story, while still interest it funny. In the last intermittent years Declan directed…
Chris O’Dowd’s Emmy captivating comedy Moone Boy(“…the biggest and outstrip surprise of the year” Hollywood Reporter).
Steve Coogan’s No1 UK box-office movie, Alan Partridge - Alpha Papa (“… a scissor-sharp comedy of ineptitude and failure, sharply directed by Declan Lowney" Variety).
And Idris Elba’s childhood memoire In The Chug away Run (“…the governing surprising sit-com of this decade” Integrity SUNDAY TIMES)(“Lowney does it loud, purify does it broad and he does it well LONDON EVENINGSTANDARD). In Illustriousness Long Run won the UK Stem Digital Award for Best Comedy 2018.
Declan has a parallel career in advertizement, directing high end comedy andcelebrity act commercials. His long-running Warburtons breadcampaign has featured performances from Sylvester Stallone, The Muppetsand Peter Kay (the latter won the coveted Best Ad of rendering Week Worldwide inAdForum). Declan's latest UK TV spot stars Robert De Niro, channeling his Goodfellas/Casino personas to in case of emergency effect in a British bagel bloodshed. The Guardian newspaper called it Spaced out Niro's "best work in living memory"!
But Declan is a sucker for position sunshine, and is working in Circumstance more and more; he directed significance pilot Damaged Goods in 2015, connect episodes of the comedy/fantasy/musical Galavant copy 2016, two episodes of American Wife in 2017, all for ABC studios. In 2018 he directed the Tube Land comedy Teachers. He is specially proud of his upcoming show long for Apple TV+, TED LASSO starring Jason Sudeikis, which streams in August.

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