Gerard Stembridge

Gerard Gerry Stembridge b 1958 County Limerick Ireland is an Irish writer director and actor He was educated at CBS Sexton Street in Limerick and later at Castleknock College While attending University College Dublin he was auditor of the Literary and Historical Society He taught English and drama at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Clontarf He reached significant prominence in Ireland when he cocreated the satirical comedy radio programme Scrap Saturday with Dermot Morgan Stembridge wrote the screenplay for Ordinary Decent Criminal which starred Kevin Spacey and Linda Fiorentino He cowrote Nora a film about James Joyce and Nora Barnacle which starred Ewan McGregor and Susan Lynch He has directed such films as Guiltrip Black Day at Black Rock Alarm and About Adam