Sam McCready (actor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sam McCready (actor)

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1936

Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland

Date of Death: 10-Feb-2019

Profession: writer

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Sam McCready (22 November 1936 – 10 February 2019) was an actor, theatre director and playwright who was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
One of 13 children of David and Sarah McCready, he lived in Northern Ireland and in the United States with his wife Joan Carslake whom he met in 1958 at Stranmillis College, Belfast, and married in 1962.
They had two children. Sam was a founder member of the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, with whom he founded the Lyric Youth Theatre (1968), and later still the Lyric Drama Studio (1978).
He performed and directed theatre productions in Europe and the US, and with Joan McCready was the founder and co-Artistic Director of Two-for-One Productions, a touring company which specializes in small-scale productions.
He conducted the Drama Workshop at the Yeats International Summer School, Sligo regularly from 1999.
He also gained a reputation as a painter with major exhibitions in Ireland and the US.
Represented by ArtisAnn Gallery, Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast.