The time has come for this chapter of Personality Bingo to close. In this episode, I provide a little context as to why now feels like the right time to end the podcast in its current state and move onto a new chapter.  While it's never nice saying goodbye, I hope this episode will give you a completely honest insight into the decision and please know that, should you ever miss your weekly dose of Personality Bingo, there are 139 other episodes to go back to, again and again.  Thanks for all your support over the years and stay in touch on Instagram and Twitter: tmoran93.

Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

The Final Episode of Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

Hugh Travers is a Dublin-based screenwriter and playwright. His credits include the recent feature film, Your Mother Should Know, the TV miniseries Trial of the Century as well as Election 18 and Red Rock. His theatre credits include Lambo, Clear the Air and the upcoming play These Stupid Things (Smock Alley 16th to 21st of July).  He is a founder member of the White Label theatre collective and a former participant of Rough Magic SEEDS. His plays have been longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize, the Verity Bargate Award and the Papatango New Writing Prize

Hugh Travers plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

Children's TV Presenter, Actor, and Youtuber John Sharpson has worked with National Broadcasters RTE, RTEJr. & TG4. A renowned and engaging presenter and YouTuber he can also be seen on • 'Facts' • 'The TRY Channel' • and his own child-friendly youtube channel 'Sharuf!' As an impressionist and voice over actor John can be heard on TG4 cartoons including Spongebob Square Pants, Scooby Doo, and Dot. His hobbies include Music, GAA, and acting the maggot! Instagram: johnsharpson Twitter: @johnsharpson Youtube: Sharuf!

John Sharpson plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

Dan Duffy is a 23-year-old DJ and is currently one of the busiest DJs on the island of Ireland who seems to be involved across a range of different parties. Having featured on lineups in Dublin, Belfast, Ibiza, Amsterdam, New York, Toronto, Vancouver and many more ranging from hip-hop to dance music with some of the biggest artists in the world it seems like the sky is the limit!

Dan Duffy plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

Aoife Spratt is an actor. She has appeared in theatre shows such as “Pulp Injection” “Blackcatfishmusketeer” (Malaprop Theatre) “Recovery” (onetwoonetwoproductions) “Kinsey one through 5” ( RTE Radio )

Aoife Spratt plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

A Dublin native, Tony Doyle is a graduate of the Full Time programme in Bow Street. He was the lead alongside Salma Hayek in Jim Sheridans short 11th Hour which just screened at Tribecca Film Festival. This year he also has supporting roles in Rebellion Series 2: Resistance, Micheal Inside directed by Frank Berry and Maria Doyle- Kennedys directorial debut short A Different Kind of Story which will have its premiere at this years Galway Film Fleadh. He has also appeared in John Carneys Sing Street, The Flag alongside Pat Shortt, The Secret Scripture and Red Rock. He will also be appearing in the film adaptation of Dublin Old School, written by Emmet Kirwan and Dave Tynan.

Tony Doyle plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

Leah Moore has a degree in drama from DIT has been involved in theatre and film from a very young age. Screen projects include; The End of The Reel (Blinder Productions), Whole in the Head (IFB), Battle (Winner of best film at the Portland International Film Festival), Dub Daze (Story Creative Artists) which premiered in the Dublin International Film Festival and most recently shot Restoration by Shaun Dunne. Leah devised and directed her first original play 8 Chairs which debuted in Smock Alley Theatre in Spring 2014. Since then she has gone on to direct numerous productions in theatres such as Smock Alley, The Lyric Belfast and The MAC Belfast and is the Artistic Director of SQUAD Theatre Company. Most recently Leah assistant directed the touring productions of Rapids by Shaun Dunne. Leah wrote and performed as Casey in Wasting Paper in Smock Alley Theatre and as part of the DIGTF where she won the Oscar Wilde Award for New Writing.  Recent stage work includes Toilers (Painted Bird/Cork Midsummers/Dublin Fringe), Chris Brown Can Do No Wrong (SQUAD Productions), Everybody Sings (Shaun Dunne & Broken Talkers), My Son My Son (Veronica Dyas/Project Arts Centre) , I AM BABA (National Tour), Tiny Little Christmas (National Tour) and Jump (SQUAD/ Project Arts Centre), Dublin Will Show You How (Abbey Theatre)

Leah Moore plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

Brian Gilligan is an actor who has appeared in the Commitments in the West End. He is currently performing on Britain's Got Talent.

Brian Gilligan plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

John Bucchino's songs have been performed and recorded by renowned pop (Art Garfunkel, Judy Collins), theatre (Liza Minnelli, Patti LuPone, Kristin Chenoweth, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald), cabaret (Barbara Cook, Michael Feinstein), and classical (Yo-Yo Ma, Deborah Voight, Nathan Gunn), artists as well as The Boston Pops, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in venues including Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Opera, The Hollywood Bowl, The Kennedy Center, The Sydney Opera House, London’s O2 Arena and The White House. Among his honors are two Drama Desk nominations, The Johnny Mercer Songwriter Award, The ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, The Jonathan Larson Award, The Kleban Award, The Los Angeles Ovation Award (for the revue IT’S ONLY LIFE), The DVD Premiere Award (for the song “Better Than I”), and the first annual Fred Ebb Award. He has written music and lyrics for the Broadway musical A CATERED AFFAIR with a book by Harvey Fierstein (nominated for 12 Drama Desk Awards, 3 Tony awards, and winner of the New York Drama League Award for Best Musical), as well as the musicals URBAN MYTHS, LAVENDER GIRL, the new Danish musical ESAURA, the revue IT’S ONLY LIFE, and the Dreamworks animated film JOSEPH, KING OF DREAMS, and the lyrics for the children’s musical SIMEON’S GIFT with a book by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton and music by Ian Fraser. Some recordings of his work are: GRATEFUL, THE SONGS OF JOHN BUCCHINO (with companion songbook), SOLITUDE LESSONS, the Australian release DAVID CAMPBELL SINGS JOHN BUCCHINO which reached number one on the Australian jazz chart, the PS Classics releases of the cast albums of IT’S ONLY LIFE (with companion songbook) and A CATERED AFFAIR, and two recordings of solo piano improvisations: ON RICHARD RODGERS’ PIANO (performed on the composer’s own Steinway, voted Best Instrumental CD by Show Business Weekly), and BEATLES REIMAGINED. As part of their Julie Andrews Collection, Harper Collins published a children's book, based on John’s song, called “Grateful, A Song of Giving Thanks” which was awarded the Parents’ Choice Gold Award. For more information, and to purchase CDs, songbooks or download sheet music or accompaniment tracks, please visit www.johnbucchino.com

John Bucchino plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

Support Personality Bingo and become a patron at our Patreon. If a contribution of a couple of Euro wouldn’t make a massive difference to your life, just know it makes a gigantic one in ours!  As Blindboy says, “it’s a model based off soundness”, so if you CAN support, please do on behalf of someone who can’t!  --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Juliette Crosbie is a graduate of The Gaiety School of Acting . Juliette has just wrapped production on The Other Lamb, directed by international award winning director Malgorzata Zsumowska. She will appear at Farmleigh Estate on May 4th to present a scene, ‘A Paper Airplane’ from the Fighting Words Dublin Group. Stage Credits Include; National Tour with The Abbey Theatre in the one-woman play Me Sara (The Peacock Theatre, Mick Lally, Galway) Irish premiere of Geroid Humphreys Norah (The New Theatre, The Lyric, Watergate, Riverbank) Juliette received high praise for her performance in the titular role. The Shaughraun (Smock Alley), Half Light (Baboro Childrens Festival ’18, The Ark, Smock Alley, The New Theatre), True Pirates Never Die (Smock Alley), award winning Fierce Notions (Smock Alley), Measure for Measure (National Monuments), GIRLPLAY (Morrigu Productions.) Film Credits include international feature The Other Lamb, the award winning feature Writing Home, Daddy Issues (dir. Tony Kelly) and DIT short PITSTOP. She is a well known jazz singer in the Dublin scene, having performed and hosted The Dublin Burlesque festival, in ’16 and ’17, as well as being an accomplished musician, trained in several instruments. Juliette has also featured as the voice for ‘Anna Meyers’, the female heroine of the video game Murder in The Alps, which is now available on SmartPhone and Tablet for free. She has also voiced the character of Anna Banana on the Nickolodeon Childrens TV show Rainbow Rangers, which has just aired in the US.

Juliette Crosbie plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

Support Personality Bingo and become a patron at our Patreon. If a contribution of a couple of Euro wouldn’t make a massive difference to your life, just know it makes a gigantic one in ours!  As Blindboy says, “it’s a model based off soundness”, so if you CAN support, please do on behalf of someone who can’t!  ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Gallagher is an accomplished stand up comedian, originally from Limerick, now based in Dublin. He is a regular in some of the top comedy clubs in Ireland and is the co producer of Riff Raff Comedy Club, which puts on weekly shows in Dublin and Galway featuring the best of Irish and UK stand up. Brian has performed at some of Europe's best festivals including a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe and he is a popular contributor to the hugely successful YouTube channel, The Try Channel.

Brian Gallagher plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

Dylan Coburn Gray is a playwright based in Dublin. His sole authored work includes Boys and Girls (winner of the Fishamble Best New Writing Award, nominated for the Stewart Parker Trust award) and Citysong (winner of Soho Theatre's Verity Bargate Award 2017). Collaborative work with MALAPROP Theatre includes Love+ (winner of the Spirit of Fringe award 2015) and Everything Not Saved (winner of the Georganne Aldrich Heller Award 2017, The Guardian's Best Shows of Edinburgh Fringe 2018). Both strands of his work play with form, and aim to challenge and delight in equal measure.

Dylan Coburn Gray plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

Support Personality Bingo and become a patron [at our Patreon here](https://www.patreon.com/personalitybingo?alert=2). If a contribution of a couple of Euro wouldn’t make a massive difference to your life, just know it makes a gigantic one in ours!  As Blindboy says, “it’s a model based off soundness”, so if you CAN support, please do on behalf of someone who can’t! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David is the Artistic Director of the famous Bewley’s Café Theatre in Dublin. He is also a freelance director and an award winning writer for stage and screen. His play Class, co-written and directed with Iseult Golden, won Best Theatre Script, ZeBBie Awards from the Writers Guild of Ireland and an Edinburgh Fringe First Award in 2018. Other writing credits include Belonging to Laura, a contemporary film adaptation of Lady Windermere’s Fan (Accomplice/TV3) and The Importance of Being Whatever, an adaption of Earnest (IFTA Winner 2012). His directing credits include: Beowulf: the Blockbuster (Edinburgh Fringe Stage Award, IAC New York, NY Times Critic’s Pick), These Halcyon Days by Deirdre Kinahan (Edinburgh Fringe First Winner/DTF 2012), Moment by Deirdre Kinahan (Bush Theatre, London), Moll by John B Keane (Gaiety, MCD/Verdant Productions), Pineapple by Phillip McMahon (Calipo/DTF), Hue and Cry by Deirdre Kinahan (IAC New York Times Critics Pick, Bewleys), Macbeth and Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (Second Age), Anglo the Musical (re-envisaged for the Olympia), In The Pipeline by Gary Owen (Paines Plough/Oran Mor Theatre, Glasgow), The Death of Harry Leon by Conall Quinn (Winner of the Stewart Parker Award for Best New Play 2009), Peter Pan (Pavilion Theatre @ Christmas), and the award-winning Tick my Box! (Inis Theatre).

David Horan plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

Support Personality Bingo and become a patron [at our Patreon here.](https://www.patreon.com/personalitybingo?alert=2) If a contribution of a couple of Euro wouldn’t make a massive difference to your life, just know it makes a gigantic one in ours!  As Blindboy says, “it’s a model based off soundness”, so if you CAN support, please do on behalf of someone who can’t!  --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meg Healy graduated from DIT with a BA Hons degree in  Drama Performance. Upon graduating, she co-founded The Sad Strippers Theatre Company along side Ciara Smyth and Laura Brady.  Some recent credits are Reality:Check’s Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin (Winner of the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Ensemble), Verdant Production’s ‘Trainspotting’ at the Olympia and Ciara Smyth’s ‘We Can’t Have Monkeys In the House’ at The New Theatre.  Meg is next appearing in ‘Arachnophilia’ which will run  in The New Theatre 16th – 20th April.

Meg Healy plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

Support Personality Bingo and become a patron [at our Patreon here](https://www.patreon.com/personalitybingo?alert=2). If a contribution of a couple of Euro wouldn’t make a massive difference to your life, just know it makes a gigantic one in ours!  As Blindboy says, “it’s a model based off soundness”, so if you CAN support, please do on behalf of someone who can’t!  --------------------------------------------------------------------- Roxanna Nic Liam is an Irish actor who has worked in Ireland and the U.K. She has worked with many Irish theatre companies including at The Abbey Theatre; (The Passing, Perve, The Plough and The Stars), Druid (Be Infants In Evil), Brokentalkers (This Is Still Life, The Passion Project), THEATREclub (Rough, THEATREclub Stole Your Clock Radio) and AXIS Ballymun (Stór). In the U.K. she had worked at The National Theatre (Liolà, Broad Shadow), toured the UK with English Touring Theatre (Translations) and The Separation at Theatre 503. In film she has starred in Agnes Browne, Rat, Two Hearts and The Cherishing. For tv she starred in Love/Hate and is currently on Fair City. She is also a practising and trained drama facilitator. She writes and performs poetry.

Roxanna Nic Liam plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

Every Sunday on The HeadStuff Podcast Network Tom Moran chats to a special guest using the medium of random questions as chosen by bingo balls. It's a fun and insightful glance into the lives of Tom's very interesting guests.

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Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

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