It wasn’t until the summer of 2009 that he would begin his journey and a chance phone call with a well known Irish Actress/Acting teacher ended up with him enrolling in his first set of acting classes. The Irish Film Academy in Temple Bar was the place and Rachel Sarah Murphy was the teacher and under her guidance he learned much about what it is to be an actor and most importantly what it is to be the character, here he realised that all those years of “Abbey Acting” as his father put it had a place and ultimately a purpose.

Irish Actor Cid Campbell was born in the liberties area of Dublin and as a result spent his childhood surrounded by “characters” that you would think only existed within the writings of James Joyce and Brendan Behan and surrounded by historic landmarks such as Marshes Library/Christchurch Cathederal/Iveagh Markets in Francis Street, Meath Street & James’s Gate.

It was the magic of these people and places coupled with Cid’s father encouraging of him to watch the old “Black & Whites” that first triggered his interest into the world of Acting at a very young age, but it would be a long time after that, over 20 years that he would take his first steps to becoming an actor.

I had the pleasure to be a part of the Irish Film Academy’s Adult Troop Show which took place in The New Theatre in Temple Bar. It Ran for two nights on the 11th & 12th of December 2009 and all the cast got to perform Monologues both from American writer Eric Bogosian and various feature films, under Rachel Sarah Murphy’s direction I got to perform an Irish take on Eric Bogosians “American Dreamer”.

I had the pleasure to be a part of the Irish Film Academy’s training programmes since 2009 learning and mastering the art of many skills.

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