Michael P. Toner has been acting, directing, dialect coaching and specializing in Irish theatre for over 49 years. His recent roles include doing Phil Hogan in O’Neill’s Moon For The Misbegotten for Walnut Street Theatre (with national tour). Other WST credits include She Stoops to Conquer, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Conversations With My Father, 1776, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, and The Caretaker. Other Brian Friel plays include Volunteers, Dancing At Lughnasa, Aristocrats, Translations and his one-man play based on Friel’s works, The Humours Of Ballybeg. Recent roles include Knacker Woods in Marie Jones’s Rock Doves, Vladimir in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and the one-man play Crossing The Threshold into the House of Bach by David Simpson for Amaryllis Theatre.

Other Irish roles include Vladimir in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Krapp in Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Mr. Rice in Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney, Owen in the East Coast premiere of Friel’s Translations, Michael / Narrator in Friel’s Dancing At Lughnasa, Maurice in Conor Mc Pherson’s The Night Alive, An Irish Man in Tom Murphy’s The Gigli Concert, Trooper O’Hara in Sebastian Barry’s White Woman Street, Eugene O’Neill in Pat Nolan’s Midnight Rainbows, Doctor McSharry in Martin Mc Donagh’s The Cripple Of Inishmaan, among many others.

His one-person plays include Beginning to End and Nohow On, based upon Beckett’s writings, An Evening with Mister Dooley, drawn from Finley Peter Dunne’s writings, his own Ever Yours, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Mr. Toner has performed for the Villanova Shakespeare Festival, the Carnegie-Mellon University Beckett Festival, the New York W.B. Yeats Society, the International James Joyce Symposium, the NYC A Dublin Evening, the NYC Gotham Book Mart Bloomsday, the Meadowlands Irish Festival, the American Shaw Festival, and he is a founding reader for the Rosenbach Museum & Library Bloomsday Festival.

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