Declan Hannigan is originally from Donegal but has lived in our fine city of Budapest for the last 22 years.
He lives a double life as an actor and a communications trainer. By day he runs Grund Essentials, the communications training company and by night he is the producer of the theatre show Russian Roulette running at Brody House at the moment.
Grund Essentials works with many multinational companies in areas like presentation, assertiveness, conflict and leadership. Basically trying to get everyone to be nicer to each other and figure things out! This comes in handy with his 3 children too.
Declan has acted in many of the productions that come through Budapest with actors like Jared Harris, Charlize Theron and Ciaran Hinds. In series like Wednesday, The Terror, The Witcher, The Martian, Atomic Blonde. He has a degree in science (useful as an actor) hence the interest in sci fi, he even managed to work for the European Space Agency for a series of educational films.
“I asked for a typewriter from Santa when I was 6 years old. The plastic typewriter produced sentences at a 45 degree angle to the page. I handed out those crooked sheets to my friends and made them perform a play. Now that I do this professionally, not much has changed.”
