Curtis-Lee Ashqar

Curtis-Lee is a graduate of the Three Year Bachelor in Acting (Hons) from The Lir Academy.

His most recent castings include Dublin Theatre Festival’s Breaking by Amy Kidd, in which he played both Sam and Charlie, and Dave Hyndman in the Good Vibrations musical at The Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Prior to this, Curtis-Lee and company won Best Production at Dublin Fringe Festival 2022 for Carys Coburns’ Absent the Wrong at the Abbey Theatre on the Peacock Stage. After this, Curtis-Lee worked briefly with Druid in their play reading series ‘Stars & Stripes.’

Curtis-Lee has recently finished filming on Blue Lights for BBC NI. Other recent credits include the role of Xavi in the TV Series Hope Street for BBC NI and on stage at the Theatre Royal Stratford East playing the role of Laurence in Conor McPherson’s Shining City, directed by Nadia Fall. He has recently been involved in Ourselves Alone, a short film produced by Stockwell Studios, and worked on Gilgamesh with theatre company Macnas, playing the title role.

Curtis-Lee also appeared in the role of Jo in Peat by Kate Heffernan and directed by Tim Crouch at The Ark, Dublin.

Other screen credits include roles in Game of Thrones (Season 5), directed by Michael Slovis, Into the Badlands for AMC, Torvill & Dean for ITV, the lead role of Ahmet in Murat Asker’s short film The Gift, and the short film Happyish (dir: Juanita Wilson). Some of Curtis-Lee’s credits at The Lir include The Skriker in The Skriker (dir: Tom Creed), Vaguin in Children of the Sun (dir: Lynne Parker), Three Winters (dir: David Horan), The Garden (devised with Mikel Murfi), and Damus in Portia Coughlan (dir: Annabelle Comyn).