Career
His theatre credits include Language Roulette (Bush Theatre, London and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), Observatory (Peacock Theatre, Dublin) and This Other City (Grand Opera House, Belfast). Carville"s first feature film, Middletown, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in 2006. The film, which stars Matthew Macfadyen, Daniel Mays, Eva Birthistle and Gerard McSorley, was directed by Brian Kirk and produced by Michael Casey of Green Park Films.
lieutenant was nominated in nine categories at the 2007 Irish Film and Television Awards, including Best Film and Best Screenplay, with Eva Birthistle picking up the award for Best Actress.
Cherrybomb went on general release in the United Kingdom and Ireland in April 2010, distributed by Universal. His television credits include episodes of British Broadcasting Corporation Three’s award-winning Being Human, British Broadcasting Corporation Northern Ireland’s student drama 6Degrees and the first series of The Smoke, a major new drama series produced by Kudos for Sky One.
His radio credits include Regenerations (British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3), which features on the British Broadcasting Corporation Audio release Doctor Who at the British Broadcasting Corporation: The Plays, and Dracula (British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4) starring Michael Fassbender. His new play The Life and Times of Mitchell & Kenyon opened at the Dukes Theatre, Lancaster in April 2014.
He currently teaches Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London.
