Cormac McAlinden graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2025. His work in theatre includes Little Brother at Soho Theatre. Cormac McAlinden received the Society of London Theatre and Casting Director’s Guild Laurence Olivier Bursary in 2024.
Most recently, Cormac McAlinden played Harry Wheatley in Inter Alia at the Wyndham’s Theatre alongside Rosamund Pike.
Training
2022 – 2025: The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama – BA (Hons) Acting
Productions at Central
2024 – Duke of Buckingham – Richard III (Stephen Whitson)
2024 – Orestes – The Oresteia (Claudette Williams)
2024 – Sir Oliver Surface/Sir Harry Bumper – The School for Scandal (Paul Tomlinson)
2023 – Rutherford Selig – Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Amani Naphtali)
2023 – Stanley Kowalski – A Streetcar Named Desire (Peter McAllister)
2023 – Orlando/Amiens – As You Like It (Clarence Smith)
2023 – Kostya – The Seagull (Lawrence Evans)
Awards
The Laurence Olivier Bursary by the Society of London Theatre and the Casting Director’s Guild, 2024
Nellie Watson Scholarship, 2024 Embassy Scholarship, 2022










