Moone Boy 2: The Fish Detective

Chris O’Dowd

Chris O'Dowd is an actor, writer and director. He is well known for his starring role in Bridesmaids, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Rising Star Award and a Screen Actor's Guild Award for 'Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture'. He won the Irish Film and Television Award for 'Best Supporting Actor - Film'. Chris also starred in Wayne Blair's The Sapphires, which broke Australian box office records.

Chris starred in the TV series Family Tree and also lends his voice to Chris Wedge's animated film, Epic. He was also seen starring in Lena Dunham's HBO series Girls and Judd Apatow's This is 40.

Chris's other television credits include starring in the cult comedy series The IT Crowd, plus the critically acclaimed series Crimson Petal & the White.

Nick Vincent Murphy

Nick Vincent Murphy is an Irish writer from Kilkenny, who is now based in Los Angeles. In 2007, he got his first break as a writer on the acclaimed television comedy-drama series The Running Mate, which won 'Best Single Drama' at the Irish Film and Television Awards. In 2010, his first feature film, Hideaways, was produced. It won the Méliès d'Argent Award for 'Best European Film' at the Strasbourg Film Festival.

Aside from working with Chris O'Dowd on the Moone Boy books, Nick has TV projects in development with Aardman Animation and Tiger Aspect, as well as film projects in the US.