Michael P. Toner has been acting, directing, dialect coaching and specializing in Irish theatre for over 49 years. His recent roles include doing Phil Hogan in O’Neill’s MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN for Walnut Street Theatre (with national tour). Other WST credits include SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME!, CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER, 1776, SOMEONE WHO’LL WATCH OVER ME, and THE CARETAKER. Other Brian Friel plays include VOLUNTEERS, DANCING AT LUGHNASA, ARISTOCRATS, TRANSLATIONS and his one-man play based on Friel’s works, THE HUMOURS OF BALLYBEG. Recent roles include Knacker Woods in Marie Jones’s ROCK DOVES, Vladimir in Beckett’s WAITING FOR GODOT and the one-man play CROSSING THE THRESHOLD INTO THE HOUSE OF BACH by David Simpson for Amaryllis Theatre.

His one-person plays include BEGINNING TO END and NOHOW ON, based upon Beckett’s writings, AN EVENING WITH MISTER DOOLEY, drawn from Finley Peter Dunne’s writings, his own EVER YOURS, SCOTT FITZGERALD. Mr. Toner has performed for the Villanova Shakespeare Festival, the Carnegie-Mellon University Beckett Festival, the New York W.B. Yeats Society, the International James Joyce Symposium, the NYC “A Dublin Evening, the NYC Gotham Book Mart Bloomsday, the Meadowlands Irish Festival, the American Shaw Festival, and he is a founding reader for the Rosenbach Museum & Library Bloomsday Festival.

Michael and Patrick worked together most recently on a virtual project titled Eternal Warrior: a Theatre-Based Workshop Virtual Performance Over Zoom, Veterans' Day 2020.
This virtual production was created for both Veterans and a general audience. It was created under the aegis of Kimberly "Max" Brown and staff from the Philadelphia VA Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania Classics Dept. and the University of Pennsylvania Archeology Dept., who formed the Eternal Soldier group.

Eternal Soldier is archaeologists, classicists, historians, clinicians and veterans working together to present ancient material on war, warriors, and combat re-purposed for modern Veterans. We are a volunteer collaborative based at the Penn Museum working with Veterans from conflicts in Vietnam, Eastern Europe (Bosnia), Africa (Somalia, OND) and Southwest Asia (Desert Storm, OEF/OIF). We point out the uniqueness of contemporary Veteran experience, but simultaneously, we place that experience on a continuum. Our goal is to empower Veterans, and help them see that their experiences may differ in detail and technological features, but their emotional, spiritual and psychological experiences have a timelessness that unites all warriors.
Patrick Devine is a Disabled Veteran. He was born in Dublin, (Rep of Ireland) Eire, and immigrated to the United States in 1986, settling in the greater Philadelphia area until enlisting in the US Army in 1990 as a 12B Combat Engineer, and serving with the 10Th Mountain Division out of Fort Drum NY. Patrick also had a tour as an Army Recruiter and following, returned to the regular army where he changed his MOS Military Occupational Specialty to 38B Civil Affairs Specialist with USACAPOC United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command.

Patrick served in the Irish defense forces for a short time prior to coming to America. As soldiering was his calling, he joined the US Army, serving for 17 plus years, being deployed several times to combat zones and peace keeping missions throughout the world. Patrick medically retired in 2007. He now lives in Philadelphia with his wife and children.