Stephen Kearney is an Actor, Presenter and Writer.

Stephen studied acting at the Actor's Studio in London and LA to bring his experience to life on stage, TV and in film in a variety of roles. He is currently training in the Vakhtangov method in the Actors Studio in London.

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Stephen has been a chief executive of an international social action charity, business director, a politician and a radio presenter. He has worked with people from all walks of life:  Prime Ministers and paramilitaries, prostitutes and politicians, prisoners and police officers, anarchists and artists, corporate leaders, and people who struggle to survive and make sense of their worlds.

Stephen has directed professionals in theatrical and artistic performance to help people articulate their concerns and dreams in communities all over the British Isles. He has appeared on television.

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He is an experienced offshore sailor, boat handler - all crafts inland waterways, river and coastal.

He is a singer and has some basic guitar skills and has Advanced ECSPC Firearms in Action Training.

Stephen is an experienced mixed farmer, understands rural matters.  

He can competently ride a horse. He plays the Policeman, Politician and tough guy with ease. Stephen has a very subtle, yet powerful and charismatic presence which always thrills the audience.

He says “I’m passionate, confident and highly motivated. I have experienced comic, tragic and disastrous events in my life. As I develop my work now and in the future I will use these living memories to bring the characters I play into life."

Stephen is a full member of Equity UK & Spotlight and the Musician's Union

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Benjamin Cuttle - Concept

Benjamin Cuttle is written by Stephen with Julia Olsen and a new writing team for 2023. Cast and crew have filmed pre production work.

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The Overarching Story Line

Set in current times and located along and around the “linear village” of the Midlands canal system, South West Devon and Ireland, the TV series follows the life and progress of middle-aged Benjamin Cuttle as he ducks and dives in post-industrial austerity Britain where he lives, works and trades from a pair of beautiful canal narrowboats.

Benjamin Cuttle is a free spirited, gifted chemical engineer and perfume alchemist whose olfactory skill is well known. Fun-loving, principled, single and obsessively enthusiastic about the freedom of the waterways and things that smell, Cuttle has an extraordinary “nose” for fakery, liars and cheats as well as wine, whisky, perfume and intriguing women.

His dream is to re-create a cutting edge and ethical perfumery business and sustainable soap manufactory, and reclaim his legacy after devious corporate raiders stole his father’s world-renowned perfume business.  He is determined to restore the family name destroyed by shadowy Freddie Darnelli and associates and his cunning puppet Peter Fladbury, Cuttle’s schoolboy rival.The antagonists are involved in people smuggling, community manipulation and the arms trade and they use the perfume industry to feed their insatiable greed for power and wealth

With his beloved co-author and botanist colleague Coriander Grieve, energetic apprentice Maisie Mee, and mysterious geomancer Menzies Flintlock he stumbles into a journey to discover the essence of the perfect perfume that will reshape the Cuttle name and fortunes, and challenge the corporate business paradigm and corruption that he hates.

As Benjamin Cuttle’s legendary nose leads the intrepid foursome into the arena of shady corporate interests and organised activism and protest, the story bounces through their sometimes comic, sometimes dangerous adventures to investigate magic, mystery, danger and dirty dealings.  As they meet and tackle opposing forces with a curiously powerful mix of science, skill, extra-sensory perception, artistry, martial arts and joie de vivre, friends, strangers, tricksters and various bears guide, guard and reveal clues to the perfumers’ elusive elixir, the ultimately potent transformative grail.