Since 2018 CCO  Billy McGrath has been winding down Sideline Productions and post-COVID Billy has decided to ‘get off the road’ to enjoy life, family, and the future. Sideline is now solely a content creation company with one employee! This highly experienced content creator, producer, and director is currently focused on developing scripted material and feature-length documentaries, while also working as a script editor, doctor, executive producer, or project consultant with writers and producers during the development, production, or post-production phases.

He has held the Writer’s Tax Exemption Certificate since 2017, is immersed in the 3rd Act, and has completed an MA in Screenwriting (IADT). He is happy to work ‘on spec’ if the idea is strong enough and can personally fund any project up to a Bible, Treatment, Sizzle, 1st Draft, or Pilot if required, before pitching directly to an established network of commissioners (including those in the UK), international agents, distributors, directors, and producers. Usual T&Cs apply.

During 2022 a new live stage memoir, GUSTO with Billy Magra, was workshopped in Listowel, Galway, and Limerick, with a week’s run in Dublin’s Project Arts Theatre in April 2023, before a special edited show on Sunday, August 6th, at the Curious Minds Tent at the brilliant All Together Now Festival in Co. Waterford. GUSTO wasn’t created for fame or fortune but rather to bring this OAP out of his comfort zone and promote the idea of the huge opportunities out there for people in their 3rd Act.

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Instinctively, Billy can’t avoid creating or backing commercial screen hits. In 2024, RTE commissioned a two-parter BALLROOM BLITZ, with U2’s Adam Clayton presenting. Billy wrote, produced and directed. You can find further details in the NEWS section. A feature-length version will be available in late June 2025 and then straight into pre-production on a feature documentary about the life, laughs, and loss of Ireland’s first rock star comic, Sean Hughes, while also refining a slate of scripted projects that includes two screenplays, an hour-long TV drama, and a 30-minute sitcom.

For co-production queries, comedy workshops, teaching queries or just to say hi …

Contact billy@sideline.ie

In the meantime, enjoy the wide range of shows we have produced since 2005.