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, format doctor, executive producer, or project consultant with writers and producers during the development 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).

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. Billy didn’t create GUSTO for fame or fortune but rather to challenge his comfort zone and highlight the vast opportunities available for individuals in their 3rd Act.

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Instinctively, Billy can’t avoid creating or backing commercial screen hits. In 2024, RTE’s Head of Specialist Factual Colm O’Callaghan commissioned a two-part docuseries, BALLROOM BLITZ, with U2’s Adam Clayton as host. You can find more information in the NEWS section. A feature-length version will be available in late October 2025, followed by pre-production on a feature documentary about the life, laughs, and loss of Sean Hughes, Ireland’s first rock star comic. Meanwhile, we are also honing various scripted projects—two screenplays, an hour-long TV drama, and a 30-minute sitcom—plus developing both stage and screen originals for 2026.

In August 2025, Billy accepted a part-time role (max 20 days a year) working with the Bealtaine Festival (May 2026-2028) as Performing Arts Curator. Bealtaine is part of Age & Opportunity = Lust for Life.

He is also 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. If we can help in any way, contact billy@sideline.ie Usual T&Cs apply.

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