Abie Philbin Bowman

Abie Philbin Bowman
performing Eco-Friendly Jihad
Born	Dublin
Nationality	Irish
Notable works and roles	Jesus: The Guantanamo Years, Eco-Friendly Jihad, Sex, Lies & The KKK, Pope Benedict: Bond Villain, Irish Pictorial Weekly (co-writer), Developing the Country as a Hole
Website	www.AbieLaughs.com

Abie Philbin Bowman is an Irish comedian and journalist. His One Man Shows include Jesus: The Guantanamo Years, Eco-Friendly Jihad and Developing the Country as a Hole. He has worked on RTÉ programmes, including Arena, CAKE, Callan's Kicks and Irish Pictorial Weekly.

Abie Philbin Bowman is the son of broadcaster John Bowman and the brother of deceased journalist Jonathan Philbin Bowman. With debating partner, Manus de Barra, Abie won the Leinster Schools, National Schools and International Observer Mace debating competitions in 2000. In 2002 he was elected as a Scholar of Trinity College Dublin.

He wrote a regular column for The Dubliner magazine from 2001 to 2008.

Abie Philbin Bowman is the writer/director/performer of Jesus: The Guantanamo Years, which was staged in 2006 in the Project Arts Centre (Temple Bar, Dublin) and the Underbelly (Cowgate, Edinburgh) as part of the Edinburgh Fringe. The show was widely reported in the media and sold out - The Scotsman referred to him as "the face of this year's Fringe". In 2007, the show toured to London's West End, Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway Theater in Boston, theatres across Ireland and the World Performing Arts Festival in Lahore, Pakistan. Performances in Belfast in Autumn 2007, were boycotted by Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party.