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Alan Bradley is an award-winning Irish documentary filmmaker, writer and actor. In 2024, Alan won the Young Director Award for Documentary at Cannes and was selected as one of Broadcast’s Hotshots 2025 and a ‘One To Watch’ 2024/25 by the TV Foundation UK.
Alan directed and produced the groundbreaking Radharc award-winning documentary Patrick: A Young Traveller Lost, highlighting the crisis of alarmingly high suicide rates in the Irish Traveller community through the devastating story of 12-year-old Patrick McDonagh from Finglas, Dublin, cited as a ‘must watch’ by President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins.

In 2025, Alan directed and produced the smash-hit documentary series Bad Nanny for RTÉ and BBC. The critically acclaimed series stayed at No. 1 on the RTÉ Player for two weeks, as well as becoming one of the most-watched documentaries of the year on Irish television. Bad Nanny subsequently trended in the top five documentaries on Amazon Prime in America. Other credits include ‘The Girl in the Water: Kelly Marie Lynch’ (RTÉ), ‘STALKED’ (VMTV), ‘Anorexia, My Family and Me’ (RTÉ) and ‘Invisible Men: Ireland’s Incels’ (RTÉ).

In 2026, Alan published his first book, ‘Unmasking Samantha Cookes: The Many Lives of a Serial Fraudster’.