Editing Stephen Rea (section)

=== Stage ===
Rea's association with playwright [[Stewart Parker]] began when they were students together at the [[Queen's University Belfast]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lojek |first=Helen Heusner |date=2019 |title="Too Clever for Belfast"? Stewart Parker's Joyce in June |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/48670344 |journal=New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=77–94 |jstor=48670344 |issn=1092-3977}}</ref> In the late 1970s, he acted in the [[Focus Theatre|Focus Company]] in Dublin with [[Gabriel Byrne]] and [[Colm Meaney]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=From Angel to Devil: The Real Byrne |url=https://www.irishamerica.com/2023/03/the-real-byrne/ |access-date=23 November 2024 |website=www.irishamerica.com}}</ref> 

Rea helped establish the [[Field Day Theatre Company]] in 1980 with [[Tom Paulin]], [[Brian Friel]], [[Seamus Heaney]], and [[Seamus Deane]].<ref name =queens>{{cite web|title=Queen's prepares for graduation week |url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/TheUniversity/GeneralServices/News/ArchivesPressReleases-CampusNews/2004PressReleases/06-2004PressReleases/#d.en.5950 |publisher=[[Queen's University Belfast]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040815020023/http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/TheUniversity/GeneralServices/News/ArchivesPressReleases-CampusNews/2004PressReleases/06-2004PressReleases/ |date=June 2004 |archive-date=15 August 2004 |access-date=11 June 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Rea's friendship with American playwright and actor [[Sam Shepard]] dates back to the early 1970s, and he starred in Shepard's directorial début of his play ''[[Geography of a Horse Dreamer]]'' at the [[Royal Court Theatre]] in 1974. In 2007, Rea began a successful and acclaimed relationship with both the Abbey Theatre and Sam Shepard, appearing in ''[[Kicking a Dead Horse]]'' (2007) and ''Ages of the Moon'' (2009), both penned by Shepard and also both transferred to New York.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/27 |title=Ages of the Moon by Sam Shepard, 24 February – 4 April 2009 |publisher=[[Abbey Theatre]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003034554/http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/27 |date=2009 |archive-date=3 October 2009 |access-date=11 June 2011 }}</ref> Rea returned to the Abbey in 2009 to appear in the world première of [[Sebastian Barry]]'s ''Tales of Ballycumber''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/657 |title=Tales of Ballycumber |publisher=[[Abbey Theatre]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090706073527/http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/657 |date=2009 |archive-date=6 July 2009 |access-date=11 June 2011 }}</ref>

Rea starred in [[Enda Walsh]]'s 2014 play ''[[Ballyturk]]'' and portrayed Jordan in ''[[Out of the Dark (2014 film)|Out of the Dark]]'',<ref>{{cite news |url=http://bloody-disgusting.com/videos/3333472/scare-comes-dark-exclusive-clip/ |title=Scare comes from ''Out of the Dark'' in this exclusive clip |work=[[Bloody Disgusting]] |date=24 February 2012 |access-date=2 April 2012 |archive-date=25 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225003510/http://bloody-disgusting.com/videos/3333472/scare-comes-dark-exclusive-clip/ |url-status=live }}</ref> in which he co-stars alongside [[Julia Stiles]], [[Scott Speedman]] and Alejandro Furth.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/91102/first-clips-emerge-dark/ |title=First clips emerge ''Out of the Dark'' |first=Steve |last=Barton |work=[[Dread Central]] |date=26 February 2015 |access-date=26 February 2015 |archive-date=26 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226214405/http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/91102/first-clips-emerge-dark/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/81587/dark-2015/ |title=''Out of the Dark'' (2015) |first=Matt |last=Boiselle |work=[[Dread Central]] |date=27 February 2015 |access-date=27 February 2015 |archive-date=2 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150302161625/http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/81587/dark-2015/ |url-status=live }}</ref>