Dathaí Keane is a director and writer from Ireland. He began his career as an editor and worked for over a decade cutting projects for both TV and film. His first projects as writer and director were documentaries and he has written and directed a number of award-winning documentary series for Irish television.

In 2015, he created and directed a bilingual Western Drama series called An Klondike that ran for two seasons on TG4. The series has been distributed internationally and is available on Netflix under the title Dominion Creek.  Dathaí was awarded the IFTA for Best Director Drama at the 2017 Irish and Film Television Awards for his work on the second season of An Klondike.

In 2018, he co-wrote and directed his first feature film, the Irish-language comedy drama Finky. The film was supported by the Cine4 scheme and premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2019 where it won the award for Best Cinematography.

He went on to direct all three seasons of hit tv-drama Smother, a noir thriller made for RTE/BBC Studios. Smother has sold worldwide including sales to NBCUniversal’s Peacock in the United States, ABC in Australia, CANAL+ in France, and Alibi in the UK. In 2024, he directed all six episodes of Blackshore, a new six-part crime drama series for RTE/BBC Studios, and travelled to NZ as lead director on S2 of The Gone for RTE/TVNZ.

Dathaí is currently in post-production on S2 of Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale, a six-part supernatural drama series for AMC Studios/Monumental Television.