Desc: A Guide to Becoming an Elm Tree: Directed by Adam Mann, Skye Mann. With James Healy-Meaney, Gerry Wade, M.J. Sullivan. Padraig (James Healy-Meaney), is a lonely and grief-stricken man who seeks the help of a mysterious carpenter names John (Gerry Wade), to help him build a coffin for his already dead and buried wife.