Eugene O’Brien wrote the play EDEN which debuted at the peacock theatre in 2001 and transferred to the Abbey stage later that year and then onto the Arts Theatre in London’s West end in 2002. It has been translated into Romanian, Italian, Catalan, Dutch and German. EDEN received the Irish Times Theatre Award, the Stewart Parker award and the Rooney Prize for Literature. Eugene adapted the play for the screen and the film, directed by Declan Recks, played many festivals around the world including Edinburgh and New York’s Tribeca Festival where it won best actress for Eileen Walsh.

Eugene also wrote PURE MULE, a six part series for RTÉ, winner of five IFTA awards and a two part follow up PURE MULE – THE LAST WEEKEND. Other work includes the THE NEST, SLOTH and NUMB (nominated for ZEBBIE AWARD) all for RTÉ radio drama and an adaptation of Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown trilogy for BBC radio drama.

Other Theatre work includes FALLING TO EARTH – MY SUMMER WITH BOWIE produced at the 2023 Dublin theatre Festival, SAVOY produced in the Peacock Theatre and THE GOOD HOUSE OF HAPPINESS, ELIZA’S ADVENTURES IN THE UNCANNY VALLEY, MESPIL IN THE DARK, all in collaboration with PAN PAN theatre company. Most recently HEAVEN, produced by Fishamble, debuted at The Dublin Theatre festival 2022 and completed a very successful run in the 59E59 theatre in New York. Heaven was named best new play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards and won a Fringe First at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe festival.​

Other work includes film comedy THE FLAG, starring Pat Shortt and co writing credits on TV3 drama RED ROCK and the film’s THE FOOD GUIDE TO LOVE and famine drama BLACK 47. Eugene’s novel GOING BACK was published by GILL in 2022 and TARRAC, a cine 4 Irish language feature film opened in cinemas in 2023.

Jim Culleton is the Artistic Director of Fishamble: The New Play Company, for which he has directed productions on tour throughout Ireland, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US. His productions for Fishamble have won Olivier, The Stage, Scotsman Fringe First, and Irish Times Best Director awards.

Jim has also directed for the Abbey, the Gaiety, the Belgrade, 7:84 Scotland, Project, Amharclann de hÍde, Tinderbox, Passion Machine, the Ark, Second Age, Dundee Rep, CoisCéim/Crash Ensemble/GIAF, Frontline Defenders, Amnesty International, Little Museum of Dublin, Fighting Words, Soho Theatre, Scripts Festival, and Baptiste Programme.  He has directed audio plays for Audible, BBC, RTÉ Radio 1, and RTÉ lyric fm. He has directed for Vessel and APA (Australia), TNL (Canada), Solas Nua, Mosaic, and Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Odyssey (LA), Origin, Irish Arts Center, New Dramatists, and 59E59 (Off-Broadway), as well as for Trafalgar Theatre Productions on the West End, and IAC/Symphony Space on Broadway.  Jim has taught for NYU, NUI, GSA, Uversity, the Lir, Villanova, Notre Dame, UM, UMD, JNU, and TCD.

​​Zia Bergin-Holly is an award winning lighting and set designer working internationally in theatre, dance, opera and live music events.

Her stage set and lighting designs include: Embargo (Fishamble), Solar Bones (Rough Magic & Kilkenny Arts Festival); The Misfits (Corn Exchange); User not found (Dante or Die) and They Called her Vivaldi (Theatre Lovett). She also designed the set for the Olympia Theatre, Dublin performances of Grace Jones concerts for Bloodlight and Bami by Blinder Films.

Recent lighting designs include The Border Game (Prime Cut and Lyric Theatre Belfast), Skin Hunger (Dante Or Die), Two (Hull Truck Theatre), Meat (Theatre503), Flights (One Duck Theatre), Promises Promises (Centrál Színház Budapest), Top Hat (Silver Blue Entertainment), Bread not Profits (Gúna Nua), Apologia and The Lion in the Winter (English Theatre Frankfurt).

Saileóg O’Halloran ‘s Theatre credits include: The Wakefires (ANU Productions & Cork Midsummer), Dances Like a Bomb (Junk Ensemble), Duck Duck Goose (Fishamble), The Secret Space (ANU Productions), To The Lighthouse (Cork Everyman & Hatch Productions), The Great Hunger (Abbey Theatre), The Fall of the Second Republic (Abbey Theatre & Corn Exchange), Danse Macabre (Macnas 2019), Becketts Room (Dead Centre), The Alternative (Fishamble), The Bluffers Guide to Suburbia (Cork Midsummer & DTF 2019), The Anvil (ANU & Manchester International Festival),
The Misfits (Corn Exchange), Trial of the Century’s (Dublin Fringe 2018), Macnas 2018, Copperface Jacks the Musical (Verdant), GPO1818 (Fishamble), The Half of It (MOMMO), The Shitstorm (Dublin Fringe), The Seagull (Corn Exchange) To Hell In A Handbag (Show In A Bag/Tiger Dublin Fringe), Town is Dead (Peacock Theatre), Embodied (Dublin Dance Festival), Shibboleth (Peacock Theatre), Chekhov’s First Play (Dead Centre), Thirteen, Irish Times Judges Special Award (ANU Productions) and Wake (Chamber Made Opera).

Sinéad McKenna is an internationally renowned designer working across theatre, opera, dance and film. She has won two Irish Times Theatre Awards for Best Lighting Design and a Drama Desk nomination for Best Lighting Design for a Musical.

Previous designs for Fishamble include Maz and Bricks, The Gist of It and Invitation to a Journey.
Her other recent designs include Walking with Ghosts, Straight To Video and The Approach (Landmark Productions), Maria Stuarda (Irish National Opera), Elsewhere and Faith Healer (Abbey Theatre), Dēmos (Liz Roche Company), Parade (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris) and Angela’s Ashes: The Musical (Bord Gais/Tour).
She has designed for many notable companies including the Gate Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Donmar Warehouse, Cork Opera House, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Rough Magic, CoisCeim, Gúna Nua, Decadent, Gare Saint Lazare, Corn Exchange, Thisispopbaby, Siren, Second Age, Performance Corporation and Semper Fi.

Carl has worked on numerous theatre productions, working with venues and companies including Fishamble: The New Play Company, The Gaiety, The Abbey, The Gate, Rough Magic, Landmark, Decadent, The Lyric Theatre, Theatre Lovett, ANU Productions, HOME Manchester,  Prime Cut Productions, HotForTheatre, Speckintime, Guna Nua and Peer to Peer among others. He has been nominated three times for the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Sound Design.

He also composes music and sound design for radio, TV and video games. He was composer and sound designer for Mr Wall on RTÉJr which was shortlisted for an IMRO Radio Award in the 2018 drama category. Game titles include Curious George, Curious about Shapes and Colors, Jelly Jumble, Too Many Teddies, Dino Dog and Leonardo and His Cat. TV credits include sound design for 16 letters (Independent Pictures/RTE) and SFX editing and foley recording for Centenary (RTE).

Gavin Kostick is a playwright, literary manager and independent dramaturg.
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His works have been produced nationally and internationally. Favourite works for Fishamble include The Ash Fire, The Flesh Addict, The End of The Road and Invitation to a Journey (with CoisCeim and Crash Ensemble). The Leap is Gavin’s first play for children.
Further works include This is What We Sang for Kabosh, Fight Night, The Games People Play and At the Ford for Rise Productions and Gym Swim Party with Danielle Galligan in co-production with the O’Reilly Theatre. He wrote the libretto for the opera The Alma Fetish composed by Raymond Deane, performed at the National Concert Hall. As a performer he performed Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: Complete, a six hour show for Absolut Fringe, Dublin Theatre Festival and the London Festival of Literature at the Southbank.
Gavin is currently the literary manager of Fishamble: The New Play Company, a tutor in playwriting and dramaturgy in both The Lir Academy and Trinity College Dublin as well as being a core mentor on the Tenderfoot Transition Year programme for young writers at the Civic Theatre.
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Particular favourite projects that Gavin has initiated and delivered with Fishamble include Show in a Bag (with Dublin Fringe and The Irish Theatre Institute), The New Play Clinic, The Dublin Fringe New Writing Award, Tiny Plays for Ireland and A Play for Ireland.
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Both for Fishamble, and as an independent dramaturg, Gavin’s projects and works he has supported have gained significant national and international award recognition including amongst others Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, BBC Stewart Parker Trust, Zebbie Awards, Dublin Fringe Awards, Business to Arts, Olivier, Scotsman Fringe First, Herald Angel and Archangel and New York Critics’ Pick.

His own plays have also received similar national and international award recognition. Gavin has recently completed a new version of The Odyssey, supported by Kilkenny Arts Festival, ClassicsNow.