Fishamble Theatre Company

Fishamble Theatre Company

 

‘Jim Culleton’s work with new playwrights at Fishamble has detonated a controlled explosion of fresh talent.’

Fintan O’ Toole

Fishamble

Fishamble staff and board

Staff

Artistic Director
Jim Culleton

General Manager
Orla Flanagan

Acting General Manager 
Marketa Puzman

Literary Officer 
Gavin Kostick

Board  
List of members

                   

Jim Culleton –Artistic Director        
Jim Culleton is the Artistic Director of Fishamble for which he most recently directed Noah and the Tower Flower by Sean McLoughlin, Forgotten by Pat Kinevane, short plays for Whereabouts (Irish Times Theatre Award winner) and Monged by Gary Duggan (Stewart Parker Trust Award winner) in Liverpool and as a staged reading in New York.  He has also directed for Amnesty International, Pigsback, 7:84 (Scotland), Project Arts Centre, Amharclann de hIde, Tinderbox, The Passion Machine, The Ark, Second Age, The Abbey/Peacock, Semper Fi, TNL Canada, Scotland’s Ensemble @ Dundee Rep, Draiocht, Barnstorm, TCD School of Drama, Origin (New York) and RTE lyric fm.  His productions have won and been nominated for numerous awards, including Irish Times Theatre Awards, Entertainment & Media Awards, In Dublin Theatre Awards and TMA Awards. He co-edited Contemporary Irish Monologues and edited Fishamble/Pigsback: First Plays both for New Island Books and has edited/contributed to books for Carysfort Press, Ubu and Amnesty International.  He will next direct a production of Monged for the Belgrade Theatre.

 

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Orla Flanagan – General Manager
Orla has previously produced Fishamble’s productions of Noah and the Tower Flower by Sean McLoughlin, The Gist of It by Rodney Lee, Forgotten by Pat Kinevane, a revival tour of Monged by Gary Duggan and the site-specific, multi-writer production of Whereabouts (The Irish Times Theatre Award winner 2006).  Prior to this, she was the Literary Officer at the Abbey Theatre since 2001.  She has also worked as Marketing Administrator at the National Concert Hall and has produced a number of shows for the Dublin Fringe Festival.  In 2005, she worked as a trainee dramaturg at the Sundance Theatre Lab, Utah, and the Schaubuhne’s Festival of International New Drama 05, Berlin. Orla has recently been accepted to the Fellowship programme for arts managers at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., a ten month programme from September ‘07, for which she has also been awarded the Diageo Sponsored Fulbright Award for the Performing and Visual Arts.

 

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Marketa Puzman-Acting General Manager
Marketa has 10 years experience of working in film and television, both in the art and production departments in the Czech Republic. During her time in the film business Marketa worked on 17 feature films - credits include Hart’s War, Les Misérables, Last Holiday, Van Helsing; and many television projects including BBC’s The Scarlet Pimpernel series. Since relocating from Prague to Dublin Marketa has worked in performing arts management, initially in contemporary dance as General Manager with Dance Theatre of Ireland before joining Fishamble, for which she has produced The Pride of Parnell Street.  

 

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Gavin Kostick-Literary Officer
As Literary Officer at Fishamble Gavin works with new writers for theatre through script development, readings and a variety of courses. Gavin is also an award-winning playwright. He has written over a dozen plays which have been produced in Dublin, on tour around Ireland, the UK, New York, Philadelphia and Romania. His most recent works are Olive Skin Blood Mouth for the Gaiety School of Acting at Project Arts Centre and An Image for the Rose outdoors for Whiplash Theatre Company. He is currently working on new plays for Fishamble and Whiplash, and an opera with composer Raymond Deane for RTE Lyric.

 

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Board                                     
Eoin Kennelly (Chair)
Siobhan Maguire
Stuart McLaughlin
Jo Mangan,
Vincent O’Doherty
Andrew Parkes


Eoin Kennelly - Formerly with Coopers & Lybrand, now Director of Kennelly and Twomey.

Andrew Parkes - Patent and Trade Mark Attorney; Consultant to Tomkins & Co.

Siobhan Maguire - Theatre and television producer.

Jo Mangan - Freelance director and Artistic Director of The Performance Corporation. She was General Manager of Fishamble for 4 years.


Stuart McLaughlin – Chief Executive of Business2Arts. He was previously Business Development Director with Accenture, Head of Outsourcing with CapGemini and a Commercial Director with Fujitsu in the UK. He also serves as a board member of The Common Ground.


Vincent O’Doherty – Non-executive Director, Superquinn; Deputy Chairman, Heiton Holdings plc., Chairman IBEC EU Committee. He also serves as Vice Chairman on the Board of the British Irish Association and Co-Operation North / Co-Operation Ireland.

 

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