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.

Eva  Scanlan is the Executive Director at Fishamble: The New Play Company.

Formerly producer at Fishamble, recent productions include Fight Night by Gavin Kostick (2025), Taigh/Tŷ/Teach, a trilingual co-production with partners in Scotland and Wales (2024), In Two Minds by Joanne Ryan (2023), Heaven by Eugene O’Brien (2022), Outrage by Deirdre Kinahan (2022), Duck Duck Goose by Caitríona Daly (2021), The Treaty by Colin Murphy (2021), Embargo by Deirdre Kinahan (2020), The Alternative by Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney (2019), Rathmines Road by Deirdre Kinahan (2018), On Blueberry Hill by Sebastian Barry (2017-2021), Inside The GPO by Colin Murphy (2016) and Fishamble’s award-winning plays by Pat Kinevane King, Before, Silent, Underneath and Forgotten, and many other productions on tour in Ireland and around the world.

Eva produced The 24 Hour Plays: Dublin at the Abbey Theatre in Ireland (2012-2026), in association with The 24 Hour Plays, New York as a fundraiser for Dublin Youth Theatre. She has worked on The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway and The 24 Hour Musicals at the Gramercy Theatre in New York. Previously, she was Producer at terraNOVA Collective in New York (2012-2015) and has worked on theatre productions, events and conferences at the Bushwick Starr, 59E59 Theaters, New Ohio Theatre, the New School, the Park Avenue Armory, and Madison Square Garden.

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.

Laura MacNaughton has worked in the professional arts sector for over twenty years in theatre, film and Dance. She has worked primarily as a General Manager, Producer and Programmer. Laura has worked at a senior level in multiple arts organisations, these include The Gate Theatre, Dublin Dance Festival and The O’Reilly Theatre. Laura is a drama facilitator and director with Belvedere College Drama Department.

Director credits include Sherlock (2024) Bringing Down The House (2025) and HOPE SPRINGS (2026).

Laura currently sits on the Producers Working Group for the Performing Arts Forum. She holds a Science Degree from Trinity College Dublin and is a classically trained musician and Associate of Trinity College London in music performance.

Laura is the Producer at Fishamble: The New Play Company and previous Fishamble credits include In Two Minds (2023), Taigh Ty Teach (2024) BREAKING (2024), The Black Wolfe Tone (2025), The Leap (2025), REFUGE (2026) and For Dolores (2026)

Sarah is the General Manager for Fishamble: The New Play Company. She is originally from Canada. She was previously Executive Director of Dublin Youth Theatre where she produced shows such as this is a room… (Dublin Theatre Festival), The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd (the Project Arts Center), UBU devised with CN Smith from the Alfred Jarry text (Smock Alley) and co-produced Sleepwalkers (Dublin Theatre Festival) with PanPan. She is an associate producer on 24 Hour Plays: Dublin and was formerly the Chair of Youth Theatre Ireland’s board of directors.

Previous arts and stage management work include the Lambert Puppet Theatre and the Gate Theatre (Dublin), Shakespeare’s Globe (London), Edinburgh International Festival and the Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), and the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Toronto International Film Festival (Toronto).

Evie is the Assistant Producer for Fishamble: The New Play Company.

Her previous work with the company includes The Black Wolfe Tone, The Leap and The Navigator Project. She is Line Producer for Brokentalkers covering their international touring in 2025 and 2026 as well as new production The Mirror Stage. She has worked as a stage manager for theatre for the last ten years. She graduated with a distinction from The Lir Academy’s Stage Management and Technical Theatre course in 2016. She has worked as a stage manager with The Abbey, The Gate, Landmark, Rough Magic, Pan Pan, Collapsing Horse, The Local Group, Brokentalkers, This is Pop Baby and Livin’ Dred both nationally and internationally. Her previous stage management work includes MASTERCLASS by Brokentalkers (Dublin Fringe Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, RISING Festival, Sydney Theatre Festival), A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by Dan Colley (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, National Tour, Imaginate, Auckland Arts Festival) and Lost Lear by Dan Colley (Dublin Theatre Festival, National Tour, Aotearoa Festival.)

Allie Whelan is the Marketing, Outreach and Engagement Manager at Fishamble: The New Play Company. Allie has worked on Mustard, King, The Humours of Bandon, In Two Minds, Breaking, Outrage, Heaven, Fight Night, The Black Wolfe Tone, The Leap, The Navigator Project, REFUGE and For Dolores with Fishamble.

Allie Whelan graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2018 with a first class honours degree in Drama & Theatre Studies. Since then she has worked in marketing, communications and social media roles with Dublin Fringe Festival (2021-2024), Poetry Ireland, Landmark Productions (Straight to Video, Walking with Ghosts, Ulysses 2.2, and Krapp’s Last Tape), Pan Pan (The Sudden, The Patient Gloria, The First Bad Man, Cascando and History Play), Glass Mask Theatre (Describe the Night, Country Music, Mother and Child and Celebrity), The RDS Visual Art Awards (2021-2024) and Music Network Ireland (2022-2023 Spring Touring Season).

Allie has also directed a number of productions, Pool (No Water) by Mark Ravenhill, winner of Best Production, Best Ensemble and Best Sound Design at ISDA 2018, By the Bog of Cats for Kildare Youth Theatre and The Terms and Conditions of Me and My Ma by Conor Burke in 2019.

As well as her work with Fishamble, Allie also works as a designer, photographer and occasionally as a chef.

Róisín is a playwright and dramaturg.

Róisín was the winner of Scripts Ireland in 2025 with her play The Waves Have Ears Too. She is currently the playwright in residence at Birr Theatre and Arts Centre for 2026. She studied an MA in Dramaturgy at the University of Amsterdam, and holds a BA in English and drama from Trinity College Dublin.

Róisín served on the reading panel for The Navigator Project and for the Fishamble New Writing Award as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2025.While in the Netherlands, she was involved in establishing a professional association for dramaturgs (MoMo), and worked as a reviewer and researcher with Holland Festival and the Dutch National Opera for the 2025 Opera Forward Festival.

Róisín has completed an internship within the Abbey Theatre’s New Work and Literary Department, and first worked with Fishamble as an intern in 2023.