BELLTABLE / LIME TREE THEATRE, Limerick
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Ann BlakeAnn Blake is a playwright, performer, director and musician. Working with companies such as Gúna Nua, Wildebeest, Beyond The Bark, Ann is also a member of The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra. Writing credits At A Loss (Fregoli) 2009 ‘Jerome Hynes Memorial Award’, TAN co-written with Marie Boylan, (Wildebeest Theatre). In 2017 Ann wrote and performed in The Morning After The Life Before (Gúna Nua). Winning ‘Best Production Award’ at London Ontario and Montreal fringes, it returned to Montreal for The Wildside Festival in January 2018. The show is currently touring nationally and internationally including the Galway Theatre Festival and Brighton Fringe.
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Mike FinnMike Finn is a playwright and screenwriter who holds an MA in Scriptwriting from IADT. Among his plays are Pigtown (Stewart Parker Award winner), The Quiet Moment, The Crunch, Shock & Awe, Ellis Island, Langered, One, We Are What We Witness, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Porkville, Life In 2 Syllables, Bread Not Profits and the musical The Unlucky Cabin Boy.
For television, Mike has co-written extensively with Pat Shortt including thirty six episodes of the IFTA nominated Killinaskully, seven episodes of Mattie and the pilot of Behind The Crystal Ball. Radio credits includ It’s A Worthless Life for RTE 1 and Little Bits Left Over for Limerick 95FM. |
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Brendan GriffinBrendan lives in Cork. His stage writing credits include The Leaving (Barnstorm) Home Talk From Abroad (The Everyman, Cork) Naked Photographs of My Mother (Tiny Plays 2, Fishamble). He has had two short films produced, Rolla Saor (Irish film Base / Irish Film Board) and An Duil (Irish Film Base / TG4). Brendan has had a number of radio plays including a teenage serial produced by RTE. His radio play The String was a P J O Connor Award winner.
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Michael Hiliard MulcahyMick’s first play WAVES which won the Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award at the Listowel writer’s week in 2010. He began his second play ‘Beyond the Brooklyn sky later that year. Beyond the Brooklyn sky was subsequently given a two day workshop as part of Fishamble’s new play clinic scheme and the play opened at Garter Lane Theatre in Waterford in September 2012. It then toured to Pavilion, axis, civic, and Draiocht theatres as part of Dublin Theatre festival 2012 and toured to fourteen venues nationwide in 2013
His one man play After Sarah Miles performed by Don Wycherley played at the Dublin Theatre festival in 2014 at the pavilion theatre, civic and Draiocht theatre. |
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Joanne RyanJoanne is a Limerick-based actor and playwright, has been working in the arts for over a decade and has performed extensively on screen and stage in Ireland. In 2014 she was nominated for an Irish Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Her debut solo show, Eggsistentialism, won a Lustrum Award, a Best Storytelling Bouquet and The Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has been performed to critical acclaim in Ireland, Scotland, Cyprus and London. She is currently working on a new commission from Belltable: Connect, In Two Minds, investigating bipolar disorder.
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DRAÍOCHT, Blanchardstown
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Caitríona DalyCaitríona Daly is a playwright from Dublin. She is a graduate from both The Lir's MFA in playwriting and the Royal Court's Young Playwright programme. Her plays have been produced in Ireland, England and Scotland. She was most recently nominated for the Fishamble New Writing Award at the Dublin Fringe Festival for her play Normal and an Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play for her play Test Dummy. She also runs the theatre collective We Get High with her artistic partner Caitríona Ennis.
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Jeda De Brí and Finbarr DoyleJeda de Brí is a writer, director and Artistic Director of Sickle Moon Productions. Co-Writing/directing credits include: TRYST (Project Arts Centre, Dublin Fringe, Nominee Fishamble Best New Writing Award, Published by Oberon Books), Procession (Irish Film Board, 925 Productions), Spectres, Tactics and Slippers (Theatre Upstairs Company in Residence - trilogy of plays), Trinkets (Carrickmacross Arts Festival), Chimneys (Nominated: Louis le Prince Award, LIFF, RTÉ Shortscreen). Freelance directing credits include: GPO 1818 (Fishamble) Fighting Words and The 24 Hour Plays (The Abbey Theatre) The Egg is a Lonely Hunter (Nominated: Little Gem Award, First Fortnight Award), All honey (Dublin Fringe & Bewleys Café Theatre) Mimes in Time (Edinburgh & Dublin Fringe 2016 - Nominated: Little Gem Award).
Finbarr is an actor, writer, and co-founder of Sickle Moon Productions. Writing Includes : TRYST (currently at Project Arts Centre), Trinkets (Carrickmacross Arts Fest 2015), Pitcher (Collaborations 2015), Spectres, Tactics and Slippers (Theatre Upstairs Company in Residence, 2014), Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll & Mister Hyde (Theatre Upstairs, 2013) and the short film Chimneys (Nominee Louis LePrince Award, LIFF 2013). Acting includes : The Grimm Tale of Cinderella (Smock Alley), Birdy (Abbey/Peacock, Dublin Fringe 2017 & Best Ensemble Winner), The Rivals (Smock Alley), The 24 Hour Plays 2017 (Abbey Theatre), Cirque Des Reves (Bewley's Café Theatre). |
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Barry McStayBarry studied at Trinity College Dublin and East15 Acting School in London where he now lives. His debut play Our Island (Mirari Productions, Dublin Fringe 2015) ran at the Project Arts Centre, earning five Fringe Award nominations, including Fishamble's New Writing Award and Best Production. Bir Tawil was part of the Druid Debuts at the 2017 Galway International Arts Festival . His writing has been long listed for the Bruntwood Prize, the Theatre 503 Playwriting Award and shortlisted for a Writers Guild of Ireland award. He has had work performed at the Abbey, Waterloo East, Old Red Lion and Arcola Theatres.
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Alice MurphyAlice Murphy is a 22 year old theatre maker and student, currently studying in Trinity College Dublin. Alice was a member of Dublin Youth Theatre from 2009-2015. Her previous performing credits include I’ve To Mind Her (Shaun Dunne and Brokentalkers) as part of Dublin Theatre Festival, BATSH*T (Brokentalkers) in Project Arts Centre, Big Love (Sugarglass theatre) in the Samuel Beckett theatre and Debris in Players Theatre. Alice was assistant-director to Dan Colley for The Aeneid (Collapsing Horse Theatre) as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2016.
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Ian TonerIan is a graduate of the Gaiety School of Acting. He previously co-wrote 'Boyz of Harcourt Street' (Rocket Octopus, Smock Alley) and 'How to Build Your First Robot' (Dublin Fringe 2014, nominated Bewley's Little Gem award). In 2016, he wrote the Smock Alley Christmas show, an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Snow Queen'. His play 'Animalia' (Dublin Fringe 2016) won the 2016 Fishamble New Writing Award and the BBC Radio Northern Ireland Award and was nominated for the Bewley's Little Gem Award and the Stewart Parker Trust Award for best Irish debut play.
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THE EVERYMAN, Cork
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Noelle Brown and Karen CoganAn actor since 1987, Noelle has worked extensively in theatre, film, television and radio. POSTSCRIPT, co-written with Michèle Forbes, premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival 2013 and was nominated for the Fishamble New Writing Award and the Bewleys Little Gem Award. It recently played at the Abbey Theatre (Peacock) in June 2017.
Foxy premiered at Project Cube in October 2015. Noelle wrote and co-created a movement documentary for theatre, with Oonagh Murphy called Creaking. It was presented as a staged reading at the Riverbank during the First Fortnight Festival and toured to seven venues as part of Bealtaine in May 2017. She was a writer on the 24 Hour plays and is currently developing a movement memoir called Waiting Karen trained as an actor at RADA. Karen’s play DRIP FEED was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award. DRIP FEED will be produced by the Soho Theatre in Edinburgh and London and has been commissioned for television development. Her first play THE HALF OF IT played the Dublin Fringe Festival 2017. It was nominated for 5 Fringe Awards and won the First Fortnight. THE HALF OF IT was the 2017 recipient of The Stewart Parker Trust Award.
Karen is shortlisted for the Adopt A Playwright Award 2018. She is the Hospital Club Theatre and Performance Emerging Creative 2018/19. |
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Lisa Carroll
Lisa is thrilled to be part of Fishamble’s A Play For Ireland scheme.In 2018 Lisa's play 'Cuckoo' will run at the Soho Theatre, produced by Metal Rabbit. In January 2018, Lisa undertook an 'Allotment' residency at the Bush Theatre developing a new play. In 2016, Lisa's play 'Snapdragon' was performed in the Abbey’s Peacock Theatre as part of the Future Tense commissions. Lisa was also part of an invitation group at the Royal Court led by E.V.Crowe, and has also been part of writers groups at Headlong and the Lyric Hammersmith
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John DoranJohn has BA (hons) in Drama Performance. As an actor, John has worked with Collapsing Horse, Devious Theatre, The Gate, The Abbey, Corcacorda, Bewley's Cafe and many more. He's devised many plays with companies like Willfredd Theatre, Collapsing Horse and Devious Theatre. Over the years, John has developed several educational workshops for The Abbey, Second Age and Young Irish Film Makers. Previous writing work includes; Standing Ovations, Late Arrival (RTE Arena 2017), Listen Up! (Schauspielhaus Wien, Vienna 2017), FOLK (Smock Alley's Scene & Heard 2016), Some Flood (Devious Theatre 2014), The Centre of the Universe (Show in a Bag 2014).
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Bridgid Galvin
Bridgid Galvin is a secondary school teacher from Cork. Her love of drama began many years ago with her involvement in the Dramat Society while studying English in U.C.C. She has had a number of one act plays produced in Cork Arts Theatre, one of which won the One Act Play Competition. In 2017 she was one of three playwrights selected for mentoring by Eugene O’ Brien for Scripts Playwriting Festival 2017. She is honoured and delighted to have been chosen for A.P.F.I. and looks forward to engaging with Fishamble and The Everyman Theatre over the coming months.
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Margaret McAuliffeMargaret McAuliffe is a writer and actor. She has performed in many theatre productions including Anna Karenina (Abbey Theatre) and Jezebel and Digging for Fire (Rough Magic). As part of the Show in a Bag initiative ‘16, she wrote, produced and performed in The Humours of Bandon which won the Bewley’s Little Gem Award and she was nominated as Best Performer at the Fringe Awards. Fishamble has since produced and toured The Humours of Bandon nationally and internationally including Edinburgh Fringe 2017 and at UNOFest, in Victoria, BC Canada in 2018. Margaret won the 2017 ZeBBie award for Best Theatre Script, was a recipient of the Pavilion Theatre’s Patron Artists’ Bursary 2017 and is delighted to be a part of APFI!
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LYRIC THEATRE, Belfast
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Vittoria CafollaVittoria is currently a resident HATCH artist at the MAC Belfast, with her theatre company, Paradosso. She was one of the Lyric Theatre’s New Playwrights for 2017. She was a member of Agent160 Theatre Company, touring work to London, Cardiff & Glasgow and Belfast in 2012, again at the Millennium Centre in Wales as part of Fun Palaces 2014. In NI she has written for Kabosh Theatre Company, Accidental Theatre and most often, Skewiff Theatre Company. Earlier this year Manchester-based Abooo Theatre produced her play The Replacement Child at The Hope Mill Theatre. Vittoria is also on the committee of Waking The Feminists, Northern Ireland, and on its subcommittee Researching Gender Parity in NI Theatre. She completed a MFA in Playwriting at The Lir, Trinity College, Dublin, in 2015.
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Seamus CollinsOriginally from Maghera, Seamus lives in Belfast and holds an MA in Creative Writing from Queen’s University, Belfast. Seamus has taken part in the BBC Writersroom 10 and had his work performed at Live Theatre, Newcastle and on BBC Radio 3. He has worked with Tinderbox Theatre Company and had work staged at the MAC. He recently completed the inaugural New Playwrights Programme at the Lyric Theatre. His play was given a performed reading there and a subsequent performance at Origin’s 1st Irish festival in New York at the American-Irish Historical Society in a co-production between Origin and the Lyric.
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Clare McMahonClare McMahon is an actor and playwright. Born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim at 18 she moved to London to train at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed in theatres across the UK and Ireland, including as Hermia in ‘Dream’ at The Almeida, and Kitty in Jimmy McAleavey’s ‘Unhome’ at the Mac. In 2017 Clare wrote her debut play 'Shakespeare's Women' selling out its run at the Lyric Theatre before touring NI. She is studying for her MFA Playwriting at the Lir Academy and is due to graduate in September 2018. She lives in Belfast with her husband Benjamin.
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Michael Patrick and Oisín KearneyOisín Kearney (director & writer) and Michael Patrick (actor & writer) run Pan Narrans Theatre in Belfast. In 2017 they wrote their first play, My Left Nut, through "Show in a Bag", run by Fishamble, The ITI and The Dublin Fringe. It was nominated for the best show under one hour at the Dublin Fringe and will tour throughout 2018. After My Left Nut they developed the script for Ghost Vault, an interactive Halloween experience created with Pan Narrans, Accidental Theatre and Amadan. Oisín also adapted Willy Russell's Educating Rita, setting it in Belfast for The Lyric Theatre's 2016 staging.
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Shannon YeeShannon Yee is an award-winning playwright and producer. Her perspectives as an immigrant, ethnic minority, queer artist with a disability living in NI are deeply embedded in her work. Her Reassembled, Slightly Askew aurally immerses audiences in her first-hand experience of nearly dying and her subsequent acquired brain injury. Reassembled… has received numerous accolades and has been touring the UK, Ireland, USA and Canada since 2015. She is a current ACNI Major Individual Artist Awardee for her project, Starf*cker, which grapples with astronomy, popular culture, social media and video projection mapping to tell the story of stellar autopsy.
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PAVILION THEATRE, Dún Laoghaire
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David HoranDavid is Artistic Director of Bewley’s Café Theatre, a freelance theatre director and a core Acting Tutor at the Lir National Academy. He’s directed new plays by established and emerging playwrights including Deirdre Kinahan, David Ireland, Phillip McMahon, Conall Quinn and Bryan Burroughs among others. He has also been co-writer on new work, including CLASS, Tick My Box!, Lady Susan (an adaptation of Jane Austen’s novella) and screenplays Belonging to Laura and The Importance of Being Whatever. CLASS recently played at the Peacock and was nominated Best New Play in 2017 by the Irish Times Theatre Awards. Both screenplays were recognised by IFTA.
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Shay LinehanShay Linehan’s plays have found audiences in more than ten countries.
While living in Zambia, he wrote and produced a number of stage plays that toured Southern Africa, including The Progressive Dinner Party, Headers and Footers, and The Angel Farm. He has had several plays produced by RTE and twice won PJ O’Connor awards. One of his radio dramas represented RTE in the Prix Europa in Berlin. Goin’ Straight won the Gold Award for best broadcast drama of 2016 at the PPI Radio Awards. His play, The Cant, won the inaugural McGuire Prize and was produced in America to critical acclaim. He holds the position of Playwright in Residence with The Irish Classical Theatre Company in Buffalo, New York. Shay’s adaptation of Minding Frankie is presently touring in Ireland, Britain and the United States. |
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Jody O’NeillJody O’Neill is a writer and actor. She graduated from the Bachelor in Acting Studies, Trinity College in 2003. Current theatre projects include For Want of a Nail and Eating the City.
Other writing work includes The Juniper Tree for the Abbey Theatre, It’s a Lovely Day, Bill Withers (Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland), Walking Man (Graffiti Theatre Company), and Celebrity, produced by Peer to Peer (short-listed for the 2011 Stewart Parker Awards). Jody currently works as a script and story writer for RTE’s Fair City. She is part of Rough Magic’s ADVANCE programme and is researching and developing making work that promotes Autism acceptance. |
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Ciara Elizabeth SmythCiara is a writer and theatre artist based in Dublin City. Her first three short plays Pour it out (2015), TRIANGLES (2016) and Pacemaker (2017) enjoyed sold out performances in Smock Alley, as part of Scene+Heard. TRIANGLES was also performed as part of Galway Fringe 2016, Knockanstockan and in the International Bar Dublin. Her most recent play All honey was presented as part of Dublin Fringe 2017 and was awarded the Fishamble New Writing Award. Ciara is participating as the writer on the Rough Magic SEEDS Programme for 2018/2019 and is Writer in Residence for The New Theatre for 2018.
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Lee Stafford
Lee Stafford is 20 years old and is from Phibsboro, in Dublin. He is currently studying Theatre Performance in Inchicore College, where he is just about to finish his first year. He is a very active member of Dublin Youth Theatre, and has been since 2013.
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TOWN HALL THEATRE, Galway
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Fionn FoleyFionn is a performer, composer and writer based in Dublin. He works frequently with music and musical theatre. Recent work includes Fierce Notions (Winner, Judge’s Choice Award, Dublin Fringe’17, nominated for Fishamble Best New Writing, Best Ensemble, Spirit of Wit), song composition in Half Light (Winner, Fringe First Fortnight Award ’16) and the one-man musical comedy Eamonn (from Menswear). Performing credits include Trainspotting (Olympia Theatre), The Messenger (Barnstorm), The Critic (Rough Magic), Grimm Tales of Cinderella (Smock Alley), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mouth on Fire), IFTA-nominated TV series EIPIC (TG4) and the upcoming feature film Dublin Oldschool (Element).
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Janet MoranJanet Moran is an actor and playwright based in Dublin. Selected Theatre work includes Ulysses, The Plough & The Stars, Juno and the Paycock (National Theatre, London/Abbey Theatre coproduction),Shibari, Translations, No Romance, The Recruiting Officer, The Cherry orchard, She Stoops to Conquer, Communion, The Barbaric Comedies, The Well of the Saints and The Hostage all at the Abbey Theatre, Car Show, Dublin by Lamplight, Everyday, Freefall and Desire under The Elms for Corn Exchange Theatre co. Film and television work includes Trivia, Love/Hate, Love is the Drug, T (RTE),Dublin Oldschool, The Bailout tv3 The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, Milo, Minim Rest, Bono and My Ex, Moll Flanders, Nothing Personal, Volkswagen Joe and Quirke (BBC).
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Marina Ní DhubháinMarina Ní Dhubháin works between Galway City, where she is a theatre researcher at NUIG, and Dingle in West Kerry, where she develops work with community theatre group Aisteóirí Bhreanainn. An Irish Research Council scholar, her research areas relate to memoryscape, documentary and oral history performance, with a particular focus on practice- led applications. Her Irish language theatre projects have focused on play with archival sounds, devising through translation from literary scripts and traditional story-telling. Marina is a member of the recently established theatre-making collective Garraí an Giorria who are developing a range of new works for the professional theatre, in Irish.
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Neasa O’CallaghanNeasa O’Callaghan is from Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon. She holds an MRes in Playwriting Studies from the University of Birmingham. She has been a 503Five Resident Writer at Theatre503 in London, a Writer-on-Attachment to the Oxford Playhouse, a Writer-in-Residence at North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford, and a member of Soho Theatre’s Writers’ Lab, London. Her plays have been performed at Norwich Arts Centre, Arcola Theatre and Theatre503, London; Old Joint Stock Theatre and the Outlet Festival, Birmingham; Oxford Playhouse and North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford; and Bank of Ireland Theatre, Galway.
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Hugh TraversHugh Travers is a playwright and screenwriter. Credits for the stage include Lambo and Clear the Air. He is a founder member of the White Label theatre collective and a former participant of Rough Magic SEEDS. His plays have been longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize, the Verity Bargate Award and the Papatango New Writing Prize. His screen credits include Trial of the Century, Red Rock and the upcoming feature film, The Matchmaker. He is currently developing a new play with the support of The Abbey Theatre.
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