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Fishamble: The New Play Company, in partnership with ESB Presents
Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future
 Selfish by Signe Lury 
A Journey by Eva-Jane Gaffney
Our Turn by Niall Murphy

Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future with ESB

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Graphics designed by Zoo.
For ESB, a brighter future starts with a low carbon future, powered by clean electricity. One where air quality is better, energy is sustainable and affordable, communities are thriving and where the future of the planet is safe.  With Ireland’s electricity system on a pathway to be carbon free within a generation, and with the growing adoption of electric cars, electric heat pumps and smart home devices, electricity will be a transformative force in the fight against climate change.  
 
‘Tiny Plays for A Brighter Future’ is an opportunity to give creative expression to all points of view in the transition to a low carbon energy future: to look at the choices we all must make to meet our future climate goals, examine how those choices will impact communities across Ireland, and imagine what we want the Ireland of our future to be, through 600-word Tiny Plays.  
Three Tiny Plays, consisting of just 600 words, have been produced as part of the Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future challenge, a partnership between ESB and Fishamble: The New Play Company.
 
The challenge invited writers to imagine what a brighter energy future means to them, and to capture that in a 600-word play. Over 350 submissions were received, and the shortlisted plays were selected by an independent panel of judges.


Read all 10 shortlisted Tiny Plays

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Created by

Written by Eva-Jane Gaffney, Signe Lury and Niall Murphy
Director Jim Culleton
Producer Eva Scanlan
Filmed & Edited by Jeda de Brí & Cal De Brí
Sound Designer Carl Kennedy
Sound Recordist Ross Carew
Lighting Designer John Gunning
Costume Designer Maree Kearns
Stage Manager Stephanie Ryan
Production Manager Eoin Kilkenny 
ASM / Props Sarah Purcell
Dramaturg Gavin Kostick
 
Graphic Designer Zoo Digital
Colour Grading by Cal de Brí 
Clapper Loader/Camera Assistant Daniel Culleton

Cast

Steve Blount, Martha Breen, Sorcha Fox, Eva-Jane Gaffney, Leah Minto and Meg O'Brien


For Fishamble & O'Reilly Theatre
Marketing & Development Manager Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan
Marketing & Development Intern Cally Shine
Production Coordinator & Covid Officer Ronan Carey
Director, O'Reilly Theatre Laura MacNaughton
Front of House Manager, O'Reilly Theatre Aoife McCollum
Technical Manager, O’Reilly Theatre Chris Griffin

For ESB Group

Strategy, Innovation, & Transformation Bevin Cody
Corporate Sponsorship Manager Máire Scully 
Customer Solutions Megan Reid 
Creative Experience & Communications Manager Grace Kelly

Meet the Team

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Jim Culleton
Director
Jim Culleton is the artistic director of Fishamble: The New Play Company, for which he has directed productions which have toured throughout Ireland, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US.   His productions for Fishamble have won many Irish and international awards, including an Olivier Award for Silent by Pat Kinevane in 2016, and the Irish Times Best Director Award for The Alternative by Michael Patrick and Oisin Kearney in 2020. 

Jim has also directed for companies including the Abbey, the Gaiety, the Belgrade, and RTÉ, as well as productions in the West End, and on Broadway.  Jim has taught for NYU, NUI, GSA, Uversity, the Lir, Villanova, Notre Dame, UM, UMD, and TCD.
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Jeda de Brí
Filming and Editing
Jeda de Brí is an award winning director and writer for stage and screen. She has staged work with The Abbey and Fishamble as well as directing and writing new plays at Project Arts Centre, Vault Festival London and The Lyric Belfast. She is currently developing feature films with Screen Ireland, Samson Films and Treasure Entertainment.​
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Cal de Brí
Filming and Editing
Cal is a freelance filmmaker and editor with a background in corporate and minimalist documentary style videos. He produces, shoots and edits, tailor made cinematic videos for a wide variety of people and businesses from Tourist Boards and Art Galleries to slick videos for the Hospitality Industry. He particularly specialises in 1-minute promotional films for social media. Known for his sharp editing, vibrant cinematography and drone skills. Cal has endless creative ideas and the ability to work with and produce them for the client. Cal studied Media production in BCFE specializing in cinematography.

Designers

Carl Kennedy-Composer/Sound Designer 
Carl trained at Academy of Sound in Dublin. He has worked on numerous theatre productions, working with venues and companies including Fishamble: The New Play Company, The Abbey, The Gaiety, Rough Magic, Landmark, Decadent, The Lyric Theatre,  Theatre Lovett, ANU Productions, HOME Manchester,  Prime Cut Productions, HotForTheatre, Speckintime, Guna Nua, Loose Canon, Peer to Peer, Siren, Broken Crow, Randolf SD and Theatre Makers. 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.
John Gunning - Lighting Designer
John is an alumni of Dublin Youth Theatre and The Lir where he learned how to make things up from nothing and then how to do it safely. As a lighting designer and a technician he has toured work to Australian opera houses and West Kerry parish halls. Since theaters closed John has run live-streamed script readings, hosted front of house on Zoom and gotten really into complicated ways of presenting on Instagram Live.
Maree Kearns - Costume Designer
Maree is a set and costume designer based in Ireland. She is a frequent collaborator with Fishamble having previously designed The Alternative, Rathmines Road, Invitation to a Journey and Maz and Bricks. She has designed sets and costumes for many of Ireland's other leading theatre companies including The Abbey Theatre, Anu Productions, CoisCeim Dance Theatre, Verdant Productions, The Cork Opera House and The Corn Exchange among others. Maree is also the course director for the MFA in Stage Design at the Lir Academy in Dublin.

Cast and Writers

Selfish
Written by Signe Lury
​Performed by Martha Breen and Leah Minto

Theo and Connie don’t know what to do about the future. They’re not even sure we have a future (they’d rather not think about the future at all).
Photos by Ste Murray
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Signe Lury
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Writer
Signe Lury is a writer, director, and actor, graduating this year from Trinity where she studied English & Drama. She's a co-founder of Gift Horse Theatre, and environmentally-conscious company with a focus on reimagining classic texts. Writing credits include We Are Not a Muse (Edinburgh Fringe) and Tess (Gift Horse). She veers between believing eco-theatre will change the world and believing the world is about to end.  
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Martha Breen
Theo
Martha Breen is an actor and theatremaker from Co. Wicklow. Recent credits include: Hecuba (Marina Carr, Rough Magic Theatre), Valhalla (MGM & Netflix), The Machine (Stoneface Films), Isolated Incidents (Workshed Films), Hothouse (Malaprop Theatre, Thisispopbaby). She graduated The Lir Academy in 2018.

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Leah Minto
​Connie
Leah Minto is an actor from Dublin. She graduated the Oxford School of Drama in 2019. Her theatre credits include Small by Holly Robinson, directed by Alice Malin in the Soho Theatre, London. She has also worked on a number of online theatre pieces throughout the poxy pandemic such as; What We Never Had to Lose by Dylan Coburn-Gray, Antigone by Colin Murphy and After Her by Alexandra Badea. ​
Read SELFISH by Signe Lury

A Journey
Written and Performed by Eva-Jane Gaffney

What do you do when you have nothing to sustain?  
Photos by Ste Murray
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Eva-Jane Gaffney
​​Writer and Performer
Eva-Jane Gaffney is an actor and voiceover artist from Dublin. Previous stage work includes HEROIN (2018), Rapids and Danny & Chantelle (Still Here). Screen credits include Wastewater, Rosie, Sing Street and Éirí amach Amú. She encourages people to speak what bits of Gaeilge they know no matter the level.
Read A JOURNEY by Eva-Jane Gaffney

Our Turn 
Written by Niall Murphy
Performed by Steve Blount, Sorcha Fox & Meg O'Brien

Three generations on a journey, towards a future that is both uncertain and inevitable. 
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Niall Murphy
​​Writer
Niall is a writer of short stories, advertising copy, one (tiny) play, and many, many emails. When not writing or - let's be honest - staring into space, he enjoys a dip in the sea and watching the birds in his garden. He lives in Glenageary, Co. Dublin with his wife, Ali. 
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Steve Blount
Man
Some theatre credits include; This Beautiful Virtual Village (Abbey Theatre) 14 Voices From The Bloodied Field ( Abbey Theatre) A Christmas Carol  (Gate Theatre) The Bystander (Junk Ensemble) King of the Castle (Druid) Minding Frankie (Gaiety Theatre) My Dads Blind, Ghosts, Monsters & Dinosaurs, Only an Apple, Savoy, Tarry Flynn , The Wild Duck, Judas of the Gallarus, She Stoops to Folly and The Pauper (The Abbey Theatre). Hooked (Evil Little Genius, Irish Tour), Far Off Hills (Nomad Irish Tour), Swing (Intl.tour) and Tiny Plays for Ireland  I & II (Fishamble: The New Play Company Kennedy Centre Wa., & IAC in NY), A Streetcar named Desire (Gate Theatre), Across the Lough (The Performance Corporation), Bogboy (Project Arts Centre & IAC, NY), I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (The Ark), Twenty Four (The Project Theatre), The Temple of Clown (Barabbas), The Night Garden, All My Sons (Northcott Theatre, Exeter), No Place Like Home (Tinderbox, Belfast),The Seagull (Corn Exchange),Oedipus (Gaiety), A Whistle in the Dark (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Melody (Tall Tales Tour), The Sin Eaters (New Balance Dance), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Blue Raincoat), One, Martin Assassin of his wife (Pan Pan), Dirty Dusting (Gaiety, Ireland & UK) Waiting for Lefty (65th Street Theatre, Seattle) and Blythe Spirit (The Theatre Factory, Texas).
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Sorcha Fox
Woman
Sorcha is a poet, writer, actor and facilitator. She has written 2 performance poetry shows, Who am Ireland? and Remember. She wrote her first Spoken Word play; For Rachel - 2 Squirrels, as part of the Home Theatre Ireland project in Draíocht, Dublin 2018 for the Dublin Theatre Festival. She has been working since on a longterm project with women in addiction recovery with Ashleigh House and Draíocht Blanchardstown called Amplify thanks to Create Ireland. In 2019, with the Hawkswell Theatre Sligo, she took part in a creative residency with Palestinian poet Rafeef Ziadah culminating in a performance on Culture Night 2019 of a new piece called Medusa with live original music from Dee Armstrong and Lughaidh Armstrong Mayock. Medusa is now being developed further with the support of Hawkswell Sligo. Sorcha is a member of the team that organizes PalFest Ireland, an Irish arts festival in support of Palestine. In 2017, she travelled to Jenin Refugee Camp in Northern Palestine where she completed a course in Theatre and Cultural Resistance with The Freedom Theatre. She is currently working as a writing facilitator on Amir Abualrob’s project Taa Marbuta supported by Create Ireland. Sorcha is very happy to be working with Fishamble again on the brilliant Tiny Plays series. 
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Meg O'Brien
​Girl
Meg graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting in 2016 where she was awarded the Gaiety Bursary and since has worked on a number of projects. Her theatre credits include: Shakers, Hostel16 as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival and Fishamble’s Inside the GPO. Meg’s film credits include Finding You which recently released across American and Australian cinemas.


Read OUR TURN by Niall Murphy

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      • Mustard
      • OUTRAGE
      • Pat Kinevane Plays
        • KING
        • Before
        • Silent
        • Forgotten
        • Underneath
      • The Treaty
      • Duck Duck Goose
    • 34 years of Fishamble
  • Artist Supports
    • 2022 Transantlantic Commissions Programme
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    • New Play Clinic
    • Send Us Your Writing
    • Fishamble New Writing Award
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    • Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future
    • Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future Challenge
    • Tiny Plays 24/7
    • #TinyPlayChallenge
    • Tiny Plays for Ireland and America
    • Tiny Plays for Ireland 2
    • Tiny Plays for Ireland
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