Amy Kidd is an actor and playwright who trained (in acting) at The Lir Academy, Dublin. Amy is a founding member of emerging Irish theatre company Anseo Anois Theatre, with whom she has worked primarily as an actor, but also as a collaborating artist on the writing &development of new plays and as a director.

Most recently, she played Sylviain the company’s production ofThe Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell. BREAKING is Amy’s debut play; she is delighted that Fishamble are producing its premier production, and over the moon to be working with such a wonderful team. She is currently writing her next play, for which she is grateful to be supported by The Arts Council, The Abbey, The Irish Theatre Institute and FRINGELAB.

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.

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.

Alyson studied Architecture at University College Dublin and trained at Motley theatre design school in London. She was a finalist in the Linbury biennial prize for stage design.

Designs for stage include: Breaking; In Two Minds Fishamble; The Lodger Oper Wuppertal; Do You Come From Gomorrah?; Static; Last Orders at the Dockside; Heartbreak House; The Risen People; Quietly; Perve; No Escape Abbey Theatre; The Last Moth; The Race; Wires, Strings & Other Things; Design It exhibition The Ark; Scorched Earth; Volcano – winner of Irish Times theatre award for best set design Luke Murphy / Attic Productions; Acis and Galatea; Yeoman of the Guard; L’amico Fritz; L’Arlesiana; Così Fan Tutte; Zaza Opera Holland Park London; The
Pull of the Stars; Our New Girl; Medea; Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living In
Paris Gate Theatre Dublin; Morrigan Cork Opera House / John O’Brien; Così Fan
Tutte, Iolanta, L’Enfant et les Sortilèges Royal Academy of Music London;
Midsummer, This Lime Tree Bower Project Arts Centre/Eoin Kilkenny; Thick As
Thieves Clean Break & Theatr Clwyd; The Lion in Winter English Theatre Frankfurt;
Tosca Icelandic Opera; Gulliver’s Travels; Sinners; The Nativity & The Gingerbread
Mix-Up; Mixed Marriage; Pentecost Lyric Belfast – Best Set Design, Irish Times
Theatre Award 2015; The Nest Lyric Belfast/Young Vic; Fabric – Edinburgh Fringe
First Robin Rayner/Marlowe Theatre; Macbeth Iford Arts; The Lighthouse Royal
Opera House; The Night Alive DTF/Lyric Belfast; Be Infants in Evil Druid; It’s A
Family Affair Sherman Cymru; Before It Rains Bristol Old Vic and Sherman Cymru.

Suzie is a Dublin-based lighting designer for theatre, dance and events. She has worked as a designer in Ireland for almost a decade.

Previous work with the Company:
Breaking by Amy Kidd as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2024
The Leap by Gavin Kostick as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2025

Other theatre credits:
Other theatre credits include Lovesong (Gate Theatre); Static (Abbey Theatre); YFEL (Pan Pan); The Playboy of the Western World, Super Bogger, Danty Dan, Tarry Flynn, Trad (Livin’ Dred Theatre Company); Lost Lear, The Wrens (Dan Colley & Riverbank); The Last Moth, The Making
of Mollie, The Race (The Ark); Afterwards, Absent the Wrong (Once Off Productions); Every Brilliant Thing (Abbey Theatre); After Taste (National Youth Theatre; Abbey Theatre); The Secrets of Primrose Square (Pat Moylan Productions); Minseach (Sibéal Davitt); Before You Say Anything
(Malaprop); Minefield, Charlie’s a Clepto (Clare Monnelly).

Associate lighting design credits include:
DruidO’Casey (Druid Theatre); Party Scene (Thisispopbaby).

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).