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.

Bryan trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre at Trinity College Dublin.

Noteworthy performances include My Foot/My Tutor with Articulate Anatomy (Best Male Performance at Dublin Fringe Festival 2004), Barabbas Theatre Company’s Johnny Patterson: The Singing Irish Clown (Irish Times Theatre Award Best Supporting Actor 2009) and regularly performs his one man show Beowulf: The Blockbuster which originated as a Show In A Bag and has toured Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, Australia, New York and was the number one success of the Edinburgh Fringe 2014 winning the STAGE Award for Acting Excellence.

Other notable productions include The President at The Gate Theatre with Olwen Fouèrè and Hugo Weaving, Act Without Words 2 by Samuel Beckett for Company SJ which performed at the Barbican in London and the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. He also regularly performs in a two hander adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with Aaron Monaghan nationally, at The Ark and The Pavilion for Christmas 2023. He played Quasimodo in Angela’s Ashes: The Musical in 2017 & 2019 and Lenehan in the returning production of James Joyce’s ULYSSES at The Abbey Theatre in Oct 2017 & July 2018 (Nominated for Irish Times Theatre Award Best Ensemble). Other recent productions include TARRY FLYNN with Livin’ Dred, (Nominated for Irish Times Theatre Award Best Ensemble), Beowulf : The Blockbuster, 14 Voices From The Bloodied Field and The Long Christmas Dinner at The Abbey Theatre in Dec 2021 & 2022 (Nominated for Irish Times Theatre Award Best Ensemble). He recently performed at DTF 2023 followed by an Irish Tour of The Boy Who Talked To Dogs by Amy Conroy as a SLINGSBY/Draiocht co-production which played at the 2021 Adelaide Festival and toured Australia for 2022 prior to its Irish 2023 tour. Bryan played DAD in Jody O Neil’s GRACE with Graffiti Theatre for Cork Midsummer Festival, Baboro Arts Festival For Children and in Dublin Theatre Festival.

As director Bryan has directed The Whispering Chair for Livin’ Dred in 2022, Fight
Night, and The Games People Play for RISE productions written by Gavin Kostick which
won Best Actor and the Bewleys Little Gem Award at Dublin Fringe 2010 and Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2013 respectively.

As Movement Director recent productions include Considering Matthew Shepard at the NCH, Fishamble’s DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE, Druid’s Beauty Queen of Leenane, Umbrella’s Glowworm, Fishamble’s Inside The GPO, Yew Tree’s Alone It Stands, Pat Moylan’s Stones In His Pockets, Tarry Flynn & The Skriker at the Lir Academy, BrokenCrow’s Levin & Levin, at the Abbey Fool For Love, The Wake and for Second Age Hamlet and Macbeth.

For RTE Bryan has appeared on RTE Jr’s The Beo Show teaching drama to young children, written four short stories for the Tell Me A Story series, written and performed a Christmas short story for the Cór Na Nóg Christmas Concert and directed Fight Night for RTE’s Radio Drama season. He has been cast in Series Two of Tim Burton’s WEDNESDAY for Netflix in 2024. Bryan has taught Physical Theatre at The Lir Academy of Dramatic Art, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Accademia D’ell Arte, Arezzo, Tuscany.

Colm is the technical and FOH manager of Bewley’s Café Theatre. He has designed lighting for most of the theatre’s in-house productions and many touring productions. He is also venue and technical manager for Bewley’s Café Theatre during the Dublin Fringe Festival.
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​In 2021 Colm was the creator and producer of Bewley’s Café Theatre inaugural WALKABOUT season – a series of outdoor performances set in Dublin’s historic parks, as part of keeping theatre alive during the pandemic. The season was nominated for a Special Judge’s Award at the Irish Times Theatre Awards.