Eva O’Connor is an award-winning writer and performer from Ogonnelloe Co. Clare. She makes work for stage and screen and runs Sunday’s Child theatre company with Hildegard Ryan. In 2018 Eva adapted her play Overshadowed as a short form television series for BBC Three, and it went on to win the Mind Media Award for Best Drama. In 2018/2019 her play Maz and Bricks, produced by Fishamble and directed by Jim Culleton, toured in the run up and aftermath of the Repeal the 8th referendum. In 2022 Eva adapted her Scotsman Fringe First winning play Mustard, co-produced by Fishamble, as a short film for RTÉ Storyland. In 2024, Eva was a writer on Fishamble’s trilingual project Taigh, Tŷ, Teach which toured to Ireland, Scotland and Wales.  And with her play Chicken, co-written by Hildegard Ryan, Eva won the Filipa Bragança Award for best solo female identifying performer at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023, Best Performer at the Dublin Fringe 2024, and won Pick of the Fringe Award at Adelaide Fringe 2025. The Kerryman,  Eva’s second play for Glass Mask Theatre premiered in Dublin in Spring 2026.  Eva was selected for the BBC Writer Spotlight programme 2025, and has several tv and film projects in development. Eva also founded Ireland’s first ever climate arts festival, Future Limerick, with Hildegard Ryan.

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.

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).

Denis has previously worked with The Abbey Theatre, The Gate Theatre, Fishamble, Rough Magic, CoisCéim, Junk Ensemble, Corn Exchange, Northlight Theatre, Chicago and Beijing Children’s Art Theatre. He won the Irish Times theatre award for Best Soundscape in 2011 and 2019. He was also a nominee in 2015 for Junk Ensemble and Brokentalker’s ‘It Folds’. Denis was an associate artist with the Abbey in 2008 and was a participant on Rough Magic’s ADVANCE programme in 2012.

​Composition for Film and Television includes the feature films One Night In Millstreet (Fastnet Films) Older than Ireland (Snack box Films), His and Hers (Venom Film), The Irish Pub (Atom Films) and the animation series Will Sliney’s Storytellers (Fastnet Films).

Nóra Ní Anluain Fay is a performer, choreographer and the director of NAF Dance. She graduated from Fontys University in the Netherlands and her work lies in the bridge between dance and theatre fusing music, text and film. Resulting in theatrical explosions that highlight the magic in the mundane and marry sincerity and slapstick.

Her first piece, ‘Let Them Eat Cake,’ was selected to represent the Netherlands in Szoloduo Festival 2022, Budapest. This cemented the tone and movement language of the work she makes and produces through NAF Dance.

Her debut production which she choreographed and co-starred in, ‘Ham Sandwiches and Discipline,’ toured festivals nationally and internationally in 2024 and was nominated for 3 Dublin Fringe Awards. It had a summer Fit-Up Festival tour and a National Tour in autumn 2025.

Her film work includes starring in and choreographing Cléa van der Grijn’s ‘The Disembodied Adventures of Alice,’ and ‘Elisa in Wonderland,’ which have travelled to and been awarded at international film festivals.

She is currently developing her next pieces, an Irish language work in collaboration with an Taibhdhearc theatre and ‘Please Break my Heart,’ with Uillinn Arts Centre which she’ll create and perform in.

Her camp disco productions have toured across Europe unleashing infectious joy and welcoming whole new audiences to dance.

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.

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.