Joanne is an award-winning Limerick-based theatre artist, playwright and performer. Her critically acclaimed debut solo show Eggsistentialism premiered in Belltable and Dublin Fringe in 2016, was part of Culture Ireland’s 2017 Edinburgh Showcase and has since toured extensively with runs in London, Liverpool, Cyprus, Malaysia and Australia. Eggsistentialism has won the Lustrum Award for Best Festival Moment at Edinburgh Fringe, The Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award, The Sydney Fringe Critics’ Pick Award and was nominated for Best Performance at Melbourne Fringe. In 2018 it won the Stroller’s Network Touring Award leading to a 10-venue national tour in November 2019. In 2021 it was adapted for radio for RTÉ Drama on One.
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Joanne is currently an Artist-in-Residence in Ormston House and Theatre Artist in Residence in Lime Tree Theatre | Belltable. She was Limerick’s PLATFORM 31 artist in 2022 and was a Six-in-the-Attic artist at Irish Theatre Institute in 2021.

Sarah Jane Scaife, Artistic Director of Company SJ, Assistant Professor Trinity College Dublin, has spent many years exploring the theatre and prose of Samuel Beckett both nationally and internationally. She has conducted two main projects: Beckett in Asia (2002-2006) where she directed and researched with actors in Georgia, Mongolia, India, Singapore, Malaysia, China and Greece; Beckett in the City (2009-2016) which set out to place side-by-side the socio-historic wounds of Ireland’s past with the current social tensions within the city itself.  She directed Beckett’s prose piece Company  for the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2018; Beckett sa Chreig: Laethanta Sona for GIAF and DTF in 2021.

She is currently working on a new piece, Beckett sa Chreig: Fizzles 4 & Ní Mé, in both English and Irish for the GIAF and DTF 2024. She co-directed Wilder’s The Long Christmas Dinner for the Abbey Theatre in 2021 and 2022.

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.

Kevin trained at The Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin. He is based in Dublin and has worked in Ireland and internationally designing for theatre, dance and opera. His previous work with Fishamble includes Outrage, Spinning and Rathmines Road.

Other theatre design credits include Blackwater Lightship (Verdant), Bang (Michelle Read), Class (Abbey Theatre & Inis Theatre), The Odd Couple (Everyman Theatre), Driving Miss Daisy, Moll, The Snow Queen, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Jungle Book (Gaiety) His opera design credits include Flight (Opera Collective), Die Fledermaus, Kiss Me Kate with NI Opera, King Arthur, Vampirella, Saints & Sinners and Clori Tirsi é Fileno (RIAM) and Flatpack with Ulysses Opera.

Kevin’s dance design credits include Caged (Femme Bizarre), 12 Minute Dances (Liz Roche Co.), Coppelia (Ballet Ireland), Manefesto (Maiden Voyage).

Sinead has worked for many theatre companies over the years as costume supervisor and than as costume designer, including the Passion Machine, Gate theatre, Opera Ireland, and Company SJ. Sinead was a member of Ouroborous theatre company and was privileged to be Costume Designer for the RTE’s commemoration concert ‘Centenary’ 2016.

Her most recent credits are:
The Price (Gate theatre, 2023) Hangmen (Gaiety & Decadent 2023) Morrigan (John O’Brien and Cork Opera house 2022)The Lonesome West (Gaiety, 2022)The Long Christmas Dinner (Abbey theatre,Peacock stage 2021/22)Laethanta Sona (Happy Days) (Company SJ, Inisheer and DTF ’21)The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Gaiety, 2020) The Cripple of Inishmann (Gaiety, 2019) Dublin By Lamplight (Corn Exchange, Abbey Theatre, Galway Arts festival 2017, Project 2004) The Remains of Maisie Duggan (Peacock Theatre Sept 2016) Company; Beckett in the city: The Women Speak (Company SJ, DTF 2018, 2015, New York 2017,) Borstal Boy (Gaiety and Verdant, 2014); Homeplace (the Lyric Theatre 2009);Translations; Making History; Amadeus; Friel Festival Glenties (Ouroboros2004- 20010); The Nose; Lizzie Lavelle (performance corporation 2007-8)
Since 2004 Sinead has been course coordinator and lecturer in costume design at the Samuel Beckett School of Creative Arts, Trinity College Dublin.

Rob Moloney is a composer and sound designer for live performance. He studied music in University College Cork and pursued further studies in Orchestration and Advanced Mixing Techniques in Berklee. He has collaborated with many independent performance artists and theatre companies in Ireland including The Abbey Theatre, Luke Murphy – Attic Projects, THEATREclub, Ballet Ireland, and Painted Bird.

​Rob was one of the participating designers in the Irish pavilion at the Prague Quadrennial 2023.  He was nominated for Best Soundscape at the Irish Theatre Awards 2022 for his work on ‘Volcano’ by Luke Murphy – Attic Projects, which he is currently recomposing into a studio album.
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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.