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.

Maree’s career in set and costume design has led to her being a regular creative collaborator with many of Ireland’s leading companies and directors in theatre, dance, opera, and musicals. She has created worlds for performance on stages big and small across Ireland and internationally, in site-specific locations, immersive experiences and outdoor productions.

​Maree’s design work counts set and costume designs for The Abbey & Peacock Theatres, Anu Productions, The Ark,  CoisCeim Dance Theatre Company, Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Everyman Theatre, Fishamble Theatre Company, Cork Opera House, An Grianann Theatre,  The Corn Exchange,  Landmark Productions, The Lyric Theatre, and many more.
Maree has also worked extensively in television and film and is the course director for the Masters of Fine Art in Stage Design at the Lir Academy, Trinity College in Dublin. She is the recipient of the Tanya Moiseiwitsch design award at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in 2024, and a winner of the Irish Times theatre award for set design.

Eva  Scanlan is the Executive Director at Fishamble: The New Play Company.

Formerly producer at Fishamble, recent productions include Fight Night by Gavin Kostick (2025), Taigh/Tŷ/Teach, a trilingual co-production with partners in Scotland and Wales (2024), In Two Minds by Joanne Ryan (2023), Heaven by Eugene O’Brien (2022), Outrage by Deirdre Kinahan (2022), Duck Duck Goose by Caitríona Daly (2021), The Treaty by Colin Murphy (2021), Embargo by Deirdre Kinahan (2020), The Alternative by Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney (2019), Rathmines Road by Deirdre Kinahan (2018), On Blueberry Hill by Sebastian Barry (2017-2021), Inside The GPO by Colin Murphy (2016) and Fishamble’s award-winning plays by Pat Kinevane King, Before, Silent, Underneath and Forgotten, and many other productions on tour in Ireland and around the world.

Eva produced The 24 Hour Plays: Dublin at the Abbey Theatre in Ireland (2012-2026), in association with The 24 Hour Plays, New York as a fundraiser for Dublin Youth Theatre. She has worked on The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway and The 24 Hour Musicals at the Gramercy Theatre in New York. Previously, she was Producer at terraNOVA Collective in New York (2012-2015) and has worked on theatre productions, events and conferences at the Bushwick Starr, 59E59 Theaters, New Ohio Theatre, the New School, the Park Avenue Armory, and Madison Square Garden.

Sinéad McKenna is an internationally renowned designer working across theatre, opera, dance and film. She has won two Irish Times Theatre Awards for Best Lighting Design and a Drama Desk nomination for Best Lighting Design for a Musical.

Previous designs for Fishamble include Maz and Bricks, The Gist of It and Invitation to a Journey.
Her other recent designs include Walking with Ghosts, Straight To Video and The Approach (Landmark Productions), Maria Stuarda (Irish National Opera), Elsewhere and Faith Healer (Abbey Theatre), Dēmos (Liz Roche Company), Parade (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris) and Angela’s Ashes: The Musical (Bord Gais/Tour).
She has designed for many notable companies including the Gate Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Donmar Warehouse, Cork Opera House, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Rough Magic, CoisCeim, Gúna Nua, Decadent, Gare Saint Lazare, Corn Exchange, Thisispopbaby, Siren, Second Age, Performance Corporation and Semper Fi.

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).

Tara Doolan is the General Manager of Honest Arts Production Company and is the director, writer, and producer for original productions PUNT, Brian Boru: Education through Perfomance, The Mid-Knight Cowboy, and Waiting in Line which won the Cutting Edge Artist Award at the Toronto International Fringe Festival 2015 and was Nominated for Best Set Design at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2014.

Recent Design and/or Production Stage Management with companies such as Fishamble: The New Play Company, Sunday’s Child, Soho Theatre, Smashing Times, Beyond the Bark, UCH ltd. & RCK productions, Bigger Picture Projects, Assembly Festival, Viva Voce, Proms in the Park, European Powerchair Championship Opening Ceremonies, No Fit State & Feurza Bruta, St. Patricks Day Parade, Launch Limerick National City of Culture, Bottom Dog Theatre Company, Theatre at the Savoy, and Elemental Arts and Culture Festival.