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.

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.

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).