Co-production of four new plays with RTÉ lyric fm
Radio Plays with RTÉ Lyric FM
Directed by Jim Culleton
Fishamble and RTÉ lyric fm have produced four original 28-minute radio plays to coincide with a season of music being broadcast during late 2003/early 2004.
Directed by Fishamble’s Jim Culleton and produced by lyric’s Eoin Brady, it is a particularly exciting project as it marks both the first time Fishamble has produced work for radio and the first time RTÉ lyric fm has ever produced drama.
The season of plays was broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm on 96-99 fm at 10:00 pm from the end of 2003 through to the start of 2004; the schedule for transmission was as follows:
Transmission Schedule
Music 1: Messiah
Composer: Handel
Play 1: Handel’s Crossing
Writer: Joe O’ Connor
Music 2: Benvenuto Cellini
Composer: Berlioz
Play 2: The Medusa
Writer: Gavin Kostick
Music 3: Barber of Seville
Composer: Rossini
Play 3: Chaste Diana
Writer: Michael West
Music 4: Werther
Composer: Massenet
Play 4: Sweet Bitter
Writer: Stella Feehil
Cast
Karen Ardiff
Karen was born in Dublin and graduated from the Samuel Beckett Centre in TCD.
Recent theatre credits include Rearing is Sparing by Thomas Kane-Byrne for Dublin Theatre Festival 2021, The Unmanageable Sisters (The Abbey) Stronger (Guna Nua) and Dublin will Show You How at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin and Inside the GPO and The Alternative for Fishamble Theatre Company.
Other stage credits include: Rathmines Road (Jim Culleton, Dublin Theatre Festival), Normal (Maisie Lee, WeGetHighonthisCollective), Angela’s Ashes (Thom Sutherland, Bord Gáis Energy Theatre), Oedipus (Wayne Jordan, Abbey Theatre), Peer Gynt (Lynne Parker, Rough Magic – Irish Times Best Supporting Actress nomination), Threepenny Opera (Wayne Jordan, Gate Theatre) Steel Magnolias with Mischa Barton (The Gaiety Theatre), and Love in the Title (Abbey/International tour – ESB/Irish Times Best Actress Award).
Work with other companies includes: The Colleen Bawn (Bedrock – Irish Times Best Supporting Actress nomination), The Stuff of Myth (Crazy Dog Audio Theatre & Lane Productions) and Helene Hannf in 84 Charing Cross Road (Andrews Lane Theatre – Irish Times Best Actress nomination for both).
Recent screen credits include the Oscar nominated Brooklyn, directed by John Crowley as well as RTÉ’s Acceptable Risk . Other Film/TV includes Noble (nominated for several international awards and three IFTAs), A Terrible Beauty… (Tile Films) as well as Evelyn with Pierce Brosnan.
Productions
Janet Moran
Janet Moran is an actor, playwright and director based in Dublin. Selected Theatre work includes Ulysses, The Plough & The Stars, Juno and the Paycock (National Theatre, London/Abbey Theatre co-production), Shibari, Translations, No Romance, The Recruiting Officer, The Cherry Orchard, She Stoops to Conquer, Communion, The Barbaric Comedies, The Well of the Saints and The Hostage all at the Abbey Theatre, Car Show, Dublin by Lamplight, Everyday, Freefall and Desire under the elms for Corn Exchange, and Spinning, Swing (co-writer)and Rathmines Road for Fishamble.
Film and television work includes The Dry, Trivia, Love/Hate, Love is the Drug (RTE), Dublin Oldschool, The Bailout(TV3), The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, Milo, Minim Rest, Bono and My Ex, Moll Flanders, Nothing Personal, Volkswagen Joe and Quirke (BBC). She co-wrote the hit play Swing and wrote and directed A Holy Show which sold out at the Dublin and Edinburgh fringe festivals as well as its national tour in Spring 2020. She also recently directed My Romantic History, Virtual Verse (Verdant Productions), Looking for América (Dublin Theatre Festival and Edinburgh Fringe) Pure Mental (National Tour).
Productions
Creative Team
Jim Culleton
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.