Laura MacNaughton has worked in the professional arts sector for over twenty years in theatre, film and Dance. She has worked primarily as a General Manager, Producer and Programmer. Laura has worked at a senior level in multiple arts organisations, these include The Gate Theatre, Dublin Dance Festival and The O’Reilly Theatre. Laura is a drama facilitator and director with Belvedere College Drama Department.

Director credits include Sherlock (2024) Bringing Down The House (2025) and HOPE SPRINGS (2026).

Laura currently sits on the Producers Working Group for the Performing Arts Forum. She holds a Science Degree from Trinity College Dublin and is a classically trained musician and Associate of Trinity College London in music performance.

Laura is the Producer at Fishamble: The New Play Company and previous Fishamble credits include In Two Minds (2023), Taigh Ty Teach (2024) BREAKING (2024), The Black Wolfe Tone (2025), The Leap (2025), REFUGE (2026) and For Dolores (2026)

Eoin is a freelance Production Manager mainly focusing on touring. Eoin has worked on 14 shows with Fishamble, stretching across 10 years.

As a long term collaborator of Dan Colley he has toured Dans work across the world including Lost Lear.

He has worked at some of the worlds best festivals such as Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Galway International Arts Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, and toured work to over 15 countries.

Eoin was honored to work at some special events including the State Visit by HM Queen Elizabeth II, Visit of Pope to Dublin, 1916 centenary celebrations and 2012 Olympic Games.

He trained as a production manager with the Rough Magic SEEDs programme, working on their productions in Dublin, Belfast and New York. He is a product of UCD Dramsoc and has completed a MA in Producing at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

For more information please visit eoinkilkenny.com

Evie is the Assistant Producer for Fishamble: The New Play Company.

Her previous work with the company includes The Black Wolfe Tone, The Leap and The Navigator Project. She is Line Producer for Brokentalkers covering their international touring in 2025 and 2026 as well as new production The Mirror Stage. She has worked as a stage manager for theatre for the last ten years. She graduated with a distinction from The Lir Academy’s Stage Management and Technical Theatre course in 2016. She has worked as a stage manager with The Abbey, The Gate, Landmark, Rough Magic, Pan Pan, Collapsing Horse, The Local Group, Brokentalkers, This is Pop Baby and Livin’ Dred both nationally and internationally. Her previous stage management work includes MASTERCLASS by Brokentalkers (Dublin Fringe Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, RISING Festival, Sydney Theatre Festival), A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by Dan Colley (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, National Tour, Imaginate, Auckland Arts Festival) and Lost Lear by Dan Colley (Dublin Theatre Festival, National Tour, Aotearoa Festival.)

Sophie’s stage managing credits include; The First Child, Medicine, Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, Happy Days,Postcards from the Ledge, Arlington, Once, Ballyturk, Breaking Dad, Talk of The Town, The Second Violinist (Landmark), Three Short Comedies, The Seagull, Druid Gregory, Cherry Orchard, The Beacon, Epiphany, Richard III, King Of The Castle, Beauty Queen of Leenane (Druid).Translations (National Theatre). The Field (Lane Productions). The Heiress, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Pride and Prejudice, An Ideal Husband, The Threepenny Opera, Enemy of The People, Krapps Last Tape (The Gate Theatre). Trad, The Dead School (Livin Dred).

Her film and television credits include Gilgamesh (Macnas), St Patrick’s Day Parade ‘19, Dancing With The Stars(Shinawil), Play Next Door (VIP), Lunasa (RTE), Obama Concert, College Green (MCD), Magners League Awards, Vodafone GAA Awards, Take Me Out, The Childline Concert, IFTA Awards (Observe), Deal or no Deal (Endamol Productions), The All Ireland Talent Show (Tyrone Productions).

Steph Ryan has worked in theatre for many years and with many companies including CoisCéim, Rough Magic, Abbey/Peacock Theatres, OTC and INO to name a few.

Work with Fishamble includes: Handel’s Crossing, The End of The Road, Noah and the Tower Flower, Spinning, Little Thing Big Thing, Invitation to a Journey (a co-production with CoisCéim, Crash Ensemble and GIAF); Mainstream, Rathmines Road, On Blueberry Hill, Embargo and Pat Kinevane’s Forgotten, Silent, Underneath, Before and KING, and Duck Duck Goose.

She is delighted to be back working with Fishamble on In Two Minds.

Allie Whelan is the Marketing, Outreach and Engagement Manager at Fishamble: The New Play Company. Allie has worked on Mustard, King, The Humours of Bandon, In Two Minds, Breaking, Outrage, Heaven, Fight Night, The Black Wolfe Tone, The Leap, The Navigator Project, REFUGE and For Dolores with Fishamble.

Allie Whelan graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2018 with a first class honours degree in Drama & Theatre Studies. Since then she has worked in marketing, communications and social media roles with Dublin Fringe Festival (2021-2024), Poetry Ireland, Landmark Productions (Straight to Video, Walking with Ghosts, Ulysses 2.2, and Krapp’s Last Tape), Pan Pan (The Sudden, The Patient Gloria, The First Bad Man, Cascando and History Play), Glass Mask Theatre (Describe the Night, Country Music, Mother and Child and Celebrity), The RDS Visual Art Awards (2021-2024) and Music Network Ireland (2022-2023 Spring Touring Season).

Allie has also directed a number of productions, Pool (No Water) by Mark Ravenhill, winner of Best Production, Best Ensemble and Best Sound Design at ISDA 2018, By the Bog of Cats for Kildare Youth Theatre and The Terms and Conditions of Me and My Ma by Conor Burke in 2019.

As well as her work with Fishamble, Allie also works as a designer, photographer and occasionally as a chef.

Jeda de Brí is a director, writer and Artistic Director of Sickle Moon Productions.

Credits include: The Egg is a Lonely Hunter (Nominated: Little Gem Award, First Fortnight Award & Fishamble New Writing Award, Dublin Fringe 2017), All honey (Winner: Fishamble New Writing Award, Dublin Fringe 2017), TRYST (Nominated: Fishamble New Writing Award, Fringe 2016.) Mimes in Time (Edinburgh Fringe 2016, Dublin Fringe 2016 – Nominated: Little Gem Award), Cirque Des Reves (Smock Alley & Bewleys Café Theatre).
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Her short film, Procession will shoot in March 2018 as part of The Irish Film Boards Short Stories Scheme. In April, TRYST will return for a full run at Project Arts Centre.

O’Doherty Communications is led by Sinead O’Doherty (Macdonald) who has over 20 years experience working with some of the biggest names and most prestigious events in the arts and entertainment sector.

O’Doherty Communications is led by Sinead O’Doherty (Macdonald) who has over 20 years experience working with some of the biggest names and most prestigious events in the arts and entertainment sector.

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.