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.

Veronica Coburn is a theatre artist of some 40 years’ experience.

She has acted as Artistic Director on a number of ambitious, large scale visionary projects. Draíocht Arts Centre’s HOME THEATRE (Ireland) in 2018 which saw 30 professional playwrights paired with 30 people, Hosts, who lived in Dublin 15. Each playwright wrote an original piece, 20 minutes long, inspired by their Host. All 30 original plays were performed in the Hosts’ homes, their kitchens, their living rooms, mapping the stories of the people of D15. And NEST, Draíocht’s follow up project to Home Theatre (Ireland). All NEST hosts were children and young people, the youngest Host was 20 days old and the oldest Host was 23 years old. Nest culminated in a festival, Spréacha SOAR, in March 2024 to celebrate the lives and worlds of our youngest citizens.

Veronica has completed a number of big participatory projects in The Civic Theatre.  Songs of Change, a response to life under lockdown, culminated in 10 original songs inspired by the lived experience of people in South Dublin County and Ghost Hares, an SDCC Public Art Commission, celebrating the people and landscape of South Dublin County using spoken and sung text and original song.

She served as Artistic Director of The National Youth Theatre from 2018 – 2021 with the task of articulating an artistic vision for the programme. In that capacity she directed both Carys D Coburn’s Ask Too Much Of Me & Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s AFTERTASTE. She also established ARTiculate, Youth Theatre Ireland’s young playwright programme designed to support and empower young playwrights and theatre makers. ARTiculate was facilitated by Carys D Coburn and culminated in the production of Like We Were Born To Move by ARTiculate graduate, Eimear Hussey, for NYT 2023.

Veronica has been Programme Director of TENDERFOOT, The Civic Theatre’s apprentice theatre programme for transition year students since its inception in 2007. A volume of Tenderfoot plays, plays written by and for young people was published 2015. A book documenting the work of Tenderfoot, The Mess, will be published in 2027. Veronica is a  Civic Theatre Associate Artist since 2017.

Veronica’s directorial work includes Absent The Wrong, Carys D Coburn’s play about adoption and family in Ireland (Best Production DFF 2022), Bernarda’s House, her own red nose version of Lorca’s House of Bernarda Alba, Amy Conroy’s Eternal Rising of The Sun and Break, Ruth Lehane’s The Lehane Trilogy, and Wicked Angels’ I’m Not A.D.H.D. I’m B.O.L.D. She also directed Carys D Coburn’s This Is A Room for DTF 2017.

Veronica recently directed Noelle Brown’s In Plain Sight, an exploration of Ireland’s history of Mother and Baby Homes through the lens of architecture. She is currently working on a piece exploring the legacy of Article 41 of the Irish Constitution in collaboration with composer, Sinéad Diskin and actor/dancer, Sibéal Davitt.

Veronica is the author of Clown Through Mask – The Pioneering Work of Richard Pochinko As Practised By Sue Morrison, written in collaboration with Sue Morrison and published by Intellect Press, currently being translated into Spanish. She has been awarded the Prix Europa/Radio France, World Gold Medal Status New York, and a Writers’ Guild of Ireland Zebbie Award for her work in radio drama.

Deirdre Dwyer is a theatre maker based in Waterford, Ireland.

​She works as a set and costume designer, a director and a writer. She is interested in making work that is accessible to all people. Designs in 2025 include set and costume for The Change, for Croi Glan Integrated Dance, Hare and Tortoise for Barnstorm Theatre, A Day in May, TUD. She is an artistic director of BrokenCrow, a multidisciplinary, ensemble led theatre company, with whom she has designed and directed shows, created her own plays and produced a series of audio dramas. She is a founder member of Shakespeare Squared, a Waterford theatre collective, for whom she co-directed Twelfth Night, an outdoor promenade production in Waterford’s Viking triangle, in Sept 2023. Her training includes an M.A. in Theatre Design from the RWCMD Cardiff, a degree in Drama and Theatre Studies and English from UCC and participating, as the Designer, in Rough Magic SEEDS3. She was awarded the first Pat Murray Bursary in 2009 and has been awarded an Arts Council Bursary. She has been Theatre Artist in Residence in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford and Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.

She is the Street Theatre Programmer for Spraoi International Arts Festival which brings artists from all over Ireland and around the world perform throughout the city of Waterford for free each August bank holiday.
She teaches design, and related theories, to students in UCC and has guest lectured at and Mary Immaculate College Limerick, IADT and SETU and Berridge Gap Year Programme, France.

She is a founder member of the Irish Society of Performance Designers (ISPD).

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).

Denis has previously worked with The Abbey Theatre, The Gate Theatre, Fishamble, Rough Magic, CoisCéim, Junk Ensemble, Corn Exchange, Northlight Theatre, Chicago and Beijing Children’s Art Theatre. He won the Irish Times theatre award for Best Soundscape in 2011 and 2019. He was also a nominee in 2015 for Junk Ensemble and Brokentalker’s ‘It Folds’. Denis was an associate artist with the Abbey in 2008 and was a participant on Rough Magic’s ADVANCE programme in 2012.

​Composition for Film and Television includes the feature films One Night In Millstreet (Fastnet Films) Older than Ireland (Snack box Films), His and Hers (Venom Film), The Irish Pub (Atom Films) and the animation series Will Sliney’s Storytellers (Fastnet Films).

ArtFX Artistic Director and founder Ger Clancy is an award-winning artist and designer with over 20 years experience working as a sculptor, visual artist, designer and maker.
His expertise and experience encompass the fields of practice associated with visual and spectacle arts, theatre and film.
Ger is also Programme Chair of the Design for Film programme at the Institute of Art and Design Dún Laoghaire (IADT), Ireland.

Maeve Clancy creates work for children and adults using cut paper, pop up, story and drawings. She has worked on music videos for singers Lisa Hannigan and Rhiannon Giddens, mounted solo exhibitions and writes fictional, documentary and historical comics.
Recent commissions include a graphic novel ‘The Irish Civil War’, picture book illustrations for ‘Dingle’s Ashford Castle Christmas’ (Mayo Books Press), and multiple set designs for Branar Téatar do Pháistí including ‘Sruth na Teanga’, an immersive show for Galway 2020 City of Culture.
In 2025, she designed and directed a live shadow puppet version of ‘Peter and the Wolf’ for the National Concert Hall.