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.

Sabine Dargent has won two Irish Times Best Set Design Awards and been nominated for two others.  She is a freelance Set and Costume Designer, working mostly in theatre, with various directors and companies.

Sabine has designed a few times for Jim Culleton and Fishamble Theatre Company which she always enjoys!  As well as other shows for Jim, including Monged, Strandline, Tiny Plays for Ireland 1 & 2, and Spinning, she designed set and costumes for The Pride of Parnell Street, also written by Sebastian Barry, and designed by the same team. Sabine works with Mikel Murfi very often, also for Michael Keegan Dolan, Conall Morrison, Enda Walsh, Paul Mc Enaney, Selina Cartmell, and a lot of others in Ireland and abroad.  Some productions she has designed have been very successful and toured  for a long time, such as Swan Lake, The Walworth Farce, Rian, The Pride of Parnell Street…  S

he loves theatre, dance, and physical theatre, but has also designed for exhibitions, films, and has designed big events, such as the GAA 2016 celebration in Croke Park, and street theatre, such as the St Patrick’s Dublin Parade sections City Fusion and Brighter, taking care of the visuals for costumes, floats, props, and make up, for about 200 participants.

Paul’s theatre credits include: Tiny Plays for Ireland, Strandline and True Believers (Fishamble, Dublin); The Visiting Hour, The Snapper, Hamlet, (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Sadie, Shirley Valentine, Double Cross, (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Happy Days, Blood in the Dirt, Postcards from The Ledge, The Walworth Farce (Landmark, Dublin); Walls and Windows, The Great Hunger, Last Orders at the Dockside, Citysong, On Raftery’s Hill (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Love, Love, Love (Lyric Hammersmith); I Think We Are Alone (Frantic Assembly, UK Tour); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Classic Spring, London); A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelfth Night and The Hudsucker Proxy (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); Cyprus Avenue (Abbey, Dublin/Royal Court/Public, NYC); Harvest (Royal Court); The Caretaker (Bristol Old Vic); Incantata, Trad, The Matchbox (Galway International); Far Away, Sacrifice at Easter (Corcadorca, Cork); The Gaul (Hull Truck Theatre); Blue/Orange, Tribes (Crucible, Sheffield), Novecento (Trafalgar Studios, London).
​Opera and Dance: 20 Shots of Opera (Irish National Opera Film); Elektra and The Marriage of Figaro (Irish National Opera); The Return of Ulysses (Opera Collective, Ireland); Falstaff (Vienna Staatsoper); Dialogues des Carmelites (Grange Park Opera UK); Powder Her Face (Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao); The Fairy Queen (RIAM Dublin); Maria de Buenos Aires (Cork Opera House); Wake (Nationale Reisopera, Netherlands); Lost (Ballet Ireland); Sama & Flight (Rambert, London); No Man’s Land (English National Ballet); Cassandra, Hansel and Gretel (Royal Ballet, London).

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.