Jim Culleton

Artistic Director & CEO

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. 

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Eva Scanlan

Executive Director

Eva Scanlan is the Executive Director at Fishamble: The New Play Company. Current and recent producing work includes Outrage by Deirdre Kinahan; The Treaty by Colin Murphy and Embargo by Deirdre Kinahan, both as part of the Decade of Centenaries; The Alternative by Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney; On Blueberry Hill by Sebastian Barry on the West End, Off-Broadway, and on Irish and international tour; Fishamble’s award-winning plays by Pat Kinevane Before, Silent, Underneath and Forgotten on tour in Ireland and internationally; The Humours of Bandon by Margaret McAuliffe; Maz and Bricks by Eva O’Connor; Inside the GPO by Colin Murphy; Tiny Plays for Ireland and America at the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC and the Irish Arts Centre in New York; and Swing by Steve Blount, Peter Daly, Gavin Kostick and Janet Moran on tour in Ireland, the UK, and Australia.

Eva produces The 24 Hour Plays: Dublin at the Abbey Theatre in Ireland (2012-present), in association with the 24 Hour Play Company, 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 of terraNOVA Collective in New York (2012-2015), where she produced Underland by Ally Collier; terraNOVA Rx: Four Plays in Rep at IRT Theater; the soloNOVA Arts Festival; the Groundworks New Play Series; Woman of Leisure and Panic (FringeNYC), P.S. Jones and the Frozen City by Rob Askins, among other projects. She has worked on events and conferences at the New School, the Park Avenue Armory, and Madison Square Garden.

Gavin Kostick

Literary Manager

As Literary Manager at Fishamble, Gavin works with new writers for theatre through a variety of courses, script development workshops and award-winning schemes. Gavin is also an award-winning playwright. His works have been produced nationally and internationally. Favourite works for Fishamble include The Ash Fire, The Flesh Addicts and The End of The Road. Works for other companies 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'Teilly 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. He has recently completed a new version of The Odyssey, supported by Kilkenny Arts Festival.

Ronan Carey

Office & Production Coordinator

Ronan Carey is a Dublin-based writer, producer, director, and performer.
An associate producer of The 24 Hour Plays: Dublin at the Abbey Theatre in association with the 24 Hour Play Company, New York, since 2009, and an associate programme and events coordinator with Trinity Repertory Theater, Rhode Island since 2015. 
Aside from theatre, Ronan's work with arts institutions has included: The Royal Irish Society of Antiquaries, Open House Dublin, and the Little Museum of Dublin. 

Freya Gillespie

Fundraising & Development Executive

Freya Gillespie is a designer, producer, and arts administrator. Freya is a producer and founding team member of Stoa Collective. She has worked in many venues in various capacities including Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, the Samuel Beckett Theatre, the Granary Theatre, Project Arts Centre, and The Grand Social. She has also worked on film projects, most recently as the production designer for the series Bedroom Sets. 
Freya also has experience of the corporate sector and before joining the Fishamble team had roles in the tech companies Airbnb and Toothpic where her work focused on community organising, project management and event planning.​

Cally Shine

Associate Producer

Associate Producer Cally Shine holds a BA in Theatre and a Minor in Irish Studies from the University of Montana and a Graduate Diploma in Cultural Policy and Arts Management from University College Dublin. For Fishamble: Duck Duck Goose by Caitríona Daly (Dublin Theatre Festival and Irish Tour 2021), The Treaty by Colin Murphy (International Tour, 2021), Outrage by Deirdre Kinahan (Irish Tour 2022), Heaven by Eugene O'Brien (Irish Tour, 2022 and Off-Broadway Transfer, 2023), the upcoming premier of King by Pat Kinevane and the North American tour of The Humours of Bandon by Margaret Mc Auliffe. For Once Off Productions: Rescue Annie by Eoghan Carrick and Lauren Shannon Jones (Dublin Fringe Festival, 2021), The Performance Corporation’s Emperor 101 (Dublin Theatre Festival 2021), Looking For América by Federico Julián González and Janet Moran (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021, and Irish Tour, 2022), Absent The Wrong by Carys D. Coburn (WINNER Best Production, Dublin Fringe Festival, 2022). For Dead Centre: Chekhov's First Play by Dead Centre (International Tour, 2022). 

Dafni Zarkadi

Marketing Officer

Dafni studied Business Administration, with a Marketing pathway in the Athens University of Economics and Business and worked as a trainee management consultant for two years. She completed the MA in Arts Management and Cultural Policy from University College Dublin in 2021 and was awarded with the Irish Museum Trust's Joan Duff Memorial Medal for outstanding student of the year. Before joining Fishamble, she worked with the Dublin City Council Arts Office, at first as an intern/researcher, and afterwards as a social media manager and event organizer for Culture Night 2021 at the LAB Gallery.

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