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The Treaty by Colin Murphy
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Published by Bloomsbury 2021

Fishamble: The New Play Company Presents
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The Treaty

 By Colin Murphy
 One hundred years ago, a small group of untested politicians left Dublin for London, to negotiate for Irish independence with one of the most formidable delegations ever put together. The Irish were seeking to take back control; the British believed they were stronger together. The Unionists believed in a hard border on the island of Ireland; the Republicans wanted the border in the Irish Sea. The Irish wanted a hard exit from the British Empire; the British tried to tempt them with the Canada option. And overseeing it all was a prime minister nobody trusted, notorious for his wizardry. The Treaty is a history play for this moment.
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 The Treaty will be staged in the Kevin Barry Recital Room of the National Concert Hall, where the Dáil debates on the treaty actually took place in 1921.
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This production is part  of a programme of events to mark the centenary of various aspects of the Anglo-Irish Treaty which was signed on the 6th December 1921.

 The Treaty was co-commissioned by Fishamble and Pavilion Theatre. This production is part of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media’s Decade of Centenaries programme. This production is supported by Culture Ireland, National Concert Hall, Irish Embassy London, Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Department of Foreign Affairs, and British Irish Chamber of Commerce.
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“I am also encouraged to see that our artists and musicians continue to use the Decade of Centenaries as a source of inspiration for rich and exciting new work... I also look forward to seeing Fishamble Theatre Company’s production of “The Treaty” by Colin Murphy which delves into the lives of those involved in the Treaty negotiations.”
- Catherine Martin TD, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media

Previous Performances

18-27 November 2021 : National Concert Hall, Dublin Kevin Barry Recital Room
2-6 December 2021: Embassy of Ireland
6-12 December 2021: National Concert Hall ONLINE Presentation
​13-16 March 2022: Culture Ireland SEODA, Online Festival

Creative Team

Cast

Written by Colin Murphy
​Directed by Conall Morrison
Set and Lighting Design by Paul Keogan
Costume Design by Catherine Fay
Composition and Sound Design by Denis Clohessy
AV Design by Neil O’Driscoll
Hair & Make Up Design by Val Sherlock
Fight Director Ciaran O'Grady
Artistic Director of Fishamble Jim Culleton
Dramaturg Gavin Kostick

Production Team

Produced by Eva Scanlan
Production Manager Eoin Kilkenny
Line Producer Cally Shine
Stage Manager Clive Welsh
Assistant Stage Manager Síle Mahon
Wardrobe Supervisor Aoife O'Rourke
Costume Assistant Eimear Regan
Chief Lx Síofra Nic Liam
Chief Video Laura Rainsford
Board Programmer Maeubh Brennan
Crew Vincent Doherty, Maisey Lorimer, Laura Murphy, Damien Woods, Niall Woods
Production Coordinator Ronan Carey
Marketing Dafni Zarkadi and Freya Gillespie
Graphic Design Nick Doring & Publicis
Press & Publicity O'Doherty Communications
​Welsh Dialect Advisors Arwel Gruffydd, Catherine Paskell, Branwen Davies
​​​​​Karen Ardiff as Arthur Griffith
Jane Brennan as Eamonn de Valera
John Cronin as Cathal Brugha & Emmet Dalton
Shadaan Felfeli as Robert Barton & General Macready
Patrick Moy as Michael Collins
Caitríona Ní Mhurchú as Lady Lavery & Sir James Craig
Simon O’Gorman as Tom Jones
Camille Lucy Ross as Winston Churchill
Kate Stanley Brennan as Kathleen McKenna
Ian Toner as Erskine Childers
Ali White as Earl of Birkenhead & Ernie O'Malley
Jonathan White as David Lloyd George
Special thanks to the Central Bank of Ireland for granting permission to use the Portrait of Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan by Sir John Lavery.

Special thanks to Hugh Lane Gallery for granting permission to use artworks from their gallery. ​

Reviews

‘a masterclass in tension’ 
★★★★ The Irish Times
 
‘spellbinding...performances are a delight…The Treaty is a theatrical event’
Irish independent
 
‘Electrifying…theatrical magic…a wholly engaging drama’ 
★★★★★ Broadway World
 
‘A remarkable piece of political drama’
Michael Billington, The Guardian

Production Shots 

by Ste Murray

Cast Portraits​

by Leo Byrne

Previous Dates

2021 Irish and International Touring
18 - 27 Nov: NATIONAL CONCERT HALL, Dublin 
2 - 4 Dec: IRISH EMBASSY IN LONDON, London 
6 - 12 Dec: NATIONAL CONCERT HALL, Dublin. Digital presentation.
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Meet the Team

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Colin Murphy
​​Writer
Colin Murphy has written for stage, television, film and radio, and has been nominated for an Irish Theatre Award, an Irish Film and Television Academy award and a Celtic Media Award; his radio documentaries have received a Prix Marulic silver award and a New York Festivals bronze award. Two of his plays are published by Bloomsbury. With Fishamble Theatre Company, he has written a series of political documentary dramas, two of which, Guaranteed! and Haughey/Gregory, are published by Bloomsbury. Guaranteed! was acclaimed as “a national event” by the Irish Times; it and its sequel, Bailed Out!, “injected a new and vital ingredient into the Irish theatre landscape”, wrote the Irish Independent. His Easter Rising play, Inside the GPO, was described as “deeply moving and utterly memorable… deserves to be remembered as pivotal” by the Sunday Independent. He writes a weekly column for the Sunday Business Post.
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Conall Morrison
​​Director
Conall Morrison is a director and writer. As well as a long association with the Abbey Theatre, for which he had directed thirty plays, he has directed for the Royal Shakespeare Co, the Globe Theatre, Cameron Mackintosh, English National Opera, Landmark, Irish National Opera, the Lyric Theatre. As well as several original plays, he has written many adaptations, including: Tarry Flynn, Antigone, Ghosts, The Travels of Jonathan Swift, Woyzeck in Winter. He has previously directed three other plays by Colin Murphy for Fishamble Theatre Co.: Guaranteed, Bailed Out, Haughey/Gregory
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Karen Ardiff
Cast
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.  
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Ian Toner
Cast
Ian Toner recently appeared in CATCH 22, directed by George Clooney on HULU. He was last seen on stage in Gym Swim Party as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival. Ian trained at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. 
Ian appeared in the role of Kieran in Redwater (BBC/RTE), Season 1 of RTE drama Rebellion directed by Aku Louhimies and in Wrecking the Rising for TG4 directed by Ruan Magan. Other screen credits include An Klondike, a TV mini series for TG4 produced by Abu Media and Charlie opposite Aidan Gillen in a three part mini-series produced by Touchpaper Films/RTE. He recently completed filming a recurring role on VALHALLA (Netflix). Other theatre credits include Hugh Travers These Stupid Things, the leading roles of Brendan Bracken & William Joyce in Double Cross at the Peacock Theatre, the role of Jimmy Porter in the Gate Theatre production of Look Back in Anger directed by Annabelle Comyn, Wild Sky directed by Jo Mangan and At The Ford (Rise Productions) at the Dublin Theatre Festival. Other stage appearances include Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet and Tom in The Vortex directed Annabelle Comyn, both at the Gate Theatre and Bennett in Punk Rock at the Lyric Theatre. 
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Jonathan White
Cast
Jonathan White was born in Dublin, Ireland and grew up in New York. His acting career began while he was still studying at Trinity College, Dublin. 
Jonathan co-wrote, produced and starred in the two hander To Hell In a Handbag directed by Conor Hanratty which appeared in the Dublin Fringe Festival and toured nationally and internationally from 2016 to 2019.  
His theatre work includes: Haughey Gregory (Fishamble: The New Play Company), Anglo: The Musical (BGET & Olympia) No Escape, The Comedy of Errors, Ladybag, Calvary, The Resurrection, The Quare Fellow and Imeachtaí na Saoirse (Abbey) The Life of Galileo, I Can’t Get Started, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Our Country’s Good, Serious Money, No End of Blame and Victory (Rough Magic), Amadeus (Ouroboros) Mutabilitie (Theatreworks) Comedians (Bickerstaffe) Massive Damages (Passion Machine) and The Merchant of Venice, Othello, King Lear, Hamlet and As You Like It (Second Age). Films include Happy Ever Afters, Cracks, Veronica Guerin and When Brendan Met Trudy. 
Television credits include Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope, Ripper Street, Titanic: Blood & Steel, Betrayal of Trust, Honeymoon for One, The Santa Incident, Wild Decembers, Whistleblower, The Tudors, On Home Ground, The Ambassador, Nighthawks, A Song For Europe and Father Ted.  

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Camille Lucy Ross
Cast
Camille Lucy Ross is a graduate of the Philippe Gaulier school, LA’s iO West Improv school, The Gaiety School of Acting and University College Dublin. She most recently appeared in Callan’s Kicks (RTE) and is a series regular. Camille is also a writer, improviser and founder of Brazen Tales productions for which she wrote and performed in Big Bobby. Little Bobby (First Fortnight Winner) and How To be Angry (Best Ensemble nominee). 
Theatre credits include: Sauce (Dublin Fringe Festival), The Odd Couple (The Everyman), We Can’t Have Monkeys in the House (New Theatre), GPO 1818 (Fishamble), The Grimm Tale of Cinderella, (Smock Alley), Coast (Red Bear), Monster Clock (Collapsing Horse), Travesties (Rough Magic), Pocket Music (Bewleys/Little Gem Award), Anna in Between (Pillowtalk/Best Performer nominee), A Christmas Carol (The Gate); Serious Money (Rough Magic SEEDS), Durang Durang (Brazen Tales, Top Theatre Performance), Fused (Project Arts Centre), Animus (Denis Clohessy), The Lesson (Zoe Reardon), Richard III, Twelfth Night (Fast & Loose), TV & Film credits include: Callan’s Kicks (Catchy Title), The Rafters (John Carney/Warehouse), Finding Joy (Treasure) Republic of Telly & Bridget & Eamon (RTE). 
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Ali White
Cast
Ali White was born in Belfast and lives in Dublin. Recent theatre performances include: Chekhov’s First Play (Dead Centre) MESS (Festival Sarajevo, winner of best Production); Driving Home for Christmas (Lyric Belfast); Home Project (Draíocht Blanchardstown); Asking for it (Landmark); The Effect (Rough Magic); Lippy (Dead Centre); Northern Star (Rough Magic, Best Supporting Actress Irish Times Theatre Awards); Bailed Out! (Fishamble: The New Play Company); Deadly (Abbey Theatre); God of Carnage. Recent Film and TV Work includes: Three Families (BBC); The Windermere Children (BBC); Christmas at Castle Hart (Hallmark); Cellar Door (Samson Films); The Secret (ITV); My name is Emily (Ferndale Films); The Bailout (Virgin Media). Writing Work Includes: Me, Mollser (Abbey Theatre Community and Education Department); Catching the fly (BBC Radio Ulster); The Clinic (Parallel Films); Any time Now (BBC NI/RTE). 
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Caitríona Ní Mhurchú
Cast
Caitríona Ní Mhurchú is an award-winning performer/writer/theatre maker. Most recently she played ‘C’ in Performance Corporation’s VR theatre show Emperor 101 for DTF 2. She collaborated with choreographer Sibeal Davitt as performance director/dramaturg on Minseach for DFF 2021. She was commissioned by Aisling Ghéar to write on online play for 7-12 year olds; An Botún. Transmission - for her own company Little Wolf - played Abbey Theatre/ Peacock Stage DFF 2020. Other recent work includes Nassim for DTF 2019 and the title role in Forever Yours Mary-Lou at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath. Favourite work includes Lippy, The Seagull, 16 Possible Glimpses, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, The Sit, Guaranteed and the 10th Anniversary Celebration of The Oak Tree by Tim Crouch at The Traverse. An Oireachtas award-winner, Caitríona has written extensively for children’s television and her children’s books are published by Cló Iar-Chonnachta/O’Brien Press. Her book Ó Lúibíní Lú was nominated for a Glen Dimplex Award. Her first radio play Momento Mori was a PJ O Connor award-winner. The Little Penpal won Gold in New York Radio Festivals for Best Writing. Gadhar a sound-story commissioned by RnaG 2019 was published in a compendium in 2020. Mise & Ise was comissioned by RTÉ 1 as a response to the pandemic.
Caitríona is a Story Line writer for Fair City, RTÉ.
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Simon O'Gormon
Cast
Simon O'Gormon worked with Landmark on Asking For It and at the Gate in A Christmas Carol. He also spent time in Belfast with Prime Cut performing the one-man show, Every Day I Wake Up Hopeful, and at the Gate Theatre as Georgie Burgess in two sell-out runs of Roddy Doyle’s The Snapper. His most recent appearance at the Abbey was in Sive by John B Keane in 2014. Simon’s Film credits include The Escapist, Bobby’s Girl, The Alarms and Dark Touch while, for television, Simon was part of TV3’s The Bailout which aired earlier this year, and spent the previous two summers filming Striking Out for RTE. Other television credits include The Clinic, Pure Mule, On Home Ground, The Big Bow Wow, Fair City (all for RTE); Ripper Street, Eastenders (BBC).​
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John Cronin
Cast
John Cronin can now be seen on screen in Fair City on RTE. John most recently appeared in Glue (Rough Magic) and in Restoration at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
Film/TV credits include: Fair City, Rebellion, Resistance (RTÉ), Black 47 (Fastnet Films), The Foreigner (Netflix), Trial of the Century (TV3), Y Sycras (Fatti Films), Trivia (RTÉ), Jack Taylor (Telegael), Insatiable (Kirby Films), Legend (RTÉ), The General (Merlin Films), The Last Bus Home (Bandit Films), Family (BBC) & The Commitments (20th Century Fox). 
Theatre credits include: It was Easy (In the End) (The Abbey Theatre), Before Monsters Were Made (15th Oak), Sunder, On Corporation Street, Pals (Anú), A View from the Bridge, My Cousin Rachel (The Gate Theatre), Digging for Fire (Rough Magic), Othello (Second Age), Glengarry Glen Ross (The Gate Theatre), I am My Own Wife (Prime Cut), The End of the Road (Fishamble), Richard III (Fast & Loose), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Livin Dred), The Anatomy of a Seagull (Loose Canon), Comedy of Errors (The Abbey Theatre), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Making Strange), Saved, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Romeo & Juliet (The Abbey Theatre), Stuck (Project Arts Centre) & Stones in His Pockets (Duchess Theatre).
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Kate Stanley Brennan
Cast

Kate Stanley Brennan's theatre credits include: Conversations After Sex (thisispopbaby), SHIT (thisispopbaby),  Restoration (Project); Evening Train (Everyman Cork), Riot (thisispopbaby); The Plough and the Stars (Abbey Theatre; Lyric Theatre London and Gaiety); Walk For Me (Project); Crestfall (Druid); The White Devil (Shakespeare’s Globe); Invitation to a Journey (Cois Ceim/Fishamble; The Night Alive (Lyric Belfast / Gaiety); Hedda Gabler (Abbey); Wuthering Heights (Gate); A New Day (Bewleys); The Risen People (Abbey); Witness (Fit Up Fest); Best Man (Everyman/Project); Tiny Plays for Ireland (Fishamble);   The Making of Tis Pity She's a Whore (Siren), Yerma ( West Yorkshire Playhouse ), Sanctuary Lamp (Arcola Theatre London),  Terminus by Mark O'Rowe (Tour), The Playboy of the Western World, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and Saved ( all Abbey Theatre), Love and Money (Hatch, Best Actress Nomination) , Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Making Strange/ Best Supporting Actress Nomination), Caligula (CHRG/Dublin Theatre Festival), Translations (Ouroboros), Salomé (Gate Theatre), Mother Goose (Gaiety Theatre), Macbeth (Second Age) and Sonnets for an Old Century (X-Belair).
Film and television credits include Kin (RTE), Float Like A Butterfly;  Dollhouse; Chasing The Green  Thanks for Nothing; Dublin in Pieces; Speed Dating; The Tudors, Fair City and RAW  ​
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Patrick Moy
​Cast
Patrick trained at RADA. Theatre work includes A Holy Show (Verdant Productions/Pleasance, Edinburgh), The Omission of the Family Coleman (Ustinov Studio, Bath), A Holy Show (Mermaid/Peacock), The Weir (Sherman, Cardiff/Tobacco Factory, Bristol), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (AFTLS, US tour/Cockpit), The Sound of Music, Abigail’s Party, Translations, The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Curve, Leicester), Richard ll (Ouroboros/Everyman), Anglo the Musical (Verdant Productions/Kite Entertainment/Bord Gáis Energy Theatre), The Playboy of the Western World, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Glass Menagerie (Lyric), The Madness of George lll (Theatre Royal Bath/West End), The Taming of the Shrew (RSC, Stratford/West End), The Merchant of Venice (RSC, Stratford), Titus Andronicus, The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Duchess of Malfi, The Revenger’s Tragedy (Loose Canon), Hamlet, The Importance of Being Earnest, She Stoops to Conquer, A Life (Abbey), Elizabeth (Kabosh), Amadeus (Ouroboros), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Cripple of Inishmaan (Leicester Haymarket), The Clearing (Shared Experience), King Matt (TAG), The Playboy of the Western World, Peter Pan, Macbeth, Lovers (Lyceum, Edinburgh), Macbeth (Battersea Arts Centre).
Film work includes Official Secrets (Classified Films), The Daisy Chain (Subotica Entertainment). Radio work includes A Holy Show, Roger Casement’s ‘Apocalypse Now’, for RTÉ.
He was nominated for Best Performance at the Dublin Fringe Festival and for the Ian Charleson Award. He voiced a regular character on Footy Pups (CBeebies), has narrated many audiobooks.​
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Jane Brennan
​Cast
Jane Brennan was most recently seen on stage in Druid’s production of Richard III , at the Lincoln Center in New York and in HOME at the Abbey Theatre.
Jane appeared in the Academy Award nominated and BAFTA winning feature film Brooklyn, directed by John Crowley for which she received IFTA award for Best Supporting Actress in 2016. Other recent Film/TV credits include Striking Out (RTE), Paula(Alex Holmes/BBC), NW (Saul Dibb – BBC2), Trial of the Century (Maurice Sweeney – TV3), Intermission (Parallel Films), Love/Hate and Fair City(RTE). She has recently completed filming a recurring role in Hidden Assets (RTE) which will broadcast later in 2021.
Jane has played leading roles with all of the major Irish theatre companies, recently including Druid’s production of The Beacon at the Gate Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival, Richard III & By the Bog of Cats (The Abbey). She received an Irish Times Best Actress nomination for her role as Mary in The House and the Irish Times Best Actress Award for her role as Alice in Alicetrilogy, written and directed by Tom Murphy (2007). Other credits include Pygmalion (The Gate – Harvey’s Award Nomination Best Actress) and Not I at the Lincoln Centre, New York, as part of the Gate’s Beckett Festival and Splendour (RAW Productions at the Project – Irish Times Best Actress Nomination).
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Shadaan Felfeli
​Cast

Shadaan Felfeli has an M.A. in Drama and Performance Studies from U.C.D. and has trained at the Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin. Theatre credits include: Home Theatre [Ireland], (Dublin Theatre Festival/ Draoícht); My Name is Language, (Dublin Theatre Festival/ Project Arts Centre); The Other War, (FESTABIT/ Project Arts Centre); Waiting for Godot, (Mouth on Fire Theatre Co. /Theatre X Cai, Tokyo/Kyoto University of Arts & Design); One for the Road, (Gate Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (Abbey Theatre); Rough for Theatre II, Catastrophe, (Mouth on Fire Theatre Co./ National Concert Hall); The Burning House, (Dublin Dance Festival); Bodach an Chóta Lachna, (Baboró Children’s Festival, National Tour). Film credits include: Herself, (B.B.C./ B.F.I./ Element); Sensation, (I.F.B./ Blinder Films); The Fading Light, (I.F.B./ Park Films). Television credits include: Innocent (Series 2), (I.T.V.); Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope, Fair City, (R.T.Ė.); The Take, (Sky); Father and Son, (I.T.V.). Radio credits include: No Love Lost, Seany Boy, (R.T.É.).​
Paul Keogan
​Set and Lighting Design
Paul Keogan'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).
Catherine Fay
​Costume Design
Catherine Fay has designed for Theatre, Opera and Dance, most recently, Transmission (Little Wolf) for DFF 2020, Much Ado about Nothing (Rough Magic Theatre Company) Näher…..nearer, closer, sooner (Liz Roche Dance Company) The Return of Ulysses (Opera Collective Ireland) and The Plough and the Stars (Lyric Hammersmith / Abbey Theatre). She designed Girl Song (United Fall) 12 Minute Dances, Totems (Liz Roche Dance Company) Owen Wingrave (Opera Collective Ireland) Acis and Galatea (Opera Theatre Company) The Importance of Nothing (Pan Pan Theatre Company) and Owen Wingrave (Opera Bastille, Paris, 2016). She has designed many productions for The Abbey Theatre including The Plough and the Stars (Irish Times Theatre Award nomination 2017) Our Few and Evil Days, (Irish Times Theatre Award nomination 2015) Henry IV Part I (Irish Times/ESB Theatre Award nomination 2007). For The Gate she has designed Romeo and Juliet (Irish Times Theatre Award nomination 2016) and The Threepenny Opera. Other work includes Breaking Dad (Landmark Productions)  (Irish Times Theatre Award nomination 2015) and DOGS (Emma Martin Dance)(Winner Best Production and Best Design for ABSOLUT Fringe Festival 2012)
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Dennis Clohessy
Composer and Sound Designer
Denis Clohessy has previously worked with Fishamble, including the productions The Pride of Parnell Street, Silent, Underneath, Before, The Alternative (Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Soundscape in 2019, together with The Examination for Brokentalkers and In Our Veins for Bitter Like a Lemon/Abbey/Dublin Port Company), Spinning, Mainstream and Strandline.  He has also produced work for theatre and dance with The Abbey Theatre, The Gate Theatre, Rough Magic, Corn Exchange, Junk Ensemble and many others. He won the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Design Sound in 2011 for Rough Magic’s Sodome, My Love, he was a nominee in 2015 (for Junk Ensemble’s ‘It Folds), was an associate artist with the Abbey in 2008 and was a participant on Rough Magic’s ADVANCE programme in 2012. His composition work for Film and Television includes the films Older than Ireland (Snack box Films), The Irish Pub (Atom Films), His and Hers (Venom Film), The Land of the Enlightened (Savage Film), In View (Underground Cinema), The Reluctant Revolutionary (Underground Films), and the television series Limits of Liberty (South Wind Blows) performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
Eoin Kilkenny
Production Manager
Eoin Kilkenny has toured across Ireland and the world with theatre productions from Landmark Productions, Rough Magic Theatre Company, Fishamble: The New Play Company, Cois Ceim Dance, Abbey Theatre and many more. He has worked at some of the best festivals at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh during the Festival Fringe, Galway international Arts Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival and London international Festival of Theatre. 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.
Clive Welsh
Stage Manager
Previous work with Fishamble Turning Point & Rank. 
Projects with Landmark Productions The Approach, Ballyturk, Howie the Rookie, The Talk of The Town
at Project Arts Centre; and These Halcyon Days, Once The Musical. 

For CoisCéim Dance Theatre Pageant, Touch Me, Missing, Swimming with my Mother, Dance Talking. 

Other work includes The Snapper, The Great Gatsby
(The Gate Theatre), Driving Miss Daisy (Gaiety Theatre), What Did I Miss, Peat, A Christmas Carol, BEES (The Ark), Love and Money, Further than the Furthest Thing (Hatch Theatre), The Lulu House, Macbeth (Siren), Plaza Suite (Rough Magic) A Number, Saved, Terminus, Woman and Scarecrow and The Recruiting Officer (Abbey Theatre). RTÉ Centenary, Live from The Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. 

Opera work, Gianni Schicchi
(Blackwater Valley Opera), Fanciulla Del West, Margherita, Vanessa, Les Pré Aux Clercs, Thérèse, La Navarraise, The Golden Ticket, The Ghosts of Versailles, (Wexford Festival Opera), Tosca (St Petersburg Opera) A Streetcar Named Desire, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Ireland).

Clive also works on Large Scale Arena events and Television with RTÉ.

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