Will O’Connell is obviously quite mad. Not content with acting in NIGHT LETTERS by Ross Dungan as part of our 2014 productions alongside Karen Ardiff and Jay Duffy, he obviously decided his director Peter Daly had an easy time of it and has returned as one of our directors this year. We’ll soon learn him! We highly recommend […]
Let’s not tell her that the directors don’t have to stay up all night… the play will be trippy, man! As you’ll see from her introduction below, Julie is no slacker, having directed five full length productions since taking up the reins as Artistic Director of The Everyman in Cork. This includes The Strange Undoing of […]
Jeda De Bri is a director whose 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 […]
Our next director in the hot seat is Mark O’Brien. Mark is the Director of axis, Ballymun. Theatre directing credits include; for axis, ‘Bang Bang’, ‘Tea Chests and Dreams’ and ‘The Parting Glass’ by Dermot Bolger (touring nationally and Internationally), ‘Glimmer’ by Joe Flavin, ‘Stór’ by Ciaran Taylor, ‘The Good Father’ by Christian O’ Reilly, ‘Cleaners’ […]
And we’re back! Continuing our tradition of getting to know the participants in The 24 Hour Plays: Dublin we kick off this year’s profiles with Michael Barker-Caven who will be one of our daring directors this year. And what a director! Currently Artistic Director the Civic Theatre, Tallaght, Michael is a ten times Irish times nominee […]
Stefanie Preissner is no stranger to The 24 Hour Plays in aid of Dublin Youth Theatre supported by BNP Paribas Real Estate. Stefanie is in the unique position of having acted (2013), written (2014) and now she’ll be cracking the whip as a director in 2017. Stefanie is on the Twitter and had a big hit […]
Meet Una McKevitt, one of our six directors this year. You can find out more about Una on her website www.unamckevitt.com. Her production company, UMCK Productions, is committed to making art disguised as entertainment. Definitely our cup of tea! We thought it might be fun to ask all our participants a few searching questions so they can […]
Selina Cartmell , who likes a curly wurly, is currently Artistic Director of the multi-award winning company Siren Productions based in Dublin. She is one of our six directors this year. In her Q&A below she extols the virtues of animals’ and children’s purity and energy. She hasn’t met my kids. Or Eva C. Scanlan’s cat. […]
50% of our directors this year are female. Aoife Spillane-Hinks is 30% of those and she is a big Instagram fan. You can find her there or on Twitter or Facebook. Or maybe you would like to see how she works from start to finish? All over 24 Hours? If so, we have a very few […]
Today’s victim interviewee is Donnacadh O’Briain who I bet spends his life spelling his name across the water. It’s a challenge even to a Gaeilgeoir like myself! You can find out lots more about him beyond his name below and over on his site. Introduce yourself please. You can even describe yourself as your granny […]