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Iseult Golden, #24HrDub writer, is hoping for a real animal

She’s a lurker. “Very little posting, tagging, tweeting, I just watch from the virtual corner….”

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Unique among the 7, 348: Paddy Cornelius (yes you read correctly) Courtney

Paddy C Courtney believes in giving the voiceless a voice. He may say that now but we are wise to the “Actor mimes [entire play]” trick here at #24HrDub HQ.

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Ali Hardiman: Doing #24HrDub for the cookies

Ali Hardiman joins the Creative Team of The 24 Hour Plays in aid of Dublin Youth Theatre as a writer. After a rip roaring 2019, she is kicking off 2020 with a bang. And a truck load of cookies.

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Fionn Foley may have a surprise for #24HrDub. No not the playwriting pickaxe…

Fionn Foley is one of our six writers this year at The 24 Hour Plays in aid of Dublin Youth Theatre supported by BNP Paribas Real Estate. He is an actor, writer and composer based in Dublin. His solo performance ‘Brendan Galileo for Europe‘ won the ‘Best Performer’ and ‘Bewley’s Little Gem’ awards and was […]

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Órla Mc Govern, #24HrDub writer, has a well toned “seat of the pants” muscle. Perfect!

Órla Mc Govern is a proud ex-DYT-er and one of the #24HrDub 2018 writers. Always great to welcome our alumni back for this crazy show! Now based in the Wild West, she is a performer and writer. Her plays have been performed on a moving barge, in a forest, and in a brewery (as well […]

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Sinead Aideen Maria (yes she was obsessed with Sound of Music) Moriarty

Our first writer profile this year and we discover that we are being used in a weird New-Year’s-Resolution-in-December-Experiment. Sinead Moriarty is the author of 12 books published by Penguin. To date, her books have been translated into 25 languages. She has just finished her 13th novel and is delighted to be taking a break from […]

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Still buzzing about the 24 hour plays.

Colm Keegan, one of our team of intrepid overnight 24 Hour Plays: Dublin writers, shared this on Facebook this evening and is happy for me to share here. An inspiration. It was mad to spend a whole night writing, the sounds of a drunk Temple Bar floating into the room – part of me freaking, […]

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Fiona Looney, #24HrDub writer, dreamer, big goose. All required skills.

Fiona Looney who describes herself “Writer, dreamer, big goose. Patron saint of aul’ wans.” has been here before. She wrote It’s the end of the world and I feel hungry in 2013 which was directed by Alan King and included Stefanie Preissner in the cast. They are also both returning this year as an actor […]

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Caitríona Daly, #24HrDub writer, equally “terrified and excited”

Caitríóna Daly is one of our team of seven writers this year. You can find her on Twitter @caitrionadaly and on Medium where she is “typing and shouting.” A multitasker so. Last November Caitríona wrote “Test Dummy” which premiered in Theatre Upstairs last November and included Caitríona Ennis in the cast who is one of our valiant […]

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Noelle Brown, #24Hr Dub writer, wants your opinion on the trajectory of tears

According to her teachers in school “Noelle is completely switched off when it comes to maths” Ever creative, Noelle Brown, one of our 2017 #24HrDub writers has found a solution to this terrible problem. “Thankfully I now own a state of the art calculator, have some very maths savvy friends and have never needed algebra […]