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 […]
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 […]
Next up in our actor profiles is Margaret Mc Auliffe, an actor, and former Irish Dancer. Margaret’s previous stage credits include; The Humours of Bandon (Dublin Fringe ’16, Fishamble nationwide tour and Edinburgh Fringe ‘17), Anna Karenina (Abbey Theatre), My English Tongue My Irish Heart (Greenshoot Productions for Belfast’s Waterfront Theatre and national tour incl Manchester and London), Jezebel (Rough Magic national tour incl Paris […]
If you’re a similar age to myself even seeing a picture of Rose Henderson will bring a smile to your face as memories of Saturday morning hysteria at her antics on Pajo’s Junkbox come flooding back. No? Well how about this: Rose Henderson played Sister Assumpta in Father Ted, and Biggest Fan in the Daniel O’Donnell […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jay Duffy is a two time #24HrDub veteran so while he may appear young and innocent I reckon he is going to be the go to guy when you’re freaking out about not knowing your lines on Sunday afternoon, fellow actors! If you would like to know a bit more about what Jay has been […]
Camille Ross (who you can find on Twitter) dreams of being an interpretive-dancing, comic, jazz-singer. I’ll just leave that there then… Beside the ruby slippers…. Introduce yourself please. You can even describe yourself as your favourite teacher might if asked today what you were like in school if you are feeling nostalgic. My primary school […]