No Woman is an Island

SCRIPT, PERFORMANCE & CREATIVE DIRECTION: RÓISÍN STACK

DIRECTOR: ANN BLAKE

DRAMATURG: ADRIANO CORTESE

LIGHTING: EOIN WINNING

COMPOSITION: JANE DEASY

MOTION GRAPHICS: LEONARDO SANTOS

PRODUCER: MAGS KEOHANE

STAGE MANAGER: CHLOE NAOMI

TECHNICIAN: MICHAEL FOLEY

PRODUCTION MANAGER: MIKE O’HALLORAN

POSTER DESIGN: JO LOPEZ

ADDITIONAL DESIGN: GARETH JONES

PUBLICITY: CONLETH TEEVAN

VIDEO: STATIONHOUSE MEDIA

Róisín Stack – Text, Performance & Concept

Róisín Stack is a writer  and performer based in the West of Ireland. Recent theatre work includes Matrescene – the messy play of motherhood (work in progress) at Cork Midsummer 20205 (writer & performer), No Woman is an Island  at Bank of Ireland Theatre, Galway and Dublin Theatre Festival 2023 (writer & performer), Also for Roaring at Black Box Theatre, Galway, and Belltable, Limerick 2022  (script & direction).  She is a previous participant on MAKE, Six in the Attic, the Pan Pan International Mentorship and the Clore Leadership Programme (Jerome Hynes Fellow 2019/20). Her writing has been published by various journals as well as Performing Arts Forum, RTÉ, Mayo Books  and the Irish Times. 

Adriano Cortese – Dramaturg

Adriano Cortese is a founding member and Artistic Director of Ranters Theatre, a group of artists from Melbourne, Australia, that have been making work together for more than 25 years. Presented in theatres, inside homes, in gardens and on the streets, Ranters’ work plays with the habitual languages of performance and is centred around the singular question of ‘how we perform ourselves’. The work has received multiple Victorian Green Room awards in Australia and has been presented nationally and internationally in over a dozen counties in the EU, UK, North America and Asia. Between 2017-2021, Adriano was the Co-Artistic Director of the Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival in South Korea. 

Ann Blake – Performance Director

Ann Blake is a director, performer and playwright from Limerick. Her autobiographical play The Morning After The Life Before, is an internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning success.

In October 2025 she directed CONNIE, co-created and written with Joanne Ryan. Ann was Artist-In-Residence in Ormston House from 2022- 2025 and is currently Artist-In-Residence in Limerick City Museum.

Eoin Winning – Lighting Design

Eoin has been working as a freelance designer since graduating from University College Cork in 2008. He has designed work in Ireland and abroad with a broad range of companies, organisations and individuals in spaces ranging from opera houses to ghost estates.  He believes in creativity, adaptability, and consistency. 

https://www.eoinwinning.com/

Jane Deasy  – Music and Sound Design

Jane is a composer and performer working in areas of electroacoustic music, theatre, and multimedia. In 2022 her multimedia performance and installation Opening Night premiered at Dublin Fringe winning the award for Best Design. Other work as a composer/sound designer for theatre includes Playboy of the Western World at The Gaiety and Lyric (Dublin Theatre Festival, 2019), and MEDEA, (The Gate, 2020).

https://janedeasymusic.bandcamp.com/

Leonardo Antonio – Motion Graphics

Leo is an award-winning multidisciplinary designer and art director. He found his feet in creative expression through telling stories using different mediums: working across zines to animations, he has proven his passion for design, creating projects that connect visuals and strong messages.

https://leonardoantonio.myportfolio.com/

Mags Keohane – Producer

Mags is an independent creative producer currently working with artists Róisín Stack (No Woman is an Island – Dublin Theatre Festival 2023 & Also for Roaring 2022), Jane Deasy (The Warm Up – Cork Midsummer Festival 2026 & Opening Night – Awarded Best Design at Dublin Fringe Festival 2022), dance artist Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín (Country OK 2024, currently touring) and inclusive dance artist Jess Rowell (Making Waves 2023). Mags is a field:arts independent creative producer 2026 – 2027.

http://www.magskeohane.com

Mike O’Halloran – Production Manager 

Mike O’Halloran is a Senior Technical Officer at University of Galway’s Drama and Theatre Studies department. Prior to working in the university he worked for various theatre and event production companies and as a freelance Production Manager and Lighting Designer for over 20 years. A long-time member and supporter of the Association of Irish Stage Technicians Mike is the current Treasurer of the association. He was a board member of Galway Arts Centre from 2020-2026 and Galway Theatre Festival from 2010-2014. 

Chloe Naomi – Stage Manager

Chloe Naomi is an arts manager, director and puppeteer based in Galway. Chloe trained in the Lir Academy’s MFA Theatre Directing programme after receiving her BA in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies from NUIG. Chloe is the artistic director of Ciaróg Productions which strives to produce, curate and devise new work. As a stage manager, she has collaborated with numerous companies across Ireland such as Druid, Brú, Active Consent, and Macnas. Her work has been awarded the Agility Award from Arts Council Ireland, Elevate Bursary from Galway International Arts Festival and the Creative Practitioners Bursary from Galway City Arts Office.

Michael Foley – Touring Technician 

Michael Foley is a Galway-based production manager and lighting designer, with extensive experience across theatre, festivals and touring productions in Ireland and internationally. His international touring credits include performances at Lincoln Center and New 42 Studios in New York; the Sydney Opera House; Edinburgh Festival Fringe; London’s Southbank Centre and Barbican Centre; and venues throughout Canada, the USA, South Korea and Europe, including the UK, France, Italy, Hungary and Turkey. In Ireland, Michael has designed and toured extensively with Branar Téatar do Pháistí. He has also worked with companies including Decadent, Druid, Dead Centre, Moonfish, Fíbín and Brú, alongside a wide range of independent artists. His festival work includes Galway International Arts Festival, Galway Theatre Festival, Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, Dublin Fringe Festival and West Cork Fit-Up Festival.

“Witty, thought-provoking and punchy, Stack provides an energetic and slick one woman show” – richardstheatrereviews.com

“Fascinating … eloquent … vivid, elegiac. Not to be missed.” — Irish Times

Supported by Drama and Theatre Studies, University of Galway and field:arts. Funded by the Arts Council | An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Culture Ireland.