Written & Directed by Gabriel Graves
Gabriel Graves is a theatre maker born in Spain who spent most of his life in Argentina and now works in Ireland. He has premiered over 25 plays across Argentina’s independent, public and commercial circuits, receiving various awards. His work has also been presented in Ireland, Italy, Ecuador and Mexico. He co-founded La Polenta Teatro, which worked with migrant actors in Argentina, and has worked as a playwright with Malvado Colibrí, specialising in clown technique. He has also taught Playwriting and History of the Dramatic Arts at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes.
In Ireland, an Agility Award led to a work-in-progress presentation of The Cure for Cancer, which he wrote and directed. His first “Irish” play, Anhedonia, received a Project Award and was presented at Project Arts Centre, followed by a reading at The Civic as part of Newvember. He has received Bursary Awards and the Listowel–New York Residency.
Cast: Kate Finegan
Kate Finegan is an actor, aerialist, playwright, screenwriter and theatre maker.
Recent credits include Deaf Republic by Dead Centre, which premiered at the Royal Court, London and Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 and most recently at Noorderzon Festival in The Netherlands, 2026. Feature film credits include Tarrac and Joyride. TV credits include The Walsh Sisters, Northern Lights, Fair City, Ros na Rún and Klondike.
Alongside Jade O’Connor, Kate co-created Dublin Fringe sell-out shows Haus of Fash Hun, directed by Eoghan Carrick, and Caged, directed by Jenny Jennings. Further theatre credits include The Wakefires, An Agreement of Silence and Toraíocht.
Kate has performed nationally and internationally with THISISPOPBABY, Fíbín, Fidget Feet, St Brigid’s Day Festival and Spraoi. She is also a fluent Irish speaker and voice artist.
Kate’s new show West Meath Gothic, directed by Katie O’Halloran, will premiere at Project Upstairs at this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival.
Cast/ Music: James Ireland
James is a disabled theatremaker and composer/sound designer.
They co-founded award-winning eco gig theatre company Bradán (Axis Green Arts Award, and awarded support by PAN PAN Platform at Dublin Fringe 2022; VAULT x Staging Change Award 2022), and performed in their award-winning show Cooking the Vegan Salmon of Knowledge. They also performed in and helped create Dead Centre’s show Illness as Metaphor, which won the Best Ensemble Award at Dublin Fringe 2024.
James has recently composed for work performed across Ireland, the UK, and in Belgium and China – live accompanying and producing scores with violin, cello, electric guitar, uilleann pipes, electronic processors, full pop musical backing tracks, and more.
Cast: Fiona McGeown
Fiona McGeown is an actor, writer and director originally from Lurgan in Co. Armagh.
She was a core ensemble player and collaborator with Blue Raincoat Theatre Company for over 20 years, performing and choreographing work including The Third Policeman, At Swim Two Birds, Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Only Jealousy of Emer, At the Hawk’s Well, The Cat and The Moon, The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, Hamlet, Playboy of the Western World, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rhinoceros. Other work includes Birds of Passage in the Half Light by Kat Woods for Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Translations with the Abbey Theatre and Remember Me by Brian Leydon for Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo.
Fiona trained at the Gaiety School of Acting and the L’Ecole de Mime Corporeal Dramatique, London under the tuition of Steve Wasson and Corinne Soum, and has been a regular participant at Anne Bogart’s SITI company training modules in New York City and Saratoga Springs.
Her company, Painted Bird, has produced three original works for Dublin Fringe Festival, Cork Midsummer Festival and Kinsale Arts Festival: Between Trees and Water, co-written with dramaturg, Thomas Conway, which won the Fishamble Best New Writing Award at Fringe; Toilers – Her Lost Play; and Beneath My Feet.
Cast: Ankur Vikal
Ankur Vikal is a trained Indian Actor and Writer living in Dublin. He has been working on plays, films and tv since 2001. His film work includes the 8 Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire. Recent projects include The Last Resort, Hunting Alice Bell and Cooper and Fry.
He worked with acclaimed theatre company Motley in Mumbai for 15 years on a diverse range of plays in 3 languages. He performed as part of an ensemble in Nirbhaya, an award-winning play by Yael Farber which toured internationally for 3 years. He was part of Rough Magic’s Rough Ideas programme in 2022, and performed in Rough Magic’s The Tempest at the Kilkenny Arts Festival.
As a writer he has received funding from the Arts Council of Ireland and Screen Ireland for his plays and films, which are in various stages of development.
He teaches acting at Bow Street Academy and the Gaiety School of Acting.
Set & Lighting Design: Jess Fitzsimons Kane
Jess is a Dublin-based lighting and set designer. She completed a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies in Trinity College Dublin and holds a first class honours for her specialisation in performance and design.
Lighting design credits include A Slow Fire (Jermyn Street Theatre, London); Linear Flux (O’Reilly Theatre); UBU (Dublin Youth Theatre), Men’s Business (Finborough Theatre, London); A Day In May, 3 Winters (TU Dublin); Country Music (Glass Mask Theatre); The Dead House (Dublin Theatre Festival); Beasts, In Heat, The King of All Birds, Spear (Dublin Fringe Festival). Assistant lighting designer credits include An Ideal Husband (Gate Theatre), The Boy and The God and His Daughter (Abbey Theatre).
Set design credits include Blister (Project Arts Centre); In Heat (Dublin Fringe Festival); and Strange Days (Smock Alley). All other work can be found at www.jessfkane.com.
Costume Design: Valentina Gambardella
Originally from Sicily, Valentina is a costume designer and maker based in Ireland, working across theatre, opera, dance, circus and music.
She is a Lecturer in Costume and Makeup Design at Munster Technological University, a committee member of the Irish Society of Performance Designers, and a board member of Cork Theatre Collective.
Her costume design credits include The Last Tape (Gare St. Lazare), Pool No Water (Everyman Theatre), Constellations (Cork Arts Theatre), CONNIE (Theatre Royal), The Beacon (Everyman Theatre), The Second Woman (Cork Midsummer), Grace (Dublin Theatre Festival), The Magic Flute (Cork Opera House), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Squared), The Glass Menagerie (Everyman Theatre), Contact and The Small Things (Corcadorca), and How it is (Gare St. Lazare).
Valentina holds a First-Class Honours MA in Media Studies from Palermo University.
Dramaturg: Jocelyn Clarke
JOCELYN CLARKE is a dramaturg and writer for stage and screen. He is currently dramaturg in residence at Miami New Drama, and an associate artist with The Civilians. He was senior dramaturg at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., theatre advisor to the Arts Council of Ireland, and the Commissioning and Literary manager of the Abbey, Ireland’s national theatre. He is a writer/supervising producer on Katori Hall’s acclaimed TV series P-Valley, and he is the executive story editor of the BBC/RTE TV series Young Offenders.
Clarke has had the privilege of working with a wide range of writers, including Katori Hall, Taylor Mac, Lydia Diamond, Abhishek Majumdar, Ayad Akhtar, Lisa Kron, Tazewell Thompson, Carl Hancock Rux, Kenneth Lin, Nathan Alan Davis, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Seamus Heaney, Raphael Khouri, Heather Christian, Samuel D. Hunter, Nicholas Griffin, Hilary Bettis, Karen Zacarias, and Laurie Anderson.
Stage Manager: Em Kelleher
With experience across theatre and film, Em has had the pleasure to work on diverse projects and productions in a wide span of roles. Previous stage management and work include Mourning is a Muscle (Dublin Fringe Festival), The Magic Glasses (Bewleys Cafe), Safelight (TalentLAB), Someone Else (The Draft), Not For Us (Crease), and Go West! (Aimsir Theatre). Other productions include The Boy, The God and His Daughter, Dublin Gothic, and The Plough and the Stars (The Abbey Theatre) as a stage technician. Em is also a proud member of the ISPD, and a graduate of The Lir Academy (2025).
Production Manager: David Farrelly
David Farrelly is a multidisciplinary theatre maker, lighting technician and set / stage builder from Kingscourt Co. Cavan working predominantly as a freelance lighting technician for theatre and live events. He is a graduate of The Lir Academy, where he completed a degree in Stage Management and Technical Theatre.
Credits include: Punk Rock (Lir Academy); Peribáñez (Lir Academy); Mary Byrne Take Me Out (National Tour); Fen (Orla Clogher, National Tour); Woman of Troy (Cavan Arts Centre); and The Letter (Backstage Theatre Longford).
Graphic Design: Martha Hegarty
Martha Hegarty is an Irish designer based between London and Cork. She holds an MA in Modern & Contemporary Art History and has worked in various creative fields across Ireland, Switzerland, Vietnam & the UK. Her main interests include set and costume design, poster design, merchandise design, and visual art. She has collaborated with the National Gallery of Ireland, Punchdrunk, National Theatre, British Library, MUBI, BFI, and more.
Promotional and Production Photography: Marcin Lewandowski
Marcin is an Ireland-based professional photographer working under the name “Sound of Photography”. Specialising in high-impact theatre, portrait, and editorial work, he crafts striking, concept-driven promotional imagery that helps productions stand out. Because theatre can only be truly experienced live on stage, Marcin sees photography as a vessel to both promote a show and preserve its memory. He focuses on capturing the fleeting, electric moments of a performance before they are gone, creating a lasting and memorable visual record. Highly collaborative, Marcin works seamlessly with production teams on major campaigns or builds striking, bespoke solo concepts from the ground up. To chat about an upcoming project or browse his portfolio, please visit soundofphotography.com.
Rehearsal Photography / Video and Archival Video: Nathan Snow
Nathan Snow is an actor, writer, and photographer from Livingston, Montana. He is a graduate of the University of Montana with a BFA in Acting, and of Trinity College Dublin with an M.Phil in Screenwriting. He remains based in Dublin. For more info visit: NathanSnow.com.
Marketing / PR: Jack O’Dea
Jack O’Dea is a marketing and communications specialist with over a decade of experience across the arts, culture and creative industries. Working across marketing, digital, social media, communications and PR, he develops audience-focused campaigns for theatre, film, festivals, visual arts, live events and creative organisations. His experience includes work with the Abbey Theatre, ANU Productions, Dublin Fringe Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival, GAZE Film Festival, THISISPOPBABY, Element Pictures, Mother, FUEL, the RDS and Blackwater Valley Opera Festival.
Advisory Producer: Gwen Van Spÿk
Gwen is a Producer, Consultant, Trainer and Mentor working across the full breadth of the live performance sector. Between 1997 and 2018 from a UK base Gwen produced shows that toured across the globe with artists including, Russell Maliphant, Carol Brown, Rosemary Butcher, Nigel Charnock, New Art Club, Hetain Patel and Lone Twin alongside producing large scale one-off event and projects. Since relocating to Ireland in 2018 Gwen has produced work with Pan Pan, Junk Ensemble and Luke Murphy’s Attic Projectsamongst others. Gwen was Dance Ireland’s inaugural Producer in Residence 2020-22 and joined the Board of Galway Dance in June 2023.
Producer: Miles Harrigan
Miles is a creative producer – based between Cape Clear Island in Co. Cork and Dublin – working in both English and Irish language theatre, dance and multidisciplinary performance.
Recent work includes: Associate Producer, with Attic Projects, on Luke Murphy’s The Prometheus Project: The Opportunist and Wellness (Dance Cork Firkin Crane ‘26), Volcano (Hong Kong Arts Festival ‘26, American Dance Festival ‘25) and Scorched Earth (Dublin Dance Festival and Galway International Arts Festival ‘25); Producer, with Once Off Productions, on Grace by Jody O’Neill (Ireland tour ‘26), and Poison by Lot Vekemans and directed by Lianne O’Shea (Mick Lally Theatre, Galway and Project Arts Centre, Dublin, ‘26), and Line Producer on Foolish Flame by Peter Power and Leon Butler (Ars Electronica Festival ‘25); and Line Producer, with Thisispopbaby, on WAKE (UK tour ‘25).
He completed an MA in Drama and Performance Studies in University College Dublin in December 2025.
