Announcing our Project Artists 2025 – 2028

Since 1966, Project Arts Centre has been a catalyst for radical artistic projects. We work with some of the most exciting artists making work today, both nationally and internationally. We make space for artists to experiment, test and build something new. Our Project Artists initiative enables artists to discover, develop and disseminate their work to new and old audiences and communities at Ireland’s leading centre for contemporary art in Ireland. We are thrilled to welcome three new artists to our Project Artists lineup! And here they are…

Pea Din­neen is a play­wright, cabaret artist and lyri­cist based in Dublin. Much of her work dis­cusses trans­gen­der iden­tity in con­tem­po­rary Ireland. She has been awarded both the Markievicz Award and the Next Gen­er­a­tion Artist Award by the Arts Coun­cil of Ireland. As a facil­i­ta­tor, Pea has led the Trans­form­ing Stages devel­op­ment pro­gramme with Out­burst Queer Arts Fes­ti­val, the first the­atre men­tor­ship pro­gramme on the island of Ire­land specif­i­cally for trans artists. As a cabaret artist, Pea is the co- founder of award-winning queer cabaret col­lec­tive EGG. Cur­rently she serves as Chair­per­son of Irish The­atre Institute’s Equal­ity, Diver­sity and Inclu­sion coun­cil. Pea is a Next Wave Play­wright with The Abbey the­atre 2024/ 2025

BREADLINE are a young Dublin based theatre company that are big, bold, and bursting with drama, dedicated to bringing heartstopping, side-splitting working class stories to you as a primary source. Founded by Thommas Kane Byrne (TKB) & Ericka Roe, with longtime collaborator Ciara Ivie (later joining as director), they bring raw, side splitting, heart swelling working class stories to the stage with all the grit and glamour of the streets that inspired it. From the the critically acclaimed St. Mary’s Mansions trilogy to live performances in flat complexes across Dublin, they want to make going to the theatre as normal as going to the cinema for working class people and as fun as going for a bop. Theatre by Nitbags, for Nitbags, about Nitbags 💅

Salvador, Bahia-born dance artist Alessandra Azeviche has been breaking boundaries in Ireland since 2018. A leading Afro-Brazilian artist in Ireland, she connects ancestral movements to contemporary dance.  Founder of the multicultural, counter-colonial Afro-Brazilian community Quilombo Terra in 2022, Azeviche also sits on the board of Dublin Dance Festival. Her acclaimed solo debut ‘Terra’ was performed at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2024, and she has also performed in Irish Modern Dance Theatre shows, and as part of Hot Brown Honey at Dublin Fringe 2022.