Fishamble Staff
Artistic Director
Jim Culleton
General Manager
Orla Flanagan
Literary Officer
Gavin Kostick
Office & Production Co-ordinator
Eva Scanlan
Jim Culleton – Artistic Director
Jim Culleton is the Artistic Director of Fishamble for which he most recently directed Rank, by Robert Massey, The Pride of Parnell Street by Sebastian Barry (on tour nationally and to London, France, Germany and the US), Noah and the Tower Flower by Sean McLoughlin (winner of the Stewart Parker Trust Award and the Irish Times Best New Play Award), Forgotten by Pat Kinevane (on tour nationally and to Paris, Prague, Sibiu and Edinburgh), short plays for Whereabouts (winner of the Irish Times Special Judges’ Award) and Monged by Gary Duggan (winner of the Stewart Parker Trust Award, on tour nationally, to the UK and as a staged reading in New York). He has also directed for Amnesty International, Pigsback, 7:84 (Scotland), Project Arts Centre, Amharclann de hIde, Tinderbox, The Passion Machine, The Ark, Second Age, RTE Radio 1, The Belgrade, The Abbey/Peacock, Semper Fi, TNL Canada, Scotland’s Ensemble @ Dundee Rep, Draíocht, Barnstorm, TCD School of Drama, Origin (New York) and RTE lyric fm. His productions have won or been nominated for awards, including The Irish Times Theatre Awards, Entertainment & Media Awards, In Dublin Theatre Awards and TMA Awards, and he was recently shortlisted for an Allianz Business to Arts Award. He has edited and contributed to books for New Island, Carysfort Press, Ubu, Amnesty International, European Theatre
Orla Flanagan – General Manager
Orla has recently returned to Fishamble in the role of General Manager following the completion of a fellowship in arts management at the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., a ten month programme, for which she was awarded the Diageo Sponsored Fulbright Award for the Performing and Visual Arts. She previously produced Fishamble’s productions of Noah and the Tower Flower by Sean McLoughlin, The Gist of It by Rodney Lee, Forgotten by Pat Kinevane, a revival tour of Monged by Gary Duggan and the site-specific, multi-writer production of Whereabouts (The Irish Times Theatre Award winner 2006). Prior to this, she was the Literary Officer at the Abbey Theatre since 2001. She has also worked as Marketing Administrator at the National Concert Hall and has produced a number of shows for the Dublin Fringe Festival. In 2005, she worked as a trainee dramaturg at the Sundance Theatre Lab, Utah, and the Schaubuhne’s Festival of International New Drama 05, Berlin.
Gavin Kostick – Literary Officer
As Literary Officer at Fishamble, Gavin works with new writers for theatre through script development, readings and a variety of courses. Gavin is also an award-winning playwright. He has written over a dozen plays which have been produced in Dublin, on tour around Ireland, the UK, New York, Philadelphia and Romania. His most recent works are Olive Skin Blood Mouth for the Gaiety School of Acting at Project Arts Centre and An Image for the Rose outdoors for Whiplash Theatre Company. He is currently working on new plays for Fishamble and Whiplash, and an opera with composer Raymond Deane for RTE Lyric.
Eva Scanlan – Office & Production Co-ordinator
Eva has worked with Fishamble as Office and Production Co-ordinator since October 2008. She has worked at the Arts Council and as Administrator for The Corn Exchange Theatre Company. Eva has produced plays for Lost Trolley Theatre Company for the Dublin Fringe Festival, and is producer for Lost Trolley Films. She completed her Masters in filmmaking at Canterbury Christ Church University in 2005, producing and directing an adaptation of a Chaucerean poem for her graduation film, as well as crewing on other short films. Eva has written and directed two other short films and a TV pilot for Marcia Blaine Productions.
