Artistic Director: Jim Culleton
General Manager: Marketa Dowling
Literary Officer: Gavin Kostick
Jim Culleton
Jim is the Artistic Director of Fishamble: The New Play Company for which he most recently directed Silent by Pat Kinevane (Irish tour, and Edinburgh where it won Fringe First and Herald Angel Awards, and Paris), Turning Point (in association with ADI, in Dublin and Washington DC), Big Ole Piece of Cake by Sean McLoughlin, Forgotten by Pat Kinevane (on tour to almost 60 Irish venues, 8 European countries and recently to New York, Boston and Washington DC), the multi award-winning The Pride of Parnell Street by Sebastian Barry (Irish tours, London, New Haven, Paris, Wiesbaden, New York), Strandline by Abbie Spallen, Handel’s Crossing by Joseph O’Connor (Dublin Handel Festival), the multi award-winning Noah and the Tower Flower by Sean McLoughlin (Dublin, Bulgaria, Romania), Rank by Robert Massey (Dublin Theatre Festival and London), short plays for the award-winning Whereabouts, and the awardwinning Monged by Gary Duggan (Irish and UK tour).
He has also directed for the Abbey & Peacock, 7:84 (Scotland), Project Arts Centre, Amharclann de hÍde, Amnesty International, Pigsback, Tinderbox, The Passion Machine, The Ark, Second Age, RTÉ Radio 1, The Belgrade, Semper Fi, TNL Canada, Scotland’s Ensemble @ Dundee Rep, Draíocht, Barnstorm, Roundabout, TCD School of Drama, the Irish Council for Bioethics, Origin (New York) and RTÉ lyric fm.
He recently directed Boss Grady’s Boys by Sebastian Barry, for Noel Pearson at the Gaiety, and Bookworms by Bernard Farrell for the Abbey. Current projects include a range of training, mentoring and development projects, all for Fishamble.
Marketa Dowling 
Marketa is the General Manager and Producer of Fishamble: The New Play Company for which she produced The End of the Road by Gavin Kostick (offsite in Temple Bar, Dublin), Silent by Pat Kinevane (Irish tour and to Edinburgh and Paris), Forgotten by Pat Kinevane (throughout Ireland and to Paris, Prague, Sibiu and Edinburgh), the multi award-winning The Pride of Parnell Street by Sebastian Barry (Irish tour, London, New Haven – US, Paris and Wiesbaden), a reading of My Name Is Rachel Corrie (Dublin) in association with Amnesty International and co-produced and stage directed Rank by Robert Massey (Dublin Theatre Festival and London).
Marketa’s producing credits for The Performance Corporation include: Slattery’s Sago Saga by Arthur Riordan (Dublin and Irish tour), Power Point by Tom Swift (Dublin and Tampere, Finland), Theatrical Espressos KISS USA and GAA! (Washington DC, in co-production with Solas Nua) and the Irish premiere of the multi-disciplinary piece Cool Fresh Milk (Dublin). In 2010, Marketa also produced The Performance Corporation’s SPACE Production Award in association with Absolut Fringe: From the Heart by Louise White and Kate Nic Chonaonaigh, True Enough! by Making Strange and Help Me! Help Me! by Priscilla Robinson.
Gavin Kostick
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 The End of the Road for Fishamble, This is What we Sang for Kabosh (Belfast and New York), The Sit and Fight Night on tour 2011 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 RTÉ Lyric.
As a performer he performed Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: Complete, a six hour show for Absolut Fringe, Dublin Theatre Festival and The London Festival of Literature at the Southbank.
