Jim Culleton is the Artistic Director of Fishamble: The New Play Company, for which he has directed productions on tour throughout Ireland, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US. His productions for Fishamble have won Olivier, The Stage, Scotsman Fringe First, and Irish Times Best Director awards.

Jim has also directed for the Abbey, the Gaiety, the Belgrade, 7:84 Scotland, Project, Amharclann de hÍde, Tinderbox, Passion Machine, the Ark, Second Age, Dundee Rep, CoisCéim/Crash Ensemble/GIAF, Frontline Defenders, Amnesty International, Little Museum of Dublin, Fighting Words, Soho Theatre, Scripts Festival, and Baptiste Programme.  He has directed audio plays for Audible, BBC, RTÉ Radio 1, and RTÉ lyric fm. He has directed for Vessel and APA (Australia), TNL (Canada), Solas Nua, Mosaic, and Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Odyssey (LA), Origin, Irish Arts Center, New Dramatists, and 59E59 (Off-Broadway), as well as for Trafalgar Theatre Productions on the West End, and IAC/Symphony Space on Broadway.  Jim has taught for NYU, NUI, GSA, Uversity, the Lir, Villanova, Notre Dame, UM, UMD, JNU, and TCD.

Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney met at the University of Cambridge where they began making theatre together and ran the University’s Ireland society. They then formed Pan Narrans Theatre in Belfast. Last year they co-wrote the award-winning My Left Nut, which was developed through the Show in a Bag programme run by Fishamble, The ITI and The Dublin Fringe. Over the past year they’ve been a part of the BBC Belfast Voices screenwriting scheme, have written for BBC NI’s Soft Border Patrol and were shortlisted to write for BBC 3’s The Break.

As an actor Michael has worked with The Abbey, The Lyric, Tinderbox, NI Opera and has appeared on Game of Thrones, Death and Nightingales, Krypton, and Soft Border Patrol. He is currently acting in Taming of the Shrew and Measure for Measure for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2019 season.

Michael Patrick (actor & writer from Belfast) and Oisín Kearney (director & writer from Warrenpoint) met at the University of Cambridge where they began making theatre together and ran the University’s Ireland society. They then formed Pan Narrans Theatre in Belfast. Last year they co-wrote the award-winning My Left Nut, which was developed through the Show in a Bag programme run by Fishamble, The ITI and The Dublin Fringe. Over the past year they’ve been a part of the BBC Belfast Voices screenwriting scheme, have written for BBC NI’s Soft Border Patrol and were shortlisted to write for BBC 3’s The Break.

Oisín directs both theatre and documentary films. He localised Willy Russell’s script of Educating Rita to 1980s Belfast for the Lyric Theatre and was Assistant Director on the project. He was Assistant Director on the Lyric’s production of Good Vibrations and worked closely with Colin Carberry and Glen Patterson on their translation of the story from screen to stage. Oisín has Assistant Produced a number of feature length documentaries and has directed a number of short films. His first feature as Director will premiere on April 28 at Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto.

Mark Galione’s designs in Ireland include works for Irish Modern Dance Theatre, CoisCéim, Dance Theatre of Ireland, The Peacock, Fíbín, Hands Turn, Classic Stage Ireland, Barabbas, Vesuvius, The Derry Playhouse, The Ark, Peer to Peer, Gonzo, Theatre Lovett, Second Age Theatre Company, Barnstorm, Riot and I’m Your Man for THISISPOPBABY and Fishamble: The New Play Company most recently Swing and Inside The GPO.

Recent TV includes Jack Lukeman 27 Club, All Ireland Schools Talent Search, TG4 – Country Music Legends and The All Porter Christmas Show RTE2. Mark is a staff Lighting Designer at High Res Lighting.
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Denis has previously worked with The Abbey Theatre, The Gate Theatre, Fishamble, Rough Magic, CoisCéim, Junk Ensemble, Corn Exchange, Northlight Theatre, Chicago and Beijing Children’s Art Theatre. He won the Irish Times theatre award for Best Soundscape in 2011 and 2019. He was also a nominee in 2015 for Junk Ensemble and Brokentalker’s ‘It Folds’. Denis was an associate artist with the Abbey in 2008 and was a participant on Rough Magic’s ADVANCE programme in 2012.

​Composition for Film and Television includes the feature films One Night In Millstreet (Fastnet Films) Older than Ireland (Snack box Films), His and Hers (Venom Film), The Irish Pub (Atom Films) and the animation series Will Sliney’s Storytellers (Fastnet Films).

Saileóg O’Halloran ‘s Theatre credits include: The Wakefires (ANU Productions & Cork Midsummer), Dances Like a Bomb (Junk Ensemble), Duck Duck Goose (Fishamble), The Secret Space (ANU Productions), To The Lighthouse (Cork Everyman & Hatch Productions), The Great Hunger (Abbey Theatre), The Fall of the Second Republic (Abbey Theatre & Corn Exchange), Danse Macabre (Macnas 2019), Becketts Room (Dead Centre), The Alternative (Fishamble), The Bluffers Guide to Suburbia (Cork Midsummer & DTF 2019), The Anvil (ANU & Manchester International Festival),
The Misfits (Corn Exchange), Trial of the Century’s (Dublin Fringe 2018), Macnas 2018, Copperface Jacks the Musical (Verdant), GPO1818 (Fishamble), The Half of It (MOMMO), The Shitstorm (Dublin Fringe), The Seagull (Corn Exchange) To Hell In A Handbag (Show In A Bag/Tiger Dublin Fringe), Town is Dead (Peacock Theatre), Embodied (Dublin Dance Festival), Shibboleth (Peacock Theatre), Chekhov’s First Play (Dead Centre), Thirteen, Irish Times Judges Special Award (ANU Productions) and Wake (Chamber Made Opera).

Bryan trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre at Trinity College Dublin.

Noteworthy performances include My Foot/My Tutor with Articulate Anatomy (Best Male Performance at Dublin Fringe Festival 2004), Barabbas Theatre Company’s Johnny Patterson: The Singing Irish Clown (Irish Times Theatre Award Best Supporting Actor 2009) and regularly performs his one man show Beowulf: The Blockbuster which originated as a Show In A Bag and has toured Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, Australia, New York and was the number one success of the Edinburgh Fringe 2014 winning the STAGE Award for Acting Excellence.

Other notable productions include The President at The Gate Theatre with Olwen Fouèrè and Hugo Weaving, Act Without Words 2 by Samuel Beckett for Company SJ which performed at the Barbican in London and the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. He also regularly performs in a two hander adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with Aaron Monaghan nationally, at The Ark and The Pavilion for Christmas 2023. He played Quasimodo in Angela’s Ashes: The Musical in 2017 & 2019 and Lenehan in the returning production of James Joyce’s ULYSSES at The Abbey Theatre in Oct 2017 & July 2018 (Nominated for Irish Times Theatre Award Best Ensemble). Other recent productions include TARRY FLYNN with Livin’ Dred, (Nominated for Irish Times Theatre Award Best Ensemble), Beowulf : The Blockbuster, 14 Voices From The Bloodied Field and The Long Christmas Dinner at The Abbey Theatre in Dec 2021 & 2022 (Nominated for Irish Times Theatre Award Best Ensemble). He recently performed at DTF 2023 followed by an Irish Tour of The Boy Who Talked To Dogs by Amy Conroy as a SLINGSBY/Draiocht co-production which played at the 2021 Adelaide Festival and toured Australia for 2022 prior to its Irish 2023 tour. Bryan played DAD in Jody O Neil’s GRACE with Graffiti Theatre for Cork Midsummer Festival, Baboro Arts Festival For Children and in Dublin Theatre Festival.

As director Bryan has directed The Whispering Chair for Livin’ Dred in 2022, Fight
Night, and The Games People Play for RISE productions written by Gavin Kostick which
won Best Actor and the Bewleys Little Gem Award at Dublin Fringe 2010 and Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2013 respectively.

As Movement Director recent productions include Considering Matthew Shepard at the NCH, Fishamble’s DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE, Druid’s Beauty Queen of Leenane, Umbrella’s Glowworm, Fishamble’s Inside The GPO, Yew Tree’s Alone It Stands, Pat Moylan’s Stones In His Pockets, Tarry Flynn & The Skriker at the Lir Academy, BrokenCrow’s Levin & Levin, at the Abbey Fool For Love, The Wake and for Second Age Hamlet and Macbeth.

For RTE Bryan has appeared on RTE Jr’s The Beo Show teaching drama to young children, written four short stories for the Tell Me A Story series, written and performed a Christmas short story for the Cór Na Nóg Christmas Concert and directed Fight Night for RTE’s Radio Drama season. He has been cast in Series Two of Tim Burton’s WEDNESDAY for Netflix in 2024. Bryan has taught Physical Theatre at The Lir Academy of Dramatic Art, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Accademia D’ell Arte, Arezzo, Tuscany.

Gavin Kostick is a playwright, literary manager and independent dramaturg.
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His works have been produced nationally and internationally. Favourite works for Fishamble include The Ash Fire, The Flesh Addict, The End of The Road and Invitation to a Journey (with CoisCeim and Crash Ensemble). The Leap is Gavin’s first play for children.
Further works include This is What We Sang for Kabosh, Fight Night, The Games People Play and At the Ford for Rise Productions and Gym Swim Party with Danielle Galligan in co-production with the O’Reilly Theatre. He wrote the libretto for the opera The Alma Fetish composed by Raymond Deane, performed at the National Concert Hall. 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.
Gavin is currently the literary manager of Fishamble: The New Play Company, a tutor in playwriting and dramaturgy in both The Lir Academy and Trinity College Dublin as well as being a core mentor on the Tenderfoot Transition Year programme for young writers at the Civic Theatre.
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Particular favourite projects that Gavin has initiated and delivered with Fishamble include Show in a Bag (with Dublin Fringe and The Irish Theatre Institute), The New Play Clinic, The Dublin Fringe New Writing Award, Tiny Plays for Ireland and A Play for Ireland.
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Both for Fishamble, and as an independent dramaturg, Gavin’s projects and works he has supported have gained significant national and international award recognition including amongst others Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, BBC Stewart Parker Trust, Zebbie Awards, Dublin Fringe Awards, Business to Arts, Olivier, Scotsman Fringe First, Herald Angel and Archangel and New York Critics’ Pick.

His own plays have also received similar national and international award recognition. Gavin has recently completed a new version of The Odyssey, supported by Kilkenny Arts Festival, ClassicsNow.

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Eva  Scanlan is the Executive Director at Fishamble: The New Play Company.

Formerly producer at Fishamble, recent productions include Fight Night by Gavin Kostick (2025), Taigh/Tŷ/Teach, a trilingual co-production with partners in Scotland and Wales (2024), In Two Minds by Joanne Ryan (2023), Heaven by Eugene O’Brien (2022), Outrage by Deirdre Kinahan (2022), Duck Duck Goose by Caitríona Daly (2021), The Treaty by Colin Murphy (2021), Embargo by Deirdre Kinahan (2020), The Alternative by Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney (2019), Rathmines Road by Deirdre Kinahan (2018), On Blueberry Hill by Sebastian Barry (2017-2021), Inside The GPO by Colin Murphy (2016) and Fishamble’s award-winning plays by Pat Kinevane King, Before, Silent, Underneath and Forgotten, and many other productions on tour in Ireland and around the world.

Eva produced The 24 Hour Plays: Dublin at the Abbey Theatre in Ireland (2012-2026), in association with The 24 Hour Plays, New York as a fundraiser for Dublin Youth Theatre. She has worked on The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway and The 24 Hour Musicals at the Gramercy Theatre in New York. Previously, she was Producer at terraNOVA Collective in New York (2012-2015) and has worked on theatre productions, events and conferences at the Bushwick Starr, 59E59 Theaters, New Ohio Theatre, the New School, the Park Avenue Armory, and Madison Square Garden.

Michael Patrick (actor & writer from Belfast) and Oisín Kearney (director & writer from Warrenpoint) met at the University of Cambridge where they began making theatre together and ran the University’s Ireland society. They then formed Pan Narrans Theatre in Belfast. Last year they co-wrote the award-winning My Left Nut, which was developed through the Show in a Bag programme run by Fishamble, The ITI and The Dublin Fringe. Over the past year they’ve been a part of the BBC Belfast Voices screenwriting scheme, have written for BBC NI’s Soft Border Patrol and were shortlisted to write for BBC 3’s The Break.

Oisín directs both theatre and documentary films. He localised Willy Russell’s script of Educating Rita to 1980s Belfast for the Lyric Theatre and was Assistant Director on the project. He was Assistant Director on the Lyric’s production of Good Vibrations and worked closely with Colin Carberry and Glen Patterson on their translation of the story from screen to stage. Oisín has Assistant Produced a number of feature length documentaries and has directed a number of short films. His first feature as Director will premiere on April 28 at Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto.

Ciara Elizabeth Smyth is an award-winning playwright from Ireland. She was the chosen playwright on Rough Magic’s SEEDS programme 2018-2020 and has recently completed a commission with the Abbey Theatre for Dear Ireland 2020.

In 2019 her play SAUCE was awarded the artist support initiative DUETS and presented in Dublin Fringe Festival (nominated for the Little Gem Award, Judge’s Choice Award and Spirit of Wit Award).

SAUCE is due to be published by Nick Hern Books in late 2020 and is being adapted into a television series. Currently, Ciara is under commission with the National Youth Theatre of Ireland and is a resident artist in the MAC Theatre, Belfast. Ciara is represented by Curtis Brown.