Sorcha is a poet, writer, actor and facilitator. She has written 2 performance poetry shows, Who am Ireland? and Remember. She wrote her first Spoken Word play; For Rachel – 2 Squirrels, as part of the Home Theatre Ireland project in Draíocht, Dublin 2018 for the Dublin Theatre Festival. She has been working since on a longterm project with women in addiction recovery with Ashleigh House and Draíocht Blanchardstown called Amplify thanks to Create Ireland.

In 2019, with the Hawkswell Theatre Sligo, she took part in a creative residency with Palestinian poet Rafeef Ziadah culminating in a performance on Culture Night 2019 of a new piece called Medusa with live original music from Dee Armstrong and Lughaidh Armstrong Mayock. Medusa is now being developed further with the support of Hawkswell Sligo. Sorcha is a member of the team that organizes PalFest Ireland, an Irish arts festival in support of Palestine. In 2017, she travelled to Jenin Refugee Camp in Northern Palestine where she completed a course in Theatre and Cultural Resistance with The Freedom Theatre.

She is currently working as a writing facilitator on Amir Abualrob’s project Taa Marbuta supported by Create Ireland. Sorcha is very happy to be working with Fishamble again on the brilliant Tiny Plays series.

Emmet Kirwan is an award-winning actor and playwright from Tallaght in Dublin.

He studied at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin. He first worked with Fishamble: The New Play Company 20 years ago on their play Monged and has worked with company many times since and is delighted to be joining the company again for The Leap.

He has worked in Irish and English Theatre performing many times on stages such as The Abbey, The Gate, Project, Donmar warehouse, The National Theatre of Britain, and The Soho, as well as working with leading theatre companies such as Rough Magic, Fishamble, This is Pop Baby, Guna Nua, Pan Pan, and Barabbas.

He has numerous film and television credits most recently the films Magpie and Spilt Milk. As actor playwright his play Dublin Oldschool won the Stewart Parker Major trust award, it toured internationally and transferred to the National Theatre in Britain. He also wrote and starred in the film version of the same name for Warrior & Element Pictures .

​His most recent work as an Actor and playwright Accents  (a collaboration with the musical artist Talos) toured nationwide. His plays are published by Methuen drama. He is also known for writing and starring in the RTE 2 comedy series Sarah and Steve for Accomplice television.

Mary’s stage performances have toured Europe, China and the United States. She received Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards with MAMCA, The First Irish Theatre Festival in New York and The Irish Times.

She has over 60 screen credits. She was nominated for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress at the Irish Film and Television Awards for her role as Janet in Love Hate. Other notable productions include Valhalla, Penny Dreadful, Adam and Paul, The Magdalene Sisters, Dead Still and Let the Wrong One In.

She voiced numerous animations and radio plays and she’s the recipient of the Best Actress Award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2023 for her performance in the Pride of Parnell Street, produced by Fishamble Theatre Company.

Mary is the director of Visions Drama School.