A NOTE FROM JULIE KELLEHER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AT THE EVERYMAN
In January 2014, as I applied for the post of Artistic Director here at the
Everyman, I crafted a 6 month programme of work that I felt would encapsulate
the excellent things the theatre already did and the brilliant things it could
possibly do. One of the elements of that programme was a beautiful play by
Lynda Radley that had been produced to acclaim in Scotland, but had yet to
receive an Irish premiere. The play speaks so strongly to many issues that we
face in contemporary life. I won’t enumerate them here – better that the play
does the talking.
A year later, as I was beginning to find a rhythm in the programming process,
and as Lynda was days away from giving birth to baby Finn, we began our
discussions on producing the play. I had thought then we might be able to
produce it for Midsummer 2016 but, in reality, it was another 12 months before
we managed to secure sufficient funding to produce it here at Midsummer 2017
instead. Looking back on that process now, I see the time, ingenuity and faith it
has taken to see this project on to our stage.
We were clear from the beginning that Tom Creed was absolutely the director
for this job. Tom and Lynda have revised the play ever so slightly for this
production with great care, clarity and compassion for the characters. Together
with a visionary design team, and an ensemble of Ireland’s finest actors, they
have crafted the work that you are about to see and three and a half years later, I
truly couldn’t be more proud.
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AWARD-WINNING PLAY BY LYNDA RADLEY
Meet the freaks of Riley’s Odditorium: George/Georgina, a hermaphrodite; Countess
Marketa, an armless bearded lady; Tiny, the world’s fattest man; Millie and Lillie, the
Siamese twins and Serena the mermaid. This travelling freak show is nearing the end of the
road, with fewer and fewer people buying tickets to the show. Futureproof is about their
quest to find the answer to the age-old question of performance: how to give audiences what
they want?
Acclaimed during its award-winning first run in Scotland in 2011, Futureproof asks us to
think about the struggle for self-hood and bodily autonomy; a theme which continues to
have relevance in Ireland today.
The Everyman is thrilled to reunite writer Lynda Radley and director Tom Creed in their
old stomping ground to give this magical play a stunning new production in its Irish
première.
DIRECTED BY TOM CREED
STARRING GERARD BYRNE, AMY CONROY, MICHAEL GLENN MURPHY, GILLIAN
McCARTHY, KAREN McCARTNEY, GINA MOXLEY & JULIE SHARKEY
SET DESIGNER PAUL O’MAHONY | LIGHTING DESIGNER SINÉAD McKENNA | COSTUME
DESIGNER DEIRDRE DWYER | SOUND DESIGNER/COMPOSER MICHAEL JOHN McCARTHY
THE EVERYMAN, CORK
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CAST
Gerard Byrne
Amy Conroy
Gillian McCarthy
Karen McCartney
Gina Moxley
Michael Glenn Murphy
Julie Sharkey
Tiny
George/Georgina
Millie
Serena
Countess Marketa
Riley
Lillie
CREATIVE TEAM
Playwright
Director
Set Designer
Lighting Designer
Costume Designer
Sound Designer & Composer
Assistant Director
Line Producer
Production Manager
Stage Manager
Asst. Stage Manager
Chief Lighting Technician
Sound Engineer
Set Construction
Scenic Painter
Make Up Consultant
Costume Asst., Wardrobe & Make-up
Production Intern
Sound Assistant
Assistant to Designer
Graphic Design
Photography
Videography
Lynda Radley
Tom Creed
Paul O’Mahony
Sinéad McKenna
Deirdre Dwyer
Michael John McCarthy
Jane Deasy
Naomi Daly
Aidan Wallace
Paula Tierney
Katrina Foley
Brian Mitchell
Luke McDonnell
Triangle Productions
Neil Carroll
Giada Orlandi
Ciara Coleman-Geaney
Deirdre Finn
Jasmine Draper
Ciara Murnane
Antonella D’Amico
Miki Barlok
Epic Productions
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FOR THE EVERYMAN
Executive Director/CEO
Artistic Director
Finance Manager
Box Office/Building Manager
Line Producer
Marketing Manager
Deputy Marketing Manager
Marketing Assistant
Publicist
Fundraising Manager
Technical Manager
Assistant Technical Manager
Technical Crew
Bar Manager
Bar Staff
Box Office
FOH Managers
Cleaning & Maintenance Staff
Seán Kelly
Julie Kelleher
Kaye Keating
Robbie Cotter
Naomi Daly
Maev O’Shea
Melanie Kavanagh
Ana Feria
Karen Murphy
Kearney Melia Communications
Anna Marie Coughlan
Mark Donovan
Brian Mitchell
Barry Brosnan, Seán Spillane,
Colin Hackett
Nathan Cassidy
Mark Hornibrook, Rachel
Flynn, Seán Brennan,
Fionn O’Leary
Mona Walshe, Sinéad Lane,
Hilda Goold, Yvonne Sullivan,
Nicole Ní Bhrútáin, Claire Lawlor
Pat Fleming, Ruby Moore,
Eadaoin O'Donoghue
Veronica O’Shea, Susan O’Brien,
Catherine Blake, Angela Guermi,
Louise Murray, Donal Norberg,
Gerry O’Connell
THE EVERYMAN BOARD Denis McSweeney (Chair), Michael White, Cllr. Tim
Brosnan, Ted Mahon-Buckley, Brendan Casserly, Cian Cotter, Marie Kelly, Dick Langford,
Julia Lynes and Michael Twomey. Seán Kelly (Secretary).
WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO
Ayoola Smart, The Arts Council, Cork Midsummer Festival, Project Arts Centre, Prompto
Dispatch, Michael Guiney’s, John Crudden, Ian Thompson, Lisa Mahony, Vincent Doherty,
Jim Healy, Joe Healy, Drew McCarthy, Joe Fahey, John Casey, Tess Healy-Maguire,
Nicholas Somers, Denise and the staff at Write Away.
Thank you to all our FOH voluntary staff.
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CREATIVE TEAM
LYNDA RADLEY PLAYWRIGHT
Lynda is a playwright and dramaturg from Cork who has
been working in professional theatre for more than a decade.
Her plays include The Interference, DORM, Berlin Love Tour,
Futureproof, The Art of Swimming, Birds and Other Things I am
Afraid of, Soap! (with Ciaran Fitzpatrick), The Heights and
Integrity.
The Interference won a Scotsman Fringe First and a
Broadway Baby award at Edinburgh Fringe 2016, and was
shortlisted for the Amnesty International Freedom of
Expression Award. It is about to be published by DPS.
DORM was shortlisted for The Bruntwood Award; one of the UK’s most prestigious
plaudits for new plays. Lynda worked as dramaturg for Mark Bruce’s dance version
of Dracula. This received a South Bank Sky Arts award and a number of Critics' Circle
awards. In 2011 Lynda won a Scotsman Fringe First for her play Futureproof; a coproduction between Dundee Rep Ensemble and the Traverse Theatre. Her solo show The
Art of Swimming was shortlisted for Meyer Whitworth and Total Theatre awards and
toured internationally.
She is an Associate Playwrights at the Playwrights’ Studio Scotland and mentors
postgraduate students of playwriting at Glasgow University. Futureproof will be produced
in Ireland, India and America in 2017.
TOM CREED DIRECTOR
Tom is a theatre and opera director based in Dublin. His
previous productions at Cork Midsummer Festival include
many productions for Playgroup, which he co-founded in
2002, including Soap!, Dark Week (nominated for Judges
Special Award at Irish Times Theatre Awards in 2005), The
Train Show, Lynda Radley’s solo performance The Art of
Swimming and most recently Berlin Love Tour, as well as
Raymond Scannell’s Mimic which went on to tour nationally
and internationally.
He was Festival Director of Cork Midsummer Festival from
2011 to 2013, and was nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award in 2012 "for original
and dynamic use of local spaces at Cork Midsummer Festival". Futureproof marks the first time he
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has created a new production in Cork in ten years. He has previously been Theatre and
Dance Curator of Kilkenny Arts Festival and Associate Director of Rough Magic Theatre
Company.
His extensive work as a theatre director over the past ten years includes productions for the
Abbey Theatre, Gate Theatre, Rough Magic, Thisispopbaby, his own company Playgroup
and a range of independent Irish companies, which have played in Ireland, the UK, Europe
and the USA. He was nominated for Best Director at the Irish Times Theatre Awards in
2007 for Attempts on her Life.
His production of Watt by Samuel Beckett with acclaimed Irish actor Barry McGovern has
been presented at the Dublin Theatre Festival, Galway Arts Festival, Edinburgh
International Festival, Perth International Festival, the Barbican Centre in London, the
Public Theatre in New York and on tour in the USA.
Recent productions include Trade by Mark O’Halloran, which won Best New Play at the
Irish Times Theatre Awards 2011, and Shibari by Gary Duggan, at the Abbey Theatre as
part of the 2012 Dublin Theatre Festival. Most recently he has directed The Skriker,
Buddleia, O Go My Man and Into the Woods with graduating acting students at Dublin’s Lir
Academy, and Rising created with Helena Enright for Dublin Youth Theatre.
Recent opera productions include Acis and Galatea, Susanna’s Secret and The Human Voice for
Opera Theatre Company, Britten’s Owen Wingrave for the Paris Opera, and world premieres
of Donnacha Dennehy’s The Hunger (Opera Theatre of St Louis and Brooklyn Academy of
Music, New York), Annelies van Parys’s Private View (Muziektheater Transparant at Opera
Vlaanderen, Operadagen Rotterdam, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg
and on tour), and Jürgen Simpson’s air india [redacted] (Turning Point Ensemble,
Vancouver). Other productions include Mavra and The Bear (Royal Conservatoire of
Scotland), and Die Zauberflöte, Suor Angelica, Mavra and Renard (Royal Irish Academy of
Music).
Private View was awarded the FEDORA Rolf Liebermann Prize for Opera in 2014, Best
Production at the Armel Opera Festival in Budapest in 2015, and was named as one of 14
notable productions of the last three years, “which are aesthetically innovative and reflect
new developments in this genre” by Music Theatre NOW in 2016. Upcoming productions
include a revival of Owen Wingrave for Opera Collective Ireland (formerly Irish Youth
Opera) in Limerick, Cork and Dublin in September 2017.
PAUL O’MAHONY SET DESIGNER
Paul's previous set designs include The Wake, Town is
Dead, Hedda Gabler, Major Barbara, The House, Pygmalion,
Macbeth, The Seafarer, Fool for Love, Saved,
Blue/Orange (Abbey Theatre); The Seagull (Corn Exchange
Theatre Company); Wuthering Heights, The Vortex, An Enemy
of the People, Little Women, Faith Healer [2010](The
Gate); Breaking Dad, Underneath the Lintel (Landmark
Productions); The Talk of the Town (Hatch Theatre
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Company / Landmark Productions/ Dublin Theatre Festival); Love and Money, Further
Than the Furthest Thing, Pyrenees, Blood, The Country (Hatch); The Importance of Being Earnest,
Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer, Is this About Sex?, Don Carlos (Rough Magic Theatre
Company); This is Our Youth, Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons, Roberto Zucco, This is Not a
Life, Pale Angel, Self-Accusation (Bedrock Productions).
He has also designed for The Lyric Theatre, Belast, Liverpool's Everyman Playhouse, The
Ark / Theatre Lovett, Siren Productions, Calipo Theatre Company, Peer to Peer Theatre
Company, Prime Cut Productions, b*spoke Theatre Company, Upstate Theatre Company,
CoisCéim Dance Theatre, Cork Opera House, Lyric Opera, Opera Theatre Company and
The Lír.
Paul trained in Fine Art and Production Design at Dún Laoghaire IADT, Co. Dublin and
the Motley Theatre Design School, London.
SINEAD MCKENNA
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Sinead has led the MFA Lighting Design programme at the
Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art since 2013. She has
received two Irish Times Theatre Awards for Best Lighting
Design (2002 and 2013).
Stage Lighting Designs include: Prodijig (Cork Opera
House); Grace Jones- the Musical of My Life (Blinder Films);
The Becket/Pinter/Friel Festival, Private Lives (2016 and
2008), Juno and the Paycock, A month in The Country, The Gigli
Concert, The Mariner, The Price and An Ideal Husband (The
Gate Theatre); Nivellis War (Cahoots NI), Maz and Bricks
(Fishamble New Play Company), Uncle Vanya and Richard III at West Yorkshire Playhouse;
The Wake, Othello, Aristocrats, Quietly, Alice in Funderland, The Plough and the Stars, 16 Possible
Glimpses, The Burial at Thebes, Howie The Rookie, Finders Keepers (Abbey Theatre, Dublin);
New Electric Ballroom (Druid Theatre Company/ International tour); Howie The Rookie (Best
Lighting Design, Irish Theatre Awards), Greener, October, Last Days of The Celtic Tiger,
Blackbird (Landmark Productions); Nivellis War (2014 New Victory Theatre NYC 2017) and
Pinoccho (Cahoots); Dubliners, (The Corn Exchange), Famished Castle, Travesties, The
Importance of Being Earnest, Improbable Frequency (New York Drama Desk Best Lighting
Design for a Musical nomination 2009), The Parker Project, Life is a Dream, Attempts on
her life and Dream of Autumn (Rough Magic);
She has also worked with Fishamble, Decadent, Gare St Lazare, Corn Exchange,
Thisispopbaby, Siren, The Lyric, Second Age, Performance Corporation, Semper Fi and
Guna Nua.
Dance and opera designs include The Wolf and Peter, Agnes, Pageant, Swept (Cois Ceim);
Invitation to a journey (Coisceim/Fishamble/Crash Ensemble); Don Giovanni (OTC); La
Traviata (Malmo Opera House); The Rape of Lucretia (IYO), The Magic Flute, The Marriage
of Figaro (Opera Theatre Company), Midsummers Night Dream (Opera Ireland).
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DEIRDRE DWYER COSTUME DESIGNER
Deirdre designs Sets and Costumes for theatre, opera, dance
and film.
She grew up in Waterford and was introduced to theatre
and designing at Waterford Youth Arts and Waterford
Spraoi. She trained in University College Cork (BA Drama
and Theatre Studies and English) and at the Royal Welsh
College of Music and Drama, Cardiff (MA in Theatre
Design). She participated, as the Designer, in Rough Magic
SEEDS3. She was awarded the first Pat Murray Bursary in
2009. She is a member of BrokenCrow’s Theatre Ensemble
for whom she has directed her own adaptation of Francis
Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. Previous work includes designs for: Autumn Royal
(Kevin Barry/The Everyman), Jezebel (Rough Magic), Friars Walk (Intersections), After
Dark (Graffiti Theatre Company), Lally the Scut (Tinderbox Theatre, Belfast), The Factory
Girls and Lovers (The Everyman), Between Trees and Water (Painted Bird Productions), Flat
Pack (Ulysses Opera Theatre), The Scarlet Letter (Conflicted Theatre Company), Bug
(BrokenCrow), Berlin Love Tour (Playgroup, Dublin, Birmingham and Cork); Dancing at
Lughnasa and Dealer’s Choice (Linbury Studio Theatre), LAMDA, London; West Side Story
and Honk (Cork Opera House); August: Ossage County (Bute Theatre, Cardiff).
MICHAEL JOHN MCCARTHY SOUND DESIGN & COMPOSER
Michael John is a Cork-born, Glasgow-based composer,
musician & sound designer.
Work for theatre includes: Glory On Earth, A Number, The
Weir, Bondagers (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); The Gorbals
Vampire, Trainspotting, Rapunzel, Into That Darkness, Fever
Dream: Southside and Sports Day (Citizens Theatre Glasgow);
In Time O’ Strife, Blabbermouth, The Tin Forest, The Day I
Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, Truant, 99…100, Dolls
(National Theatre of Scotland); George's Marvellous Medicine,
The Cheviot, The Stag & The Black, Black Oil, The BFG &
Steel Magnolias (Dundee Rep) Light Boxes, Letters Home: England In A Pink Blouse, The
Authorised Kate Bane (Grid Iron); God of Carnage, The Lonesome West, Under Milk Wood (Tron
Theatre Glasgow); JRR Tolkien’s Leaf By Niggle (Puppet State Theatre); The Interference
(Pepperdine Edinburgh); Heads Up (Kieran Hurley/Show & Tell); The Red Shed (Mark
Thomas/Lakin McCarthy); The Winter’s Tale (People’s Light & Theatre, Philadelphia); The
Coming World (Making Strange); Soap, The Art of Swimming, The Heights (Playgroup).
To date he has collaborated on the making of seven Scotsman Fringe First award winners &
has been twice-nominated for the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland in the category
Best Use of Music & Sound.
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As a musician he has toured Europe & Japan with Zoey Van Goey, Lord Cut-Glass and
Aidan Moffat. He appears as an accordionist on albums by Alasdair Roberts, RM Hubbert,
Niall Connolly, Emma Pollock, Trembling Bells & Bonnie Prince Billy amongst others.
He is lead artist on Turntable, a participatory arts music project in association with Red
Bridge.
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CAST
GERARD BYRNE
TINY
Gerard's theatre work over the past few years includes
Brendan Behan's Borstal Boyat the Gaiety Theatre, Tic Tac
by Thomas Beatty for Theatre Upstairs, Bernard Shaw's
Pygmalion for Smock Alley Theatre, The Crown and the Red
Cross at Dublin Castle, Gary Duggan's adaptation of It's a
Wonderful (bleedin') Life! for Bewleys Café Theatre, the
Abbey Theatre/Lyric Theatre Belfast co-production of Sean
O'Casey's Shadow of a Gunman and Shaw's You Never Can
Tell, also at the Abbey Theatre.
Over the course of his career, Gerard has appeared many
times at the Abbey, in productions which include Major
Barbara, Drum Belly, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Arrah-na-Pogue, The Shaughraun,
Tarry Flynn, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Macbeth, Strange
Occurrence on Ireland’s Eye, Frauds and Blinded by the Light.
He made his professional debut in The Birdtable, written and directed by Brendan Gleeson
for The Passion Machine Theatre Company and there followed a long association with the
company. He appeared in many of their most notable and award-winning productions,
including Paul Mercier's Home, Studs and Buddleia, as well as War and Brownbread, both by
Roddy Doyle.
Other Theatre work includes Emma, Silas Marner, Esther Waters (Storytellers theatre
Company), The Carnival King (Fishamble: The New Play Company), The Pope and the Witch
(Red Kettle), West Side Story (Olympia Theatre), Out of Order, Sweetie! (Tivoli Theatre),
Summerhouse (Druid), Impressions of Vincent (Van Gogh) in the Blessed Twilight, The Man in
the Iron Mask (Project Arts Centre), Jimmy Murphy's What’s Left of the Flag? (Theatre
Upstairs), Overtime (The New Theatre) and Death Row Cowboy (Smock Alley Theatre). He
has also toured extensively in the UK and Europe and has appeared at various European
theatre festivals, including both the Edinburgh Fringe and Edinburgh International
festivals. For the Abbey Theatre, he has worked in co-productions with the Royal National
Theatre in London and the RSC at the Barbican.
Gerard's film and television work includes Before I Sleep and Tupperware (Brother Films),
Crush Proof (Continent Film GmBH), After Midnight (Channel 4 Films), Domhnall Gleeson's
short film Noreen (El Zorrero Films), After (Kennedy Films) and The Truth about Claire for
RTÉ. He was the presenter of the documentary A Matter Of Life And Debt for Radharc Films
on RTÉ and for a number of years he played the main cast role of 'Malachy' on RTÉs
popular drama series Fair City. Just recently, he completed filming for the TV series The
Frankenstein Chronicles, starring Seán Bean, for ITV Encore.
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AMY CONROY
GEORGE/GEORGINA
Amy Conroy is an actor, playwright, theatre maker and
Artistic Director of HotForTheatre. Her first radio play, Hold
This, was recorded and broadcast on RTÉ Radio One in
September 2010.
Her first stage play, I ♥Alice ♥I, won the Fishamble Award for
New Writing in the 2010 Dublin Fringe Festival and has
enjoyed sold out runs in the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre
Festival, the Peacock stage of the Abbey Theatre Dublin, The
Irish Arts Centre in New York, Lókal festival in Iceland,
Glasgay Festival in Glasgow, The World Theatre Festival in
Brisbane, Australia, Auckland Arts Festival in New Zealand, Ten Days on the Island
Festival in Tasmania, Queer Theatre Festival Croatia, Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris
and The Lyric Theatre Belfast. It was broadcast on RTE Radio One, has been translated
and performed in Poland, Italy and Iceland and is published by Oberon.
Her second show, Eternal Rising of the Sun, won the Best Female Performer Award when it
premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival 2011. Her performance as Gina Devine also earned her
a nomination for Best Actress in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2011. Eternal Rising of the
Sun has enjoyed successful runs in the Dublin Theatre Festival 2012, Fringe World in
Perth, Australia, and a staged reading in Sydney Theatre Company. In September 2013,
Amy and her company HotForTheatre presented Break, which combined spoken word,
music and text. Set in an Irish secondary school it exposed and interrogated the failures and
triumphs of our education system. Luck Just Kissed You Hello premiered at the Mick Lally
Theatre as part of the Galway International Arts Festival in 2015, concluded a sell-out run
for the Dublin Theatre Festival later the same year, it was nominated for Best New Play in
the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2016 and toured nationally. Amy performed in a critically
acclaimed production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Globe Theatre, London, directed by
Caroline Byrne and most recently directed Me Sara for the Abbey Theatre.
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GILLIAN McCARTHY
MILLIE
Gillian McCarthy graduated from the Bachelor in Acting
Studies course at the Samuel Beckett Centre, TCD, in 2003.
She also won a scholarship and trained at the British
American Drama Academy, Oxford in 2002.
She was nominated Best Female Performance for her roles in
Mr. Kolpert and Platonov in The Rep Experiment (Once Off
Productions) performed during the 2007 Dublin Fringe
Festival.
Gillian’s theatre credits include Wuthering Heights (City
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Theatre Co.), Mouth (Articulate Anatomy Theatre Co.), Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Yew Tree
Theatre Co.), Bolt Upright (Angel-Exit Theatre Co.) and The Playboy Of The Western World
directed by Garry Hynes as part of DruidSynge.
Film and television projects include 13 Steps Down directed by Marek Losey for ITV and
John Crowley's Brooklyn, a feature which also co-stars Saoirse Ronan and Domhnall
Gleeson.
More recent theatre credits includes the Royal National Theatre’s touring production of
Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars directed by Wayne Jordan for the Abbey
Theatre,
Waiting For Elvis directed by Mark O’Brien at the Axis Theatre, The Sylvia directed by
Liam Halligan, Anú Productions’ Hornet’s Nest directed by Louise Lowe and Council of
Nicea directed by Isuelt Golden at Smock Alley.
Gillian also works as a drama workshop facilitator with various groups and organisations.
She is based in Dublin.
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SERENA
KAREN McCARTNEY
Karen was part of the first group to graduate from the BA in
Acting course at The Lir Academy in 2014.
Since then she has gone on to work at Druid Theatre
Company on DruidShakespeare and Big Maggie, at The Gate
Theatre on The Heiress and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and
Living in Paris. She was also part of the cast of Hostel 16 for
the Dublin Fringe Festival and Signatories at The Olympia
Theatre. Most recently she revived her role in The Train, a
new musical by Rough Magic.
She can currently be seen in Fair City playing Garda Alannah Walsh.
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GINA MOXLEY
COUNTESS MARKETA
Gina is an actor, writer and director. She is a Fine Art
graduate and has an M.Phil in Creative Writing.
Gina’s performance credits include Adler & Gibb (Tim
Crouch & Royal Court), A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Iphigenia, Prayers of Sherkin and Boss Grady’s Boys (Abbey
Theatre), The Seagull and Other Birds, Oedipus Loves You,
One, The Crumb Trail and Playing the Dane (Pan Pan),
LIPPY (Dead Centre), The Bridge Below the Town (Livin’
Dred), Christine (Derry City of Culture), Romeo and Juliet
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(Second Age), medEia and Woyzeck (Corcadorca), Woman and Scarecrow (Prime Cut), Words
of Advice for Young People, Mrs Sweeney, The Way of the World, New Morning and Digging for
Fire (Rough Magic), Duck and All That Fall (Out of Joint), and Our Father and The Playboy of
the Western World (The Almeida Theatre). Recent film and television work includes
Smalltown, Stay, Out of Here, Game of Thrones, Titanic – Blood and Steel, Cluck, and The Other
Side of Sleep.
As a writer Gina’s theatre plays include The Crumb Trail for Pan Pan; Map of M: Revised for
Contovento, Rome; A Heart of Cork for Cork Capital of Culture; Tea Set for Fishamble;
Danti-Dan for Rough Magic (Winner of Stewart Parker Award 1996); Dog House for
National Connections, U.K.; Toupees and Snare Drums for Coisceim /Abbey Theatre. Her
radio plays include Cuts, Marrying Dad, Physical Geography, The Candidate and Swans Cross.
Gina was director and dramaturg on Solpadeine is My Boyfriend, The Wheelchair on My
Face (Scotsman Fringe First winner, Edinburgh 2012) and How to Keep an Alien (Winner Best
Production, Dublin Fringe Festival 2014).
She has also published some short stories. She is an alumnus of Six in the Attic at ITI and
was Irish Patron Playwright at Wiesbaden Festival of New Plays from Europe 2010-2014.
She collaborates with artist Sean Lynch who represented Ireland with Adventure: Capital at
the Venice Biennale 2015. She performed in artist Alan Phelan’s film Our Kind at the Hugh
Lane Gallery in 2016.
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MICHAEL GLENN MURPHY
RILEY
Michael recently appeared in Theatre Upstair’s production of
Monster. Michael recently re - appeared in the role of Soapy
Smith in the TV series Klondike S2 for TG4/Abu Media.
Most recently Michael appeared in Inside The GPO (Fishamble
Theatre Company), Hamlet (Second Age), The Aul Fella a
Show in A Bag production written by Michael and directed by
Karl Quinn for the Dublin Fringe Festival 2015. Michael
appeared in both the original and remounted productions of
the multi award-winning trilogy of Tom Murphy plays
DruidMurphy directed by Garry Hynes for Druid Theatre Company, having opened in the
Galway Arts festival and toured to New York and the UK. Michael went on to appear in
Faith a new play by Paul Meade in the Civic Theatre and on tour.
His other recent theatre appearances include Dinny in Enda Walsh’s multi award-winning
play The Walworth Farce, directed by Mikel Murfi for Druid Theatre Company on national
and international tour to UK, Canada, America, Australia and New Zealand, as Vincent in
Bernard Farrell’s new play Bookworms (and its recent remount) directed by Jim Culleton at
the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and as Major Coffin in Arrah Na Pogue directed by Mikel Murfi
at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. He appeared in Fishamble’s The End of The Road written by
Gavin Kostick and directed by Louise Lowe for Temple Bar Trust, in Performance
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Corporation’s Slattery’s Sago Saga directed by Jo Mangan and in The Colleen Bawn at the
Project Arts Centre and on tour across Ireland, directed by Jimmy Fay for Bedrock Theatre
Company. Michael also appeared as The Judge in Roddy Doyle’s adaptation of The
Government Inspector directed by Jimmy Fay at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and most recently
as Capulet/Laurence in Romeo and Juliet directed by Conor Hanratty for Second Age
Theatre Company.
His other theatre appearances include Shining City (Rapture Theatre and on tour to Scotland
and the UK), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Making Strange Theatre Company); The
Shadow of a Gunman, Molly Sweeney, Whistle in the Dark (Glasgow Citizens Theatre), Molly
Sweeney (The National Theatre of Scotland); The Weir, A Whistle in the Dark (Haymarket
Theatre), Beauty and the Beast (Belgrade Theatre); The Flags, Up on the Roof and The
Lonesome West (Hull Truck), Playing the Victim (Royal Court/Told By An Idiot), The
Firework-Maker’s Daughter (Sheffield Crucible/Told By An Idiot), When We Are Rich,
Brothers of the Brush (The Nuffield Southampton), Of Mice and Men (The Octagon
Bolton/York Theatre Royal and on tour to the Middle East), The Lonesome West (Bolton
Octagon); Zoo Story, The Architect and the Emperor of Abbysinia (The Gate Theatre, London);
Of Mice and Men (Bolton Octagon); SVEJK (Notting Hill Gate Theatre), Kafka’s Dick, A
Midsummer Night’s Dream and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (York Theatre Royal), A Midsummer
Night’s Dream (Northcolt Theatre, Exeter), The Playboy of the Western World (Abbey
Theatre, Dublin; Bristol Old Vic and Leicester Haymarket), Villette (Sheffield Crucible), Of
Mice and Men (Centreline/Baroque Productions), A Sentimental Journey (Regents Park Open
Air Theatre), Woyzeck and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Compass Theatre), Othello
(Waterman’s Arts Centre and National Tour), Spirit of the Frontier (Royal Shakespeare
Company Fringe), The Tinker’s Wedding (King’s Head Theatre), A Light for the Florescent
Witch (Hackney Empire) and A Christmas Carol (Shaw Theatre).
Film and TV work include Swansong (Florin Film), Taggart (STV), Like Father, Like Son
(ITV), Silent Witness (BBC), Catherine Cookson’s Dinner of Herbs (Festival Films), Big Bad
World (Carlton), Rough Treatment (World Productions), Rope Trick (BBC), Colour blind
(Festival Films) and The Bill (Carlton). Radio credits include Smokes and Daggers and
Forgetting Curve (BBC Northern Ireland).
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JULIE SHARKEY
LILLIE
Julie is a graduate of the Gaiety School of Acting.
Recent theatre includes The Secret Garden for Brokencrow,
Remember to Breathe Lustrum Award Winner Edinburgh Fringe
2016, The Big Wall for Hawkswell Theatre Sligo, A Game
Called Lucy for Last Serenade, Goodnight Irene, Raccoon, There
Are Little Kingdoms for Meridian Theatre Company The Three
Fat Women of Antibes, The Wedding Present, A Town Called
F***ed for Last Serenade Theatre Harold and Sophie, Piccolo
Milan for Abbey Theatre Merchant of Venice for Cork Opera
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House The Glass Menagerie for The Everyman Bedbound, Frozen for Asylum Lives Worth
Living, Lovers: Winners for Graffiti. Julie is delighted to be returning to The Everyman this
summer playing Kate in Dancing at Lughnasa.
TV/Film work include Smalltown, Red Rock, Fair City, The Clinic, Mammal, The Runway,
Death of a Superhero, Situations Vacant, 32a.
Julie works extensively as a voice over artist and narrator.
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