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Did you miss us?! Don’t worry, we’re back with a bang as this week Carole has not one, not two but three wonderful guests!

Paddy Murphy is a film-maker from Clare/Limerick [call it border confusion] who has directed 3 feature films and over a dozen shorts with Celtic Badger Media. Paddy Murphy's second feature film The Perished world premiered at FrightFest in 2019, which is the UK's largest horror festival. Paddy also likes to get scared by digital things as a twitch streamer & youtube bai.

Sinéad Morrissey is a Cork based writer and actor who misses hugs and fresh pints of Guinness very much.
Lulu is the first time Sinéad will be taking her talents in front of the camera and off the stage after directing acting and writing various Limerick projects during her time in UL.

Mikey Casey is a writer/actor from Limerick. Mikey graduated from Mary I with a BA in Contemporary Applied Theatre Studies and has since both been working in theatre and film. Mikey also plays guitar very poorly but no one has had the heart to ask him to stop.

Here’s the link to their Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaelcaseydirector/lulu-and-the-electric-dreamboat

This week Carole chats to Brynn Murphy, a theatre programmer, marketer and producer originally from Chicago and the American Midwest. She has worked with many highly-esteemed arts organisations including Live Nation, Cirque du Soleil, Joffrey Ballet, The Lyric Opera, Broadway In Chicago, Landmark Productions as well as many Broadway and West End touring shows. She has earned degrees from DePaul University as well as University College Dublin.

Hi everyone! Welcome back to this week's episode of Irish Theatre At Play. This week, Carole is joined by Katie McCann to chat about all things theatre, directing, and making art in the Post-COVID world.

This week Carole chats to Tara Doolan, Pius McGrath, and James Corr about the very exciting live production of ‘Waiting for Poirot’ currently on in Limerick city in connection with the Lime Tree Theatre. The gang chat all things live theatre in Covid. If you’re interested in the show, please see the Lime Tree Theatre website for more details.

Anna is a freelance theatre director, playwright, and physical theatre practitioner.  

Since training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she was the youngest ever recipient of the Elsa Roberts Award for Directing, Anna founded Quintessence Theatre in Louth, with whom she is the Artistic Director. Since then Anna has created plays all across Ireland and the UK, specialising in collaborative physical ensemble storytelling on socially provocative issues. Anna was an Education Practitioner with Shakespeare's Globe, London, and a Young Creative Associate of the Pleasance Theatre, London and Edinburgh.  CRACKS, an originally devised play exploring suicide and mental illness in Ireland, toured nationally in 2018, and her own adaptation of Bram Stoker’s DRACULA won the Broadway World Ireland Regional Award 2018/2019 for Best New Play. BEHIND LOCKED DOORS, a devised play exploring abuse in lockdown, premiered last month in the Drogheda Arts Festival, and can be streamed on their…

​... and all 4 episodes can be streamed for free on their YouTube Channel here: https://youtube.com/channel/UCQyxh1NGoS8YDlCsvl_zhfg

Her latest digital play, AFLOAT, with Sunday’s Child Theatre, will play as part of the digital programme of Summerhall in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival next month.

You can get more info and tickets to watch it here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/afloat-by-eva-o-connor-and-hildgegard-ryan

Website: https://annasimpson050987.wixsite.com/annasimpson

Insta: @the_director_anna_simpson  

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quintessencetheatreco/

Twitter: @annasimpson87 @quintessencepro

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Drogheda Arts Festival is back with an exclusive programme of events; online, offsite, outdoors and live over summer 2021. Beginning on the June Bank Holiday..

This week Carole chats to comedian Ailish McCarthy. Since her arrival on the comedy scene in 2019, Ailish has performed at the Vodafone Comedy Festival, MC'd at the Hazelwood tent in electric picnic, and performed in YukYuks in Vancouver.

During the pandemic she co hosts a weekly show on Thursday called the party tits, appeared as a guest on Virgin Medias hooked on podcast, Komedians International (Comedy Central) and was the host of the Comedy Crowd Euros Campaign. She was the first comic and first female comic to reach 1,000 laughs on Jason Byrnes iLaugh app. She is also one of the members of the Comedy safety standards, promoting safety in comedy

Her two hander comedy WingWoman will be programmed as part of the underbelly at Edinburgh Fringe, and Brighton Fringe in 2022.

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