PRODUCTIONS & EVENTS

—Upcoming 2024: Producer/Originator: Hard hat, soft heart: a celebration of the songs of Tony Reidy. Forthcoming event (20 April) featuring up to two dozen musicians, including CODA and The Clew Bay Critters.

— 2024 (in progress):Co-ordinator/Originator of Finglas-based project, SPARK Northwest: a series of intergenerational, multi-arts workshops, culminating in two showcases: one for Bealtaine, as well as a youth led activity for Creative Ireland’s Cruinniú na nÓg in Dublin on June 15, 2024. Project sponsored by Dublin City Council in collaboration with the Northwest Partnership.

— 2022: Production coordinator of Unmasked: Cobblers Lockdown Sessions, a CD archiving Cobblers’ weekly music session which transferred to Zoom. I performed an original song, created the website and promoted the CD on Midwest Radio. Proceeds went to Westport Lions Club.  

— 2019: Director, Beetroot by Lucy Montague Moffatt, with members of Floating Islands Youth Theatre at Westport Town Hall Theatre

— 2018: Produced and performed in variety show Pat McCabe’s Heartland with music (including live contributions by Lisa Hannigan & Tony Reidy) and text with Pat McCabe.

— 2018: Director: Change the Channel. Facilitated creation, production and direction of seven original short plays with original songs and compositions by members of Floating Islands Youth, Westport Town Hall Theatre.  

— 2017: Lucky Town, Floating Islands Youth Theatre, wrote, directed and produced a musical with nine original songs (a modified version of its predecessor, Broken Town) with a cast of 21 and a live band.  

— 2017: Organiser of Residential Singing Event with 60 singers, led by Sian Croose, Community Choir Leader, at Killadangan House, Westport, Co. Mayo

— 2016: Broken Town, Mayo Youth Theatre, Ballina Arts Centre, Co. Mayo.

— 1999: Tea and Bedlam, Theatre for the New City, New York

— 1998: Five Bullets, Horace Mann Theatre, New York

— 1997: Last Rites,  Shapiro Theatre, New York (staged reading)

One-act plays:
—Wanted (Not Wanted) in the West (Current Theatrics: 2015 Festival of Shorts, McMullans Pub, Las Vegas)
— Occupy Croagh Patrick (Current Theatrics: 2012 Irish Festival of Culture, Cleveland)
— History Lesson (same festival in 2011)
One Woman Turning (2006:  Painted Filly Productions, Filmbase).
— Developed my scripts Bedman (1998) and Meme (1997) with 25 Gaiety School of Acting students I taught for a semester in 1998. Performed at Project at the Mint.