Role: co-creator/composer and performer
Ensemble: Kirkos
Beginner’s Guide To Slow Travel is an immersive, multidisciplinary performance collaboratively devised, composed and performed by Sebastian Adams, Robert Coleman, Yseult Cooper Stockdale, Jane Hackett, Hannah Miller and Joan Somers Donnelly.
The piece was commissioned by New Music Dublin, Sound Festival Aberdeen and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and supported by Culture Ireland and PRS Foundation Beyond Borders and performed at all three festivals. The Irish premiere was at the National Concert Hall as part of New Music Dublin.
June 2023 - October 2024
Photos by Molly Keane
Role: collective member, truck driver residency coordinator/music programmer
A temporary cultural centre for truck drivers in and around a former cafe at a truck stop on the E17 in Gentbrugge, Belgium. The project was initiated by Does Vandoesselaere, and run collectively by Does, Elien Ronse, Jana Vasiljevic, Stijn Van Dorpe, Ibrahim Ezzat El Hendy, Merel Stolker, Gilles De Moor, Gyulseren Van Dort, Jeroen Verscheure and myself.
September 2020 - February 2021
photos by Ibrahim Ezzat El Hendy and others
Role: Facilitator (2017-2019), Performer and Maker (2017-2024)
Company: Outlandish Theatre Platform
Performances: NOTHING, Marino College, Five Lamps Arts Festival, March 2018 (top three images); PATTERNS, Rita Kelly Theatre, The Coombe Hospital, December 2018 (next three images and video); Love&Charity, Mother Tongues Festival, The Civic Theatre, 2020; BODIES, film work, BODIES/RUINS symposium, 2021; FEAR, Smock Alley Theatre, 2022
Outlandish Theatre is a participatory theatre platform. Open Theatre Practice is their weekly open performance-making workshop at the Rita Kelly Theatre in the hospital which is free to the public and where no previous arts experience is required. Open Theatre Practice operates two seasons annually, working towards a performance at the end of each season.
Photos by Futoshi Sakauchi
A collaboration with artist Sara French, Will Hurry was a (small) platform for experimental performance, hosted in French’s Dublin flat.
Contributing artists included Meadhbh Haicéid, Noel Cahill, Rosi Leonard, Eunice Labor, Donncha Mac Cóil and Emily Longworth.
Role: Performer in chorus
Company: Outlandish Theatre Platform
Performances: The Dance Studio, Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, as part of First Fortnight, Europe’s Mental Health Arts Festival for 2019, January 2019
Photographer: Jeda de Brí
Created and performed with community participants and professional performers, WOMB created a parallel perspective on woman and society. WOMB was written by Maud Hendricks and directed by Hendricks and Bernie O’Reilly.
Outlandish Theatre Platform creates inter-disciplinary theatre and inter-media projects with local communities in Dublin 8 and beyond, exploring who we are within perceived cultural, national and global narratives.
Role: Assistant Director
Company: Run of the Mill Theatre
Performances: Draiocht Arts Centre, Dublin, January 2019
Photographer: Fenna Hirschheydt
A dystopian fable exploring politics, power and places in our world. Written and directed by Aisling Byrne, the show was conceived by the cast and director.
Run of the Mill Theatre is a community based theatre arts collective in North Kildare committed to supporting people with intellectual disabilities to access high-quality experiences in drama and theatre arts as artists, makers and participants.
Role: Performer and co-creator
Company: Just the Lads
Performances: MART Rathmines, Dublin, as part of Dublin Tiger Fringe Festival, September 2013; MART Rathmines, Dublin, November 2014
A promenade theatrical performance created and presented in a former fire station, inspired by and featuring interviews with former employees of An Post, the national postal service. Devised and directed by Just the Lads theatre company.
Role: Co-director with Liadain Kaminska
Company: Just the Lads
Performances: UK Parabrod Arts Centre, as part of Belgrade Irish Festival, March 2015
An adaptation of the William Butler Yeats play The Dreaming of the Bones, commissioned by Belgrade Irish Festival, and created in collaboration with local Irish and Serbian musicians.
Role: Assistant Director (Assistenz)
Company: Theater Thikwa
Performances: F40 Theatre, Berlin, February 2015
A dance installation by butoh dancer and choreographer Yuko Kaseki and members of the Theater Thikwa ensemble.
Theater Thikwa is an artistic workshop and performing arts company for artists with and without disabilities, based in Kreuzberg, Berlin.
