126: Hello... Ireland!
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This week we are transported to Dublin, just in time for St Patrick\\u2019s Day. Listen in as BPA Operations Manager Siobh\\xe1n Maguire chats about life in Ireland with longtime friend and collaborator Jim Culleton, Artistic Director of Fishamble: The New Play Company.\\xa0
JIM CULLETON
Jim Culleton is the artistic director of Fishamble: The New Play Company, for which he has directed productions on tour throughout Ireland, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the US. His productions for Fishamble have won many Irish and international awards, including Olivier, The Stage, Scotsman Fringe First, and Irish Times Best Director awards.\\xa0
Jim has also directed for Audible, the Abbey, the Gaiety, the Belgrade, 7:84 Scotland, Project, Amharclann de h\\xcdde, Tinderbox, The Passion Machine, the Ark, Second Age, Dundee Rep, Dra\\xedocht, CoisC\\xe9im/Crash Ensemble/GIAF, RT\\xc9 Radio 1, Frontline Defenders, Amnesty International, Little Museum of Dublin, Fighting Words, RT\\xc9 lyric fm, Soho Theatre, Scripts Festival, Vessel and APA (Australia), TNL (Canada), Solas Nua and Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Odyssey (LA), Origin, Irish Arts Center and 59E59 (Off-Broadway), as well as for Trafalgar Theatre Productions on the West End, and IAC/Symphony Space on Broadway.\\xa0Jim has taught for NYU, NUI, GSA, Uversity, the Lir, Villanova, Notre Dame, UM, UMD, and TCD.\\xa0
Fishamble\\u2019s Pat Kinevane and Jim Culleton after winning an Olivier Award for SILENT
SIOBH\\xc1N MAGUIRE
Born and raised in Ireland, Siobh\\xe1n has been a professional Theatre Practitioner for over twenty years, and has a wealth of experience as a producer and venue manager. For BPA she has produced The Tempest (Islandwood), Twelfth Night (Bloedel) and A Midsummer\'s Night Dream (Bloedel). She is also responsible for creating the popular Irish Play Series at BPA.
FISHAMBLE: THE NEW PLAY COMPANY
Fishamble is an Irish theatre company that is passionate about discovering, developing and producing new plays of national importance with a global reach, while championing the role of the playwright. It harnesses the imaginative power of theatre to provide audiences with a diverse range of contemporary, compelling and heartfelt dramatic works, and typically supports over 50% of the writers of all new plays produced on the island of Ireland each year. Fishamble thinks nationally and reaches globally, touring its productions to audiences throughout Ireland, and the world. Visit online at www.fishamble.com.
President Higgins congratulating Fishamble\\u2019s Jim Culleton and Pat Kinevane on their Olivier Award win
\\u201cDuring the three decades since your establishment you have received acclaim at home and on the international stage, garnering many prestigious awards. You have also staged many brave and groundbreaking plays which have challenged, surprised and delighted audiences around the world. As you look back over thirty years of artistic endeavor you have much to regard with pride.\\u2014 PRESIDENT MICHAEL D. HIGGINS, PRESIDENT OF IRELAND 2011 \\u2013 PRESENT
I wish you every success as you continue to nurture new and emerging talent, and to introduce another generation of theatre goers to truly innovative drama, theatre and performance.\\u201d
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED
\\u201cON BLUEBERRY HILL\\u201d IS NOW AVAILABLE ON AUDIBLE!
On Blueberry Hill by Irish Fiction Laureate and award-winning writer Sebastian Barry
Directed By Jim Culleton | Produced by Fishamble: The New Play Company
Now available on AUDIBLE
\\u201cFishamble is to be congratulated on bringing original material to the public. It is ploughing in a risky furrow to produce fresh, innovative and modern Irish writing for the theatre. I wish the company continuing success.\\u201d\\u2014 MARY MCALEESE, PRESIDENT OF IRELAND 1997 \\u2013 2011
Above: Fishamble\\u2019s EMBARGO by Deirdre Kinahan; Photo by Anthony Woods
FISHAMBLE: THE NEW PLAY COMPANY IS SUPPORTED BY:
