About us....
"Theatre" should be without limit, and there is no limit to what "Theatre" can be. Lights, sounds, set, costume, scripts movement, text, or indeed actors - are any of these constituent parts so integral to the experience that the experience cannot exist without them? Process, output and reaction: which of these if any in isolation, is the integral part of the theatrical experience?
Can a theatrical experience exist, for example without an output, or is the process of creating that experience an output in itself?
Who we are
LIANNE O’SHEA
Lianne O’Shea is currently the Director in Residance in The Complex. Her most recent directing credit is The Merchant of Venice (2010/11) which played in the Moat Theatre, Mermaid Arts Centre and The Complex. She has been directing since 2006 when she made her debut with Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, she has also directed a version of Henry V (2006), a condensation and re-telling of Macbeth (2007), and a ‘for schools’ production of Macbeth for UCD Dramsoc (2009). With GroupX she directed a post dramatic staging of La Corbiere. Co-founder of devise+conquer theatre company, with them she has directed Skullduggery (2010) and Peter Pan (2010). Her other credits include directing a piece of new writing entitled Revolver and producing a theatre installation of Beckett’s Breath (directing one of the component parts). Previously with devise+conquer theatre company she created a work entitled Macabre Theft.
Lianne has also worked as an assistant director to Annabelle Comyn, Jason Byrne and Raymond Keane (Samuel Beckett Centre), and as a Stage Manager on Act Without Words II as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2010.
Lianne has a Masters in Directing for Theatre from UCD and a Licentiate Diploma in Speech and Drama Teaching from LSMD, she most recently took part in a directing workshop on Contemporary Texts led by Annabelle Comyn as part of Project Catalyst with four other emerging directors.
As a lighting designer Lianne has worked on many shows including: Rosanna Nightwalker: The Wren of the Curragh (Moat Theatre), Playboy of the Western World (Moat Theatre), Never Look in the Mirror When You're Dancing (Boys School@Smock Alley), Thoroughly Modern Millie (CMS), The Drunkard (Samuel Beckett Theatre), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (GroupX), Moll (Moat Theatre).
Her theatre design credits include The Playboy of the Western World and The Seagull both in the Moat Theatre.
GERARD O’SHEA
As an actor, Gerard’s roles include Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Agincourt (Henry V), Translations, Faint Voices, The Merchant of Venice, La Corbiere, The Year of the Hiker, Sive, Oven Ready, By the Bog of Cats…, The Brothers, Bermondsey, and previously with devise+conquer theatre company Macabre Theft.
He has trained at various workshops and summer schools in a range of disciplines including acting, directing, mime, improvisation, devising, mask, stage combat and writing. He has worked with tutors such as Vincent O’Neill, Jim Culleton, Steve Canny (Complicite Theatre), Oleg Mirochnikov, Andrea Ainsworth, Paul Burke and Belinda Wild. Most recently, he completed the Fishamble: The New Play Company new
playwright’s course with tutor Gavin Kostick.
He has previously directed The Playboy of the Western World, Elegy for a Lady, This Lime Tree Bower and The Seagull at Moat Theatre Naas, the latter of which was based on his own adaptation of the script.
This year his new play Skullduggery premiered at the Flat Lake Festival, going on to play in Naas and Dublin. In 2007, his short play Revolver was performed at Moat Theatre Naas. Currently he is developing his new play Easter 1917 with devise+conquer theatre company, and is a member of Nova Writers, a playwriting collective developed from the Fishamble Course in 2009.
FIONA WHITE
Fiona has played Caitriona in The Wake (Tom Murphy), Irina Arkadina in The Seagull (Chekhov), Man/Woman in Macabre Theft (devised by devise+conquer theatre company), Rebekah del Rio in “Mulholland Drive” segment in Screen to Stage, Lady Macbeth/Witch in a devised version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Montjoy in Agincourt: After Shakespeare’s Henry V, Nurse in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Philippa in Running in the Dream (Paul Sheehan), Rosa in Eclipsed (Patricia Burke Brogan), Pegeen Mike in Playboy of the Western World (J.M. Synge), Katie in the Salvage Shop, (Jim Nolan) and Linda in Womberang, (Sue Townsend).
She has also played a number of roles in Musical Theatre: Katisha in The Hot Mikado, Golde and Fruma Sarah in two separate productions of Fiddler on the Roof, Mrs Hopkins in My Fair Lady, Miss Mona in Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Ruth in Pirates of Penzance, Ado Annie in Oklahoma!, Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes and Calam in Calamity Jane. She has also been in the choruses of Turandot, Cavalleria Rusticana, Oliver!, Camelot, and Die Fledermaus in the National Concert Hall.
Fiona has directed Steel Magnolias (Harling), iphigenia in orem (LaBute), Fear (devised with Kathy Raftery), and scenes from Beauty Queen of Leenane (McDonagh). She directed The Proposal (Chekhov) with d+c for the Kildare Readers’ Festival in May 2010.