Associate Artists
Fiona Monbet is a Franco-Irish artist, violinist, composer and orchestral conductor. After graduating from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, Fiona became involved with orchestral conducting. In parallel with her classical activity, she has been leading a career in jazz, releasing a number of recordings (O'Ceol 2013, Contrebande 2018) Her new album Maelström will be out next January.
Fiona is «Artist in Residence » and guest conductor of the Orchestre National de Bretagne. During the next seasons, Fiona will conduct several new productions with the Orchestre National de Bretagne, including works written by herself. This season she will also conduct the Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestre National de Bordeaux, and BBC National Orchestra of Wales.Since January 2017, Fiona Monbet has been working as the Music Director of the company Miroirs Etendus.
Tom Creed is a theatre and opera director based in Dublin, with a particular focus on new plays and operas by emerging and established writers and composers. He most recently he directed the acclaimed world premiere of Mark O’Halloran’s new play Conversations After Sex with Thisispopbaby at Dublin Theatre Festival, and is currently completing an MFA in Art in the Contemporary World at NCAD.
His productions have been seen at all the major Irish theatres and festivals, including the Abbey Theatre, Gate Theatre, Dublin Theatre Festival, Galway International Arts Festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival and Cork Midsummer Festival, and internationally at the Paris Opera, Edinburgh International Festival, Barbican Centre in London, Melbourne International Festival, Perth International Festival, and Brooklyn Academy of Music, Public Theater, Irish Arts Center and Performance Space 122 in New York.
Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet and writer from the Donegal Gaeltacht. Her publications include Bloodroot (Doire Press 2017) and The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press 2021). She is a recipient of the Next Generation Artist Award from the Arts Council and a co-recipient of The Markievicz Award. Ní Churreáin is a former literary fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany and of Jack Kerouac House Orlando. She has been Writer In Residence at Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris and at Maynooth University of Ireland.
The Yale Review has stated that “Ní Churreáin often captures a whole world of cultural and historical implications in a single, simple, but metaphorically rich image.”An Irish Times review has reported that Ní Churreáin’s poems “with their musicality and sensuousness, as well as their fearlessness, mark the welcome appearance of a fresh and vivid new voice”. Info at www.studiotwentyfive.com
Dylan Coburn Gray writes collaboratively with MALAPROP; their work has won praise for its distinctive blend of nerdiness and tenderness.
He was the recipient of the 2017 Verity Bargate Award for his sole-authored play Citysong, subsequently coproduced by The Abbey Theatre, Soho Theatre, and Galway International Arts Festival in 2019.
Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern is an American freelance choreographer and performer based in Europe. Working with directors and choreographers such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Pilobolus, Marina Abramović, Damien Jalet, Joe Wright, and Paul Thomas Anderson, Fitzgerald has contributed to more than 40 major works of opera, film, theatre and contemporary dance. He has been a creative contributor for three Grammy Award nominated dance films (Anima, Thom York/Netflix; All Is Not Lost, OKGo; ApeS**t, The Carters) and an academy award winning motion picture (Little Women, Greta Gerwig).
His independent dance films have been screened and awarded in film festivals and across Europe, North America and Asia. His latest film On Mending, co-directed with Emilie Leriche, is set to premiere in Los Angeles in January 2022. In the summer of 2022 On Mending will be produced into a live performance by the Princess Grace Foundation, premiering at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City. In his free time, Shawn enjoys roaming natural landscapes and taking photos of the beauty he finds all around him.
Katie Davenport is a set and costume designer based in Dublin and trained in Production Design for Stage and Screen at IADT. She has designed for many major theatre, opera and dance companies in Ireland, including The Abbey, The Gate, Irish National Opera, Landmark, United Fall, Liz Roche Dance Company, Northern Ireland Opera, Theatre Lovett, thisispopbaby and Rough Magic and has associated at St Ann’s Warehouse (New York) and The Barbican (London). She has also worked in the art department at Ardmore studios, has designed for RTE and won an ICAD for Piranha Bar in 2016.
In 2019 she was nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award and represented Ireland at The Prague Quadrennial, a world exhibition of theatre design, and in Beijing NCPA at Evolving Design for Performance in 2016. Katie is vice chair of the Irish Society of Stage & Screen Designers and was Designer in Residence at The Gate Theatre Dublin in 2017. She recently participated in a cross disciplinary group curated by Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and Project Arts centre, Studio Interruptions in 2020 and is currently contributing work towards a collaborative publication later in 2021.
Luca Truffarelli is a freelance photographer and video maker based in Dublin. He graduated in photography in 2011 and started experimenting and challenging himself in the field of visual arts.
Over the past few years he has been involved in contemporary dance and theatre works as a photographer/video maker, visual/set and sound designer and artistic collaborator.