Will Wollen

Director

Before joining Gaiety School of acting , Will was Executive Dean of the Drama School at LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art).  As well as teaching and leading the faculty at LAMDA, he has taught at other leading vocational drama schools and theatres, including RADA, Shakespeare’s Globe, Rose Bruford and Arts Ed London. He was a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre (Acting) at the University of Kent, where he became Director of Education and Undergraduate Student Experience for Arts & Humanities across the university.  

As well as his conservatoire and higher education experience, Will also has twenty-five years’ experience in the UK theatre industry working as an actor, director and a busy arts consultant.

He was Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Margate from 2007 to 2012, where he created an exciting menu of contemporary theatre, led a dynamic and innovative outreach and youth theatre programme and commissioned and produced new works. While at Theatre Royal Margate, Will created mentoring schemes for new touring theatre companies and writers, and is proud to have been one of the founders of house, a powerful initiative to support venues by improving the range, quality and scale of theatre presented across South East and Eastern England, and building the audience for contemporary theatre across the region. 

He has also directed for, among others, The Watermill Theatre, Croydon Warehouse Theatre and CreACTive, Milan. As a director he has focussed on new writing and Shakespeare, and is strongly influenced by his background working in mask and Commedia dell’Arte. He worked as Assistant Director of Outreach and Touring at The Watermill Theatre, West Berkshire Playhouse between 2004 and 2007 under Jill Fraser, where he became Education Consultant for Edward Hall’s internationally renowned Propeller Theatre Company.

As an actor he has worked on all scales of professional theatre, from London’s West End and Royal National Theatre to work with Cherub Company London and small-scale rural touring, about which he is passionate.  As a physical actor, his creature work has also featured in major films.

Eric Weitz

Associate Director

Eric has taught at the Gaiety School of Acting and more recently at Trinity College Dublin, where he was programme head for the Bachelor in Acting Studies and later Head of the Drama Department, in which he still teaches. He holds a Ph.D. from Trinity, an M.A. from University College Dublin, and a B.F.A. from Boston University.

His single-author publications include Theatre & Laughter and The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy; he is co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance, to be published in October.

He is currently President of the Irish Society for Theatre Research (ISTR), and he serves on the boards of Smashing Times Theatre Company in Dublin and Collective Encounters in Liverpool, both socially engaged theatre companies.

Maeve Whelan

General Manager

Maeve is currently the General Manager at The Gaiety School of Acting. Prior to that Maeve spent over 5 years with Dublin Theatre Festival as Audience Development and Sales Manager, liaising closely with audiences and artists; both national and international. She spent 3 years with the Arts Council of Ireland in the Theatre, Literature and Circus departments administering awards in funding and assisting in policy development. Maeve holds a BA in Speech and Drama studies from DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama and an MA in Theatre Practise from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. A former teacher of Drama, she still occasionally adjudicates externally for Speech and Drama Feis.

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Evanna Walsh

School Coordinator

Thom McDermott

Digital Media Associate

Thom is a multi-media content producer specialising in video and photography. Prior to taking up his current role at GSA he worked on numerous film and TV projects varying from documentaries to period drama.

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Rebecca Dolan

Education Manager

Rebecca has a degree in History and Sociology from UCD, a masters in Medieval History from UCD and a Postgraduate diploma in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies from University Ulster. She has worked in the education field since 2007 and most recently was Educational Development Manager with Imaginosity, Dublin Children’s Museum and has been a member of the Discover Primary Science CPD tutor panel since 2013.

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Conor Byrne

Corporate and Development Manager

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Gwenaelle Gillet

Educate Assistant | Young Gaiety Tutor

Helen Connolly

Head Receptionist

Helen joined the reception team in March 2019.  Prior to that, she spent over 6 years with the Abbey Theatre’s costume department.  Helen graduated from DIT with a First Class Honours in Design.

Roger Gregg

Full-Time: Audio Acting | Cabaret

Roger Gregg is an award winning playwright, composer, audio-producer and actor. Over the past 28 years he has written plays and music for many theatre companies such as TEAM, The American National Audio Theatre Festival, Graffiti Theatre, The Razor Edge and The Gaiety School of Acting. His plays have also been produced abroad by companies in Germany, Australia and the US. In 2010 he was nominated for Best Sound Design in The Irish Times Theatre Awards for BARRABAS’s production ‘Johnny Patterson – The Singing Irish Clown’.

Clare Maguire

GSA Part-Time Training Suite| Young Gaiety: Performance Workshop | Youth Theatre Workshop | Young Performers Company | Youth Theatre Company

Clare Maguire graduated from Rose Bruford College with a BA Hons in Acting & Theatre Studies. For over 20 years she has worked as a theatre practitioner and educator in both the UK and Ireland.

For 10 years Clare was an actor based in London, she worked in the UK and toured internationally. In the past 8 years she has worked as a Theatre Director in Dublin where she is now based. The majority of Clare’s directing work has been predominantly with emerging artists, developing and staging new work.

John O’Hare

Full-Time Acting | Part-Time

Graduate of the prestigious Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and received his MFA (Directing) from QUT Creative Industries.
John works as an actor, director, producer and acting teacher. He was the Director of School and Head of Acting at AFTT – Academy of Film Theatre and Television in Sydney from 2004 to 2016 where he designed the course program which is now a leader in performing arts training in Sydney.

From 2000 to 2003 he was Head of Acting and Technical Production at Queensland University of Technology, Creative Industries, Brisbane. He is the co-founder and co artistic director of O’Punksky’s Theatre Company, Sydney the longest running independent theatre company in Australia. His productions have won numerous awards including four Green Rooms and two Sydney Critics Circle awards. He has been a director at the Playwrights Conference and at NIDA. He has directed some 120 productions for companies including Sydney and Melbourne Theatre Companies, Playbox, The Griffin Theatre, Belvoir St and The
Sydney Opera House.

John’s Film & TV credits include: Wildside, Moriarty, Blackrock, Drop Dead Weird, A Long Road to Heaven, Blackrock, Packed to the Rafters, Cops LAC, Tough Nuts, Rogue Nation, GP, Home and Away, Heroes II: the Return and A Country Practice.

John is co founding director of O’Punksky’s Theatre Company.

Alan Howley

Full-Time: Manifesto

Alan is a performer, writer, and theatre maker based in Dublin. He began acting with Dublin Youth Theatre, subsequently studying Performance at Dartington College of Arts, Devon.  Alan has worked in theatre since 1989, including artist residencies at The Junction Arts Centre, Cambridge, The Space Programme at Castletown House (with The Performance Corporation), MAKE theatre residency at Annaghmakerrig, and on Pan Pan’s International Mentorship programme.  He has performed both nationally and internationally including shows in Dublin Theatre Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, as well as festivals in France, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Finland, Sweden, Belgium and Malaysia.  Alan’s solo performance works have been shown in the ICA London, the CCA Glasgow, and the Expo Live Art festival, Nottingham.

Alan is director of performance group Breach & Quinn. Their work has played Project Arts Centre, Tiger Dublin Fringe, Carlow Arts Festival, Galway Theatre Festival, as well as Theaterszene Europa Festival, Cologne and George Town Festival, Malaysia.  In 2020, Alan was an Associate Artist at both Axis Ballymun and the Riverbank Arts Centre.

Diane Richardson

Full-Time: Dance

Diane holds a MA in theatre studies having graduated from UCD with First Class Honours. She began her dance training at the Irish National College of Dance, Blackrock and further studied in London, Amsterdam and New York. She is a highly experienced choreographer in the musical theatre genre as well as having worked with many leading theatre companies. She is also Ireland’s foremost practitioner of the art of rhythm tap having studied with Charles ‘Honi’Coles, the late Gregory Hines and Heather Cornell. Diane has also studied with tap masters, Brenda Bufalino and She travels regularly to New York where she attends the NYCTapFestival and also trains with Heather Cornell of Manhattan Tap.

Gene Rooney

Full-Time: Improvisation | Stagecraft | Audition Technique

Gene is a professional actor. She has worked in film, tv and radio and has performed in almost every theatre in the country in almost 40 productions.

Gene has done extensive training in improvisation under the mentorship of Australian, Jo O’Reilly (World Theatre Sports Champion and past Artistic Director of Boom Chicago, Amsterdam). She graduated from the GSA two year full-time programme in 1998 and has been teaching at the school since then. She teaches Introduction to Drama on the part- time programme and Improvisation on the two year full-time programme as well as giving corporate training through Improv in the banking, medical and legal sectors. She directed/assistant directed the full time graduation scenes showcase for 12 years.

Antoinette Duffy

Full-Time: MA in Theatre Practice

Antoinette Duffy is an honours graduated from both the MA Drama Studies Programme in UCD and the Theatre Studies Course in Maynooth College. Duffy works as a director and as a teacher of process drama and drama in performance, with a particular interest in the physicality of the performer.

Elizabeth Moynihan

Full-Time

ELIZABETH MOYNIHAN is a multi-award-winning playwright, and actor. She spent 8 years studying with Deirdre O’Connell at Focus Theatre’s ‘Stanislavsky Actors Studio’. Elizabeth currently works in the U.K. and Ireland. Roles include BLACK MIRROR, FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, AVENUE 5 for HBO. THE DRY, SANCTUARY S2 for ANC+Sundance. Founder of Éala Productions; A collective of theatre makers and musicians from diverse perspectives.

Paul Nugent

Corporate, GSA Suite

Paul has over 20 years experience working as an actor, director, playwright, producer and teacher in the US, UK and Europe.

He was based in New York for a decade, where his Off-Broadway theatre credits as an actor include The Field, Ladies and Gents, McGoldrick’s Thread and originating the role of Victor McGowan in The McGowan Trilogy, and where he was a Resident Artist at The Cell. Recent theatre in Ireland includes lead roles in the world premieres of Looking at the Sun, Most Peculiar Dreams, The Gods of the Ozarks and the award-winning Transatlantic Tales. Paul has extensive voice-over credits, ranging from the acclaimed audiobook of Tana French’s The Wych Elm to the Audible series Rockness Monsters. His on-screen roles include the feature Reputation, TV’s The Blacklist and the award-winning film The Long Wet Grass. As a playwright, he has written The Devil Himself and Orson Welles’ Christmas Carol while his directing credits include The Long Way Home. Paul is also Co-Artistic Director of the Dublin-based theatre company AboutFACE and is founding co-producer of the NEWvember New Plays Festival.

Paul is a proud graduate of the Gaiety School of Acting Full-Time Programme.

Sharon O’Doherty

Full-Time: Mime

Sharon O’Doherty is a Mime and Improvisation Tutor at the Gaiety School of Acting – The National Theatre School of Ireland. She has been working with the school since 1987. Sharon has trained at the Ecole Marcel Marceau Paris and has worked professionally in theatre for 35 years as an actor, producer, director and stage combat director. An experienced teacher and workshop facilitator, she still is the resident teacher of ‘mine’ for the Two Year Full Time Professional Actor Training at the The Gaiety School of Acting.

Libby Seward

Full-Time: Movement

Libby is an accomplished dance artist, choreographer, collaborator, movement director and facilitator. For over twenty-five years her work has spanned professional dance, theatre, opera, dance work in community and healthcare contexts.

Her work is rooted in movement practices that connect body, mind and breath by releasing physical tension, freeing the breath, building physical awareness, flexibility and strength. This integrated and intuitive approach is influenced by a range of disciplines such as qi-gong, yoga, release technique, contact improvisation and somatics.
Libby holds a Masters in Dance and is a Laban graduate. She is currently studying to be a Feldenkrais practitioner. As the founder and Artistic Director of Animated State Dance Theatre Company she creates original dance theatre productions including: Re-imagining Beckett, Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, Samsara, Crossing, Close Encounters, InterPhase 3, She Takes Place. Recent movement direction work for opera includes Opera Theatre Company’s 2016 production of La bohème and Monteverdi’s Orfeo (2014) ; Cavalli’s Ormindo, RIAM; The Invader, a new Irish Opera by Eric Sweeney

In her role as the Arts Council’s appointed Dance Artist in Residence 2010 to 2015 she worked to promote dance as a unique, vital and accessible art form. Libby’s work with young people and adults with Down syndrome led to the establishment of TRACES Dance Ensemble a company of dancers who challenge perceptions about dance and disability.

A skilled collaborator, Libby delights in creative exchanges with artists of all disciplines. Collaborators include opera and theatre director Ben Barnes, composer Andrew Synnott, mezzo-soprano Karolina Blixt, playwright Jim Nolan, poet Mark Roper, visual artists Ben Hennessy, Alanna O’Kelly, Brian Hand, Una Ryan and Natasha Bourke. In 2016 she has worked on a poetry film Angel with Mark Roper and a performance art installation ‘Stormy Petrel for the An Post GPO: Witness History Public Art Commissions Award.

Liam Halligan

Full-Time: Shakespeare | Stanislavski

Liam is an established freelance theatre director based in Ireland. He has received numerous awards from the Irish Arts Council to develop his work over the last 10 years. He was nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award as Best Director in 2004 for two productions Speaking in Tongues (Quare Hawks) and Rashomon (Storytellers). He trained as an actor at the Stanislavski Studio in the Focus Theatre Dublin under Deirdre O’Connell and Mary Elizabeth Burke Kennedy. Liam has worked with internationally renowned directors such as Lindsay Anderson, Sir Hugh Hunt, Declan Donnellan, Phyllida Lloyd, James Macdonald and Annie Castledine.

Ciaran O’Grady

Full-Time: Stage Combat

Ciaran is the Stage Combat Instructor at the Gaiety School of Acting. He is certified in Unarmed combat, Broadsword, Rapier & Dagger, Knife, Smallsword, Quarterstaff, Sword & Shield , Single-Sword, Fire-Arms, Gladius, Capoeira and Aikido.

Ciaran has been working in the film and theatre industry since 1998. In 2003 he graduated from the Theatre Studies programme at Inchicore College and later went on to train with the Irish Dramatic Combat Academy. Ciaran has trained extensively in armed and unarmed stage combat in Ireland and in the USA. He is among Ireland’s leading experts in theatrical violence and regularly works as a stage combat instructor, stunt performer, fight director, and actor.

Ciaran is a member of Stunt Register Ireland and has worked as a stunt performer on Vikings, Penny Dreadful, Into the Badlands, Red Rock, Reign, Jekyll & Hyde, Pilgrimage, The Third Wave and the music video for Kodaline’s hit song All I Want, for which he also created the fight choreography.

Lianne O’Shea

Full-Time: Shakespeare

Lianne O’Shea is a resident director at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin – Ireland’s National Theatre.

Her most recent directing work includes intimate site-responsive explorations of Hamlet – in 2022 she presented one strand of the project: This House is Elsinore, and in 2023 she developed the multidisciplinary presentation – PLAY – which was presented at The Moat Theatre in 2024. Other directing work includes Foreign Bodies (Project Arts Centre) and Delta Phase (Theatre Upstairs) both for Polish Theatre Ireland, Skullduggery (Bewley’s Café Theatre) Romeo + Juliet and The Merchant of Venice (The Complex). She holds an MA in Directing for Theatre from UCD. As a teacher she has developed and delivered an Introduction to Directing programme funded by the Kildare Arts Service; in addition to specific work with actors – including co-directing the 2024 Graduating Class GSA Showcase.

Raymond Keane

Full-Time: Theatre of Clown | I A Clown

Raymond is a founding member and Artistic Director of multi award winning Barabbas Theatre Company. Raymond’s work as actor, writer and director has appeared in almost every Irish Theatre as well major festivals at home and abroad from Dublin, Cork, Galway, Belfast to London, Edinburgh, Wales, France, Denmark, Africa (Zimbabwe and Zambia), New Zealand and U.S.A. (New York, Washington, Kansas, Chicago, New Hampshire, Colorado and Connecticut).Currently Raymond collaborates with Sarah Jane Scaife (Company SJ) producing the works of Samuel Beckett. Recent presentations include Dublin Fringe Festival 2013,“Happy Days’ Beckett Festival Enniskillen, “River to River” Festival New York and Tokyo Japan. It will appear at The Barbican Beckett Festival in June 2015. He lectures in Theatre of Clown on a Masters in Theatre Making at National University Ireland Maynooth, The Gaiety School of Acting Dublin and at The Lir Academy of Dramatic Arts Dublin. He is External Examiner at Conservatory of Music and Drama – Dublin Institute of Technology.

Gabrielle Moleta

Full-Time: Transformation and Imaginative Improvisation

Gabrielle is a movement director, actor, acting coach and director based in Dublin and working in theatre, film and dance. As movement director she has fed physical language into all strands of performance including small and large scale theatre, contemporary dance, TV, film and performance capture. She works internationally in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. In the UK she has led workshops and masterclasses for RSC, Shakespeare’s Globe, Schumacher College-Dartington House. She has taught at most leading drama schools in the UK and was physical tutor on the MA Theatre Lab at RADA 2013-2024. She was Associate Lecturer at University of Kent 2011-2021, is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PGCHE) and is part of the movement faculty at the Globe. She has ongoing artistic collaborations with Fay Simpson – Lucid Body (NY) and Kalamata Drama, (Greece).
In 2004, Gabrielle was chosen by Catherine Clouzot to inherit the body of work known as Transformation and Imaginative Improvisation. As inheritor of Catherine’s unique process, Gabrielle continues its direct lineage passed on from teacher to assistant through Clouzot and John Blatchley, from Michel Saint Denis and Jacques Copeau and is its leading practitioner in Ireland and the UK
She is artistic director of theatre company, Company Gabrielle Moleta.

Caroline Coffey

GSA Suite | Part-Time: Confidence Edge | Young Gaiety: Performance Workshop | Educate & Outreach

Caroline holds a Masters in International Theatre Studies from St. Patrick’s College, DCU. She is a graduate of Artstrain at The National Association of Youth Drama, where she trained full-time as a drama facilitator. She is also a graduate of Theatre Performance at Inchicore College of Further Education, where she trained as an actor. She has completed various other courses including Theatre of the Oppressed with Julian Boal and Directing in The Actor’s Space, Barcelona. She has considerable experience working as a youth theatre director, freelance drama facilitator and as a theatre-in-education performer and facilitator. She also has various acting and directing credits to her name.

Seamus Quinn

One Year Part-Time: Performance Year | GSA Suite | Educate & Outreach | Corporate

Seamus Quinn, Dramatherapist and Drama Practitioner (MA, IACAT)
Seamus qualified from NUI Maynooth. He now works at the Trinity College Dublin National Institute for Intellectual Disability and also with Adolescent/Adult Mental Health Services. He also runs his own private practice. He has worked with people within the elderly and Alzheimer’s communities both as a Dramatherapist and a Creative writing/drama facilitator in a clinical and informal setting. As part of the ‘Dalkey Creates’ writing festival 2014, he facilitated an inter- generational Outreach Writing/Drama Project with Primary school children and older members of the community. He was also a panelist on ‘Enriched Lives’ – an Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists (IACAT) public discussion on the value of Creative Arts Therapies and Drama for the elderly and people with Alzheimer’s.

Gemma Doorly

Part-Time: Acting for Camera | Confidence Edge | Young Gaiety: Acting for Camera | Filmmaking | Corporate

Gemma is an actress, writer and director. In 2007, she was nominated for a Best Actress IFTA for the film ‘A Song For Rebecca’ but she is probably best known for playing ‘Sarah O’Leary’ in RTE soap Fair City for ten years. In 2004, she wrote the play ‘The Robb’d That Smiles’, Focus Theatre Dublin 2004 & Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast 2006, which was nominated for The Jayne Snow award 2004 Best New Play at the Dublin Fringe 2004 Most recently her play W.A.G which she also directs and performs in, is continuing to tour around Ireland. She wrote and directed short film ‘The Baby Brother’. Gemma also teaches Acting For Camera at the Irish Film Academy.

Andrea Scott

Full-Time: Stagecraft | Mindbody, Part-time: Select Course

Richard Lennon

Part-Time: Acting for Camera | Young Gaiety: Acting for Camera | Filmmaking

Jim Roche

Part-Time

Oonagh McLaughlin

GSA Beginners | Educate & Outreach | Young Gaiety:  Drama Workshop | Youth Theatre Workshop | Corporate

Oonagh is a graduate of the Gaiety School’s full time performance course, she also has an MA in Theatre and Social Policy from Glasgow University, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Community Arts Education from the National College of Art and Design.

She has been designing and facilitating a variety of courses for the school since 2002.

Ailbhe Casey

Part-Time: Musical Theatre | Young Gaiety: Musical Theatre Company

Aoibhin Murphy

Young Gaiety | Adult Part Time

Aoibhin is an actor and drama facilitator originally from Kilkenny. Aoibhin started working as a facilitator for Young Irish Filmmakers in Kilkenny over ten years ago.

Aoibhin graduated from The Conservatory of Music and Drama in 2016 and has been facilitating and acting ever since. As a facilitator Aoibhin has worked in St. Michael’s house, developing programmes catering towards young people adults with intellectual disabilities. She has also been lucky enough to be able to work with university students, developing drama programmes to improve interpersonal and interview skills. In addition, Aoibhin enjoys working closely with devising and text analysis. Aoibhin was the artist in resident with her own new development and writing in Garter Lane in October 2018.

Aoibhin is also an actor and has enjoyed working on a number of projects all around Ireland. Most recently, Aoibhin worked on Alice and The Wolf, an interactive play for young audience. Aoibhin will also be appearing in The Last Duel, being filmed in Dublin at the moment.

Peter O’Byrne

Part-Time: Page to Stage | Adult Part Time | Educate & Outreach

As an actor, improviser, comedian, teacher and voice over artist Peter has over fifteen years of experience to draw on when facilitating presentation and corporate workshops. Every workshop is a fun-filled creative experience, catering for all levels of participants, from the extremely confident to the respectfully nervous.
As co-founder and member of The Craic Pack comedy improv, The Cardinals long form improv, and his own one man improv show Tumble Turn Moments, Peter draws on real time performance experience to engage people with the skills and confidence level attainable through performance and drama techniques.

Among Peter’s performance credits are Sky Comedy Shorts, Caper, Damo & Ivor Foyles War, Killinaskully, The Clinic, Fair City, Camelot, The Bulmers and Cat Laughs Comedy Festival, resident Emcee at The Bankers Comedy Club and many more…

Shelley Bukspan

Part-Time: Singing | Young Gaiety: Musical Theatre Company

An American/Israeli singer, songwriter and performer, Shelley has been part of the Irish music scene since 1986.

As a front woman and solo artist, she’s performed at many events and festivals, including CMJ New York and the Montreux Jazz Festival, among others. She’s also appeared on TV and radio shows both in Ireland and abroad, such as sessions for the BBC, with the RTE Orchestra and many more.

She’s recorded, collaborated with and arranged backing vocals for artists such as Mary Black, Bronagh Gallagher, Mary Coughlan, Horslips and other many indie and contemporary young Irish artists.

Shelley runs music workshops, as well as leading a choir and her own Gospel quartet, The BC Singers. Her recent projects includes an album of original Northern Soul and Ska with The Supertonic Sound Club, plus work on her solo album.

Danny Kehoe

Part-Time: Stand Up Comedy

Danny is an Actor, Comedian, Improviser, Voice Over Artist and Sketch Writer from Dublin. He performs weekly with the Dublin Comedy Improv (International Bar, Mondays @9pm), he was a semi-finalist – ‘So You Think You’re Funny’ (Edinburgh Festival), and of ‘The Best Newcomer’ @Bulmer’s International Comedy Festival (both in 2005).

Danny is a co-founder of Ghost Train Willy Sketch Comedy Group (RTE) and of The Cardinals – Long Form Improv. He was also a member of the Craic Pack Comedy Improv Group (Bankers 2002 – 2014)

In 2010, Danny was honoured to receive a scholarship to spend the summer studying improvisation and writing at the highly prestigious Second City and IO Theatres in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Off The Cuff – Improv comedy interview with Danny

Film, TV & Theatre credits include: Bridget & Eamon, The Republic of Telly, Sgt Mattie (all RTE), ‘Moone Boy’ (Sky 1), ‘Red Rock’ (TV3) to name but a few.

Sharon Mannion

Part-Time: Stand Up Comedy

Sharon works as an actor/comedian and writer.
TV credits include ‘Moone Boy’ (Sky 1), ‘Prosperity’, ‘The Clinic’, ‘Republic of Telly’, ‘Zig and Zag’s Super Bloopers’ and ‘Hubble’ (RTE) as well as ‘Ros Na Run’ (TG4).

As a stand-up she is a regular at clubs all over the country and beyond; Hapenny Inn (also as MC) International, Bankers, Laughter Lounge (Dublin, Galway, Waterford), The Stand (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Jongleurs (London) the list goes on. She came third in the UK & Ireland Funny Women Competition, and won the inaugural Ted Fest Best Stand Up Competition in 2007.

…faultless performance – rich in indignity and passion that demolishes all before it…
-Chortle.co.uk

….turbo-charged- started at fever pitch and stayed there…..
-Evening Standard, London

She is a founding member of sketch group Ghost Train Willy (Republic of Telly, Newstalk, Flat Lakes Festival 2011) and performs improvised comedy weekly with The Dublin Comedy Improv (at the International), and The Craic Pack (at the Bankers).

Martin Maguire

Corporate | Study Abroad

Charlie Hughes

Educate & Outreach

Charlie has performed in many roles on stage including productions such as Iscariot, which toured Ireland and America, Spring Awakenings, Waiting for Godot and Songs of Mama Cass. Most recently he starred in Hamlet in the Gaiety School of Acting. He is delighted to be making his return to the Gaiety this year with King Lear.
In addition to theatre work, Charlie has many screen credits including Fair City, Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde, Strange Times, Dublin Stories and more.
Charlie studied acting at The Gaiety School of Acting, having undertaken their two year full time actor training course. In his spare time, Charlie enjoys football and singing.

Noel Brady

Young Gaiety: Acting for Camera | Filmmaking | Youth Theatre Company

Noel picked up a video camera for the first time in 1996. Over twenty years later he has gained a wealth of experience both academic and practical. Since then he has produced over 200 productions, and has just completed his first feature film ‘Full Circle’ where he won ‘Best Director’ at the ‘International Film Festival London’.

Noel is a former graduate of ‘Coláiste Dhúlaigh’ and ‘Balleyfermot College of further Education’ where he studied, Theatre studies, Computer CGI, Filmmaking and TV production.

Noel also runs his own production company ‘Phoenix Artz’ which has won numerous awards over the years, and continues to produce high-end media for the corporate and promotional sector.

Roseanne Lynch

Young Gaiety: Drama Workshop | Full-Time | GSA Beginners | GSA Start | Study Abroad

Roseanne is an actor and writer, trained at Drama Centre London and the Samuel Beckett Centre, TCD. She is also one half of Darn Skippy Productions, a multidisciplinary duo telling stories through film, theatre and music. Her acting work includes roles with the National Theatre of Scotland, Ibsen Stage Company, RIFT, Helium Arts and Sunday’s Child. In 2021 she received an Arts Council Project Award to develop her new play, Waterbirth. This play has also been supported by an Open Stage Residency (Dunamaise Arts Centre) and a Creative Ireland Bursary (Kildare Arts Office). Her first play Zandra, Queen of Jazz, based on the extraordinary true story of Ireland’s first female saxophonist, premiered at Smock Alley Theatre in 2019, completely sold out and received excellent reviews from both critics and audiences. The show returned as part of the Herstory Light Festival in 2020, and has toured to various other venues since. She has written and produced five audio plays: Storywalks, 2021 – a collection of four, funded by Kildare Arts Office & Healthy Ireland; and Anchor, 2018, commissioned by the DLR LexIcon Library for the Centenary of the sinking of the RMS Leinster. Roseanne also works as an artist on the Teacher-Artist Partnership Programme and the BLAST programme, carrying out artist residencies in primary and secondary schools.

Charlene Gleeson

Young Gaiety: Musical Theatre Workshop | Musical Theatre Company

Charlene works professionally as an actor, voice over artist and a Dance Choreographer.

She trained as a ballroom dancer from a young age and graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting in 2006.

Charlene has worked as a dance teacher and drama facilitator for many years and has just finished for directorial debut for the musical West Side Story in the Civic Tallaght.

Charlene has been working with our Young Gaiety students for the past two years.