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Deirdre Kinahan

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Deirdre Kinahan is a Dublin-based playwright and theatre producer who founded and ran Tall Tales Theatre Company for 15 years and is currently a board member of Theatre Forum Ireland. Deirdre wrote her first play in 1999 when a group of women at Ruhama Women's Project asked her to write a play about their lives as prostitutes. Be Carna was widely regarded as a powerful debut. Her play Moment played at the Bush to critical acclaim and sell out audiences in 2011 whilst her latest play These Halcyon Days won a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival 2013. Her new play Spinning opened at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2014. Deirdre has also been part of the Open Court season at the Royal Court with a play about the Irish economic crisis.

Company Jobs

Job Title Company
Artistic Director Tall Tales Theatre Company

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Attaboy, Mr. Synge! Deirdre Kinahan
Bé Carna Deirdre Kinahan
Bogboy Deirdre Kinahan
Dear Ireland I Nancy Harris Zoe Ní Riordáin Owen McCafferty Karen Cogan Frank McGuinness Jimmy Murphy Feli Speaks Ursula Rani Sarma Gina Moxley Zhu Yi Pom Boyd Abbie Spallen Stacey Gregg Michael West Thomas Kane Byrne Shaun Dunne Carmel Winters Manchán Magan Sinéad Burke Enda Walsh Eva O'Connor Dermot Bolger Iseult Golden Edna O'Brien Carys D. Coburn Sonya Kelly Sarah Hanly Aoife Martyn Meadhbh McHugh Margaret Perry John Connors Arthur Riordan Colm Keegan (2) Phillip McMahon Joseph O'Connor (1) Andrea Molino Darach Mac Con Iomaire Kit de Waal John O'Donovan (2) Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Keith James Walker Mark O'Halloran Una McKevitt Blindboy Boatclub Emmet Kirwan Rosaleen McDonagh David Ireland Jody O'Neill Deirdre Kinahan Shane O'Reilly
Embargo Deirdre Kinahan
Halcyon Days Deirdre Kinahan
Home Theatre (Ireland) Jeda de Brí Carys D. Coburn Neil Watkins Fiona McGeown Nancy Harris Roisin Ingle Elaine Murphy Bryan Burroughs Little John Nee Duke Special Natalya O'Flaherty Finbarr Doyle Robbie Blake Paul Mercier John Morton Shaun Dunne Feli Speaks Marc Mac Lochlainn Eva O'Connor Sorcha Fox Gavin Kostick Sharon Mannion Fionn Foley Deirdre Kinahan Sonya Kelly Tom Swift Louise Lewis Clare Barrett (1) Jody O'Neill Colin Murphy
Hue and Cry Deirdre Kinahan
Knocknashee Deirdre Kinahan
Maisy Daly's Rainbow Deirdre Kinahan
Melody Deirdre Kinahan
Moment Deirdre Kinahan
Passage Deirdre Kinahan
Rathmines Road Deirdre Kinahan
Rebecca's Robin Deirdre Kinahan
Rum and Raisin Alice Barry Deirdre Kinahan
Spinning Deirdre Kinahan
Summer Fruits Deirdre Kinahan
The Snow Child Deirdre Kinahan
The Tale of the Blue Eyed Cat Deirdre Kinahan
Tiny Plays for Ireland Rachel Feehily Mark Hennessy Adrienne Michel-Long Darren Donohue Gregory Rosenstock Joseph O'Connor (1) Michael Cussen Michael West Dermot Bolger Ronan Geoghegan Michelle Read Ciara Ní Chuirc Jesse Weaver Deirdre Kinahan Antonia Hart Karl O'Neill Rory Nolan Ardal O'Hanlon Gerald Murphy Jody O'Neill Colin Murphy Sean McLoughlin Rosaleen McDonagh Niamh Creely Evan Lee D'Alton
Wild Sky Deirdre Kinahan

Adaptations

Play Title Playwright
The Unmanageable Sisters Deirdre Kinahan Michel Tremblay

Actor

Play Title Playwright
Attaboy, Mr. Synge! Deirdre Kinahan
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Antoinette Duffy Oscar Wilde
Summer Fruits Deirdre Kinahan

Artistic Director

Play Title Playwright
Chance Maeve Ingoldsby Jennifer Mooney Jody O'Neill Lisa Keogh

Displacement by Jennifer Mooney; Foreign Affairs by Jody O'Neill; Even Clean Hands Cause Damage by Lisa Keogh; No One's Being Eaten by Sharks by Maeve Ingoldsby

Producer

Play Title Playwright
Melody Deirdre Kinahan
Passage Deirdre Kinahan