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