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