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