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PHILLIP MCMAHON

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Phillip McMahon is a playwright and director based in Dublin. He has directed and toured a number of shows with long time collaborator, drag queen Panti, and was co-writer and co-producer on Conor Horgan’s esteemed documentary The Queen of Ireland. His work has shown at the Abbey Theatre Dublin, National Theatre UK, Irish Arts Center New York, Traverse Edinburgh, across Australia, Europe, Canada and beyond. Phillip is co-founder and co-director of THISISPOPBABY, wherein he was co-creator and co-curator of the THISISPOPBABY POPTOPIA performance venue at Electric Picnic Music and Arts Festival, Queer Notions cross arts festival, WERK Performance/Art/Club, Where We Live festival of performance and ideas and RIOT. He is a former member of Dublin Youth Theatre and National Youth Theatre, he was Writer In Association at the Abbey Theatre 2009/10 and is currently Artistic Associate at the LyricHammersmith Theatre, London. He was a participant in Six in the Attic, an Irish Theatre Institute resource sharing initiative, from 2014–2016.

COMPANY JOBS

Job Title Company
Director THISISPOPBABY

PLAYWRITING CREDITS

Play Title Playwright
Alice in Funderland Phillip McMahon Raymond Scannell
All Over Town Phillip McMahon
Come On Home Phillip McMahon
Danny and Chantelle (still here) Phillip McMahon
Dear Ireland I Blindboy Boatclub Dermot Bolger Pom Boyd Sinéad Burke Karen Cogan John Connors Carys D. Coburn Kit de Waal Shaun Dunne Iseult Golden Stacey Gregg Sarah Hanly Nancy Harris David Ireland Thomas Kane Byrne Colm Keegan (2) Sonya Kelly Deirdre Kinahan Emmet Kirwan Darach Mac Con Iomaire Manchán Magan Aoife Martyn Owen McCafferty Rosaleen McDonagh Frank McGuinness Meadhbh McHugh Una McKevitt Phillip McMahon Andrea Molino Gina Moxley Jimmy Murphy Zoe Ní Riordáin Edna O'Brien Eva O'Connor Joseph O'Connor (1) John O'Donovan (2) Mark O'Halloran Jody O'Neill Shane O'Reilly Margaret Perry Ursula Rani Sarma Arthur Riordan Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Abbie Spallen Feli Speaks Keith James Walker Enda Walsh Michael West Carmel Winters Zhu Yi
Elevator Phillip McMahon
I Am Tonie Walsh Phillip McMahon Tonie Walsh
Love 2.0 Belinda McKeon Phillip McMahon
Pineapple Phillip McMahon
Town Is Dead Phillip McMahon

ACTOR

Play Title Playwright
Danny and Chantelle (still here) Phillip McMahon
The Leaving Brendan Griffin
The Map Maker's Sorrow Chris Lee

DIRECTOR

Play Title Playwright
Dublin Oldschool Emmet Kirwan
Money Peter Daly
Not a Funny Word Tara Flynn
The Year Of Magical Wanking Neil Watkins
Town Is Dead Phillip McMahon
Originally conceived and developed by Phillip McMahon and Raymond Scannell.

PRODUCER

Play Title Playwright
Trade Mark O'Halloran

PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR

Play Title Playwright
The Stuff of Myth Roger Gregg

BOOK AND LYRICS

Play Title Playwright
Alice in Funderland Phillip McMahon Raymond Scannell

A new musical loosely inspired by the classic story by Lewis Carroll.