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Deirdre Dwyer

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Deirdre Dwyer adapts and directs theatre for young audiences. She also designs sets and costumes for theatre, opera, dance and film. She is based in Waterford, Ireland. She was the Theatre Artist in Residence at Garter Lane Arts Centre in 2020.

Company Jobs

Job Title	Company
Co-Artistic Director	BrokenCrow Theatre Company

Adaptations

Play Title	Playwright
The Secret Garden	Deirdre Dwyer Frances Hodgson Burnett

Set & Poster Designer

Play Title	Playwright
After Dark	Mike Kenny
Dorchadas Draíochta	Síle Ní Bhroin Mike Kenny

Set & Costume Designer

Play Title	Playwright
Autumn Royal	Kevin Barry
Broken Croí - Heart Briste	Manchán Magan
Levin & Levin	Aideen Wylde
Melmoth the Wanderer	Nicola McCartney Charles Maturin A new adaptation of Charles Maturin's novel 'Melmoth the Wanderer' (1820).
Playboyz	Martin Sharry John Millington (J.M.) Synge
Running + Walking in the Phoenix Park	Martin Sharry
The Secret Garden	Deirdre Dwyer Frances Hodgson Burnett Adapted by Deirdre Dwyer with the cast.

Production Administrator

Play Title	Playwright
Cyrano	Veronica Coburn Edmond Rostand
Luca	Luca was written and devised by Veronica Coburn and Raymond Keane with creative contribution from performers Eoin Lynch and Amy Conroy. The character Luca emerged during the devising process of …tanks a lot! with Raymond Keane and Judy Hegarty Lovett.

Costume Designer

Play Title	Playwright
Enter Juliet	Ronan Fitzgibbon Written with contributions from Ger FitzGibbon.
Generation Revolution	Raymond Scannell
Jezebel	Mark Cantan
Lally The Scut	Abbie Spallen
Mantle	Ronan Fitzgibbon
Seahorse	Christiane O'Mahony
The Bed	Ger FitzGibbon
The Hairdresser's Calendar	Ger FitzGibbon
The Spider's House	Roderick Ford
The Visit	Deirdre Kinahan

Production Assistant

Play Title	Playwright
HURL	Charlie O'Neill

Designer

Play Title	Playwright
Love All	Tadhg Hickey Aideen Wylde
Tenebrae	Ger FitzGibbon

Set Dresser

Play Title	Playwright
Madam T	Johnny Hanrahan Based on Maupassant's comic short story, The House of Madam Tellier.

Production Designer

Play Title	Playwright
Matched	Ger FitzGibbon Anton Chekhov Adapted from Chekhov's one-act comedies The Bear and The Proposal.

Set Designer

Play Title	Playwright
Overshadowed	Eva O'Connor
The Bed	Ger FitzGibbon
The Scarlet Letter	Julie Kelleher Gavin McEntee Evan Lordan Nathaniel Hawthorn Nathaniel Hawthorn Nathaniel Hawthorn
The Spider's House	Roderick Ford
The Visit	Deirdre Kinahan

Assistant Designer

Play Title	Playwright
The Bonefire	Rosemary Jenkinson

Associate Designer

Play Title	Playwright
The Heights	Lynda Radley Lynda Radley Emily Brontë Jenny Holzer Based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, incoropating material from "Truisms" by Jenny Holzer.

Production Manager

Play Title	Playwright
The Heights	Lynda Radley Lynda Radley Emily Brontë Jenny Holzer Based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, incoropating material from "Truisms" by Jenny Holzer.
The Red Iron	Jim Nolan

Director

Play Title	Playwright
The Secret Garden	Deirdre Dwyer Frances Hodgson Burnett Adapted by Deirdre Dwyer with the cast.

Premiered In 2023

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The Loved Ones

Premiered on this day

Stars of Brickfield Street

Premiered 19 Oct 1948

Playwright
John Coulter
Company
Ulster Group Theatre

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