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Nico Brown

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Nico Brown is a musician and performer and was Musician in Residence (1995-2000) at The Ark, Dublin's Cultural Centre for Children.

Playwriting Credits

Play Title	Playwright
Pass the Parcel	Nico Brown Frances Kay
The Croons	Nico Brown Martin Drury

Actor

Play Title	Playwright
A Feast of Bones	Frances Kay Walter de la Mare
Pass the Parcel	Nico Brown Frances Kay
The Croons	Nico Brown Martin Drury

Composer

Play Title	Playwright
A Feast of Bones	Frances Kay Walter de la Mare In association with Theatre Lovett.
A Man in Half	Frances Kay
Bumbógs & Bees	Frances Kay
Ground Control to Davy Mental	Damian Gorman
The House of Bernarda Alba	Sebastian Barry Federico García Lorca A version of the play by Federico Garcia Lorca.
Zoe's Play	John McArdle

Musical Director

Play Title	Playwright
A Feast of Bones	Frances Kay Walter de la Mare In association with Theatre Lovett.
F!	Devised by the company from a scenario by David Grant.
Firestone	Maeve Ingoldsby
Tangles	Devised by the company from a scenario by David Grant.

Music by

Play Title	Playwright
Ghost Acreage at Vixen Time	Deirdre Hines
Hard Times	Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy Charles Dickens Adapted from the original novel by Charles Dickens.
Love-Child	Gerard Stembridge
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel	Louis Lovett
With My Bare Hands	Frances Kay Based on the fourteenth-century account of a pilgrimage from Ireland to Jerusalem written by the Clonmel friar Simon FitzSimon (Symon Simeonis).
Wuthering Heights	Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy Emily Brontë Adapted from the original novel by Emily Brontë.

Musical Advisor

Play Title	Playwright
Jack Ketch’s Gallows Jig	Gavin Kostick
Silas Marner	Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy George Eliot Adapted from the original novel by George Eliot.

Director

Play Title	Playwright
The Croons	Nico Brown Martin Drury

Premiered In 2020

Solar Bones

Dear Ireland I

Dream, Sleep, Connect

Theatre for One (and a Little One)

The Fall of the Second Republic

Premiered on this day

Let the Credit Go

Premiered 15 Sep 1930

Playwright
Bryan Cooper
Company
Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

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