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Paul Meade

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Paul Meade is a writer, director, actor and joint artistic director of Gúna Nua Theatre company. Originally from Limerick, he trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin, and later received an M.A. in Modern Drama from University College Dublin. His awards include the Stewart Parker Award for 'Skin Deep' (2003) and a Dublin Fringe Best Production Award for 'Scenes From a Water Cooler (2001). In 2007 he was awarded a playwrighting commission by the Irish Council for Bioethics, with the resulting 'Begotten not Made' being performed as a staged reading by Fishamble in January 2009 in Farmleigh House. Paul Meade has also written extensively for film and television.

Company Jobs

Job Title Company
Artistic Director Gúna Nua Theatre Company

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Faith Paul Meade
Light Signals Paul Meade
Meltdown Paul Meade
Mushroom Paul Meade
Scenes From a Water Cooler Paul Meade David Parnell
Skin Deep Paul Meade
Thesis Paul Meade David Parnell Gerry Dukes
Trousers Paul Meade David Parnell

Adaptations

Play Title Playwright
Stop the Tempo Paul Meade Gianina Carbunariu

Actor

Play Title Playwright
Buck Jones and the Body Snatchers Ken Bourke
Charlie John Breen
Four Storeys David Parnell
God's Gift John Banville Heinrich von Kleist
Hand Me Down the Moon Bairbre Ní Chaoimh
Hard Times Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy Charles Dickens
Licking the Marmalade Spoon David Parnell
Tales from Ovid Michael Barker-Caven
The Ante Room Kevin O'Connor
The Ash Fire Gavin Kostick

Director

Play Title Playwright
Appropriate Sarah-Jane Scott
Chicane Anthony Brophy
Green Street Sarah Binchy Gill McCaw Geoff Power Pauline Shanahan
Little Gem Elaine Murphy
Meltdown Paul Meade
Pondling Genevieve Hulme-Beaman
Scenes From a Water Cooler Paul Meade David Parnell
Taste David Parnell
The Goddess of Liberty Karen Ardiff
The Morning After the Life Before Ann Blake (2)
The Unlucky Cabin Boy Mike Finn
Trousers Paul Meade David Parnell