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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

Twenty Fifty

The Spider's House

Solar Bones

Dear Ireland I

Dream, Sleep, Connect

Premiered on this day

Mr. Murphy's Island

Premiered 16 Aug 1926

Playwright
Elizabeth Harte
Company
Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

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