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Jo Mangan

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Jo is the Artistic Director of Ireland’s internationally renowned site-specific specialists The Performance Corporation. Recent directing credits for the company include Swampoodle – a large scale site-specific performance in Washington DC’s Uline Arena, co-produced with Solas Nua, Slattery’s Sago Saga (nominated Best Director, Best New Play and Best Actor in the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards), which played at Rathfarnham Castle, on National Tour and at the Dublin Theatre Festival. Jo curates The Performance Corporation’s SPACE Programme, an international multidisciplinary artists residency in Castletown House, Co. Kildare. Jo is a board member of the Riverbank Arts Centre, VISUAL in Carlow, and has served on the boards of Theatre Forum and Fishamble. Jo has lectured, given workshops and presented on The Performance Corporation’s work in many of Ireland’s Universities, and is a graduate of the Samuel Beckett Centre in TCD.

Company Jobs

Job Title Company
CEO The Performance Corporation

Festival Jobs

Job Title Festival
Festival Director BIG HOUSE Festival

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
The Seven Deadly Sins Jo Mangan Tom Swift

Adaptations

Play Title Playwright
Voltaire's Candide Tom Swift Jo Mangan (-) Voltaire

Director

Play Title Playwright
Beware of the Storybook Wolves Tom Swift Lauren Child
Bogboy Deirdre Kinahan
Dr. Ledbetter's Experiment Tom Swift
Dreamframe Deirdre Hines
Drive-By Tom Swift
Lizzie Lavelle and the Vanishing of Emlyclough Tom Swift
Power Point Tom Swift
Shorts Simon O'Gorman Stella Feehily Ciara Considine Dawn Bradfield Tara Dairman Bryan Delaney Talaya Delaney Aino Dubrawsky Ger Gleeson James Heaney Colm Maher Lorraine McArdle Tina Reilly Mary Portser
Slattery's Sago Saga Arthur Riordan Flann O'Brien
Adapted from the unfinished novel by Flann O'Brien
Swampdoodle Tom Swift
The Butterfly Ranch Tom Swift
The Nose Tom Swift Nikolai Gogol

Adaptation of the short story 'The Nose' by Nikolai Gogol.
The Seven Deadly Sins Jo Mangan Tom Swift
The Yokohama Delegation Tom Swift
Voltaire's Candide Jo Mangan Tom Swift (-) Voltaire (-) Voltaire
Adapted from Voltaire's Candide.
Wild Sky Deirdre Kinahan

Producer

Play Title Playwright
Still Rosalind Haslett
The Buddhist of Castleknock Jim O'Hanlon
The Butterfly Ranch Tom Swift
The Carnival King Ian Kilroy
The Plains of Enna Pat Kinevane
The Seven Deadly Sins Jo Mangan Tom Swift
Wired to the Moon Jim Culleton Maeve Binchy
An adaptation of six short stories by Maeve Binchy.

PR

Play Title Playwright
True Believers Joseph O'Connor (1)
Adapted from the authors own short stories.

Administrator

Play Title Playwright
True Believers Joseph O'Connor (1)
Adapted from the authors own short stories.