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Raymond Keane

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Raymond Keane is a founding member and Artistic Director of multi award winning Barabbas Theatre Company. Raymond's work as an actor, writer and director has appeared in almost every Irish theatre as well as major festivals at home and abroad from Dublin, Cork, Galway, Belfast to London, Edinburgh, Wales, France, Denmark, Africa (Zimbabwe and Zambia), New Zealand, USA (New York, Washington, Kansas, Chicago, New Hampshire, Colorado and Connecticut) and Japan.

Company Jobs

Job Title Company
Artistic Director Barabbas

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
... tanks a lot! Raymond Keane Judy Hegarty-Lovett
Annabelle's Star Raymond Keane Mary McNally
Dog Raymond Keane

Actor

Play Title Playwright
... tanks a lot! Raymond Keane Judy Hegarty-Lovett
Come Down from the Mountain John Clown, John Clown
Cyrano Veronica Coburn Edmond Rostand
Fizzles Sarah-Jane Scaife Samuel Beckett
God's Gift John Banville Heinrich von Kleist
Hairdresser in the House
Half Eight Mass of a Tuesday
Luca
Melting Penguins Gerard Stembridge
Nightmare on Essex Street Gerard Stembridge
Out the Back Door
Remember to Breathe Orla Murphy
Sick Dying Dead Buried Out
Snake Oil Alan O'Regan
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel Louis Lovett
Toupees and Snare Drums Gina Moxley
Twenty Fifty Fionnuala Gygax Dan Colley

Director

Play Title Playwright
Annabelle's Star Raymond Keane Mary McNally
Dog Raymond Keane
Hostel 16 Fionnuala Gygax
Hupnouse Charlie O'Neill
HURL Charlie O'Neill
Johnny Patterson: The Singing Irish Clown Little John Nee
Strokehauling Devised by Barabbas... the company
The Cambria Donal O'Kelly
Vive La Donal O'Kelly

Consultant Director

Play Title Playwright
Fight Night Gavin Kostick

Co-conceived by Gavin Kostick and Aonghus Óg McAnally.
Radio Rosario Little John Nee

Movement Director

Play Title Playwright
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.

Hairdresser Performance Consultant

Play Title Playwright
My Son My Son Veronica Dyas

Inspired by Bertolt Brecht's The Mother.

Movement Advisor

Play Title Playwright
The Ballad of Charlie and Cate Ed Malone