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Deirdre Kinahan

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Deirdre Kinahan is a Dublin-based playwright and theatre producer who founded and ran Tall Tales Theatre Company for 15 years and is currently a board member of Theatre Forum Ireland. Deirdre wrote her first play in 1999 when a group of women at Ruhama Women's Project asked her to write a play about their lives as prostitutes. Be Carna was widely regarded as a powerful debut. Her play Moment played at the Bush to critical acclaim and sell out audiences in 2011 whilst her latest play These Halcyon Days won a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival 2013. Her new play Spinning opened at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2014. Deirdre has also been part of the Open Court season at the Royal Court with a play about the Irish economic crisis.

Company Jobs

Job Title Company
Artistic Director Tall Tales Theatre Company

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Attaboy, Mr. Synge! Deirdre Kinahan
Bé Carna Deirdre Kinahan
Bogboy Deirdre Kinahan
Dear Ireland I Manchán Magan Keith James Walker Eva O'Connor Mark O'Halloran Una McKevitt Carmel Winters Edna O'Brien Blindboy Boatclub Enda Walsh Aoife Martyn Emmet Kirwan Iseult Golden Arthur Riordan Andrea Molino Rosaleen McDonagh Sarah Hanly John O'Donovan (2) David Ireland John Connors Jody O'Neill Deirdre Kinahan Zoe Ní Riordáin Karen Cogan Jimmy Murphy Ursula Rani Sarma Zhu Yi Pom Boyd Stacey Gregg Thomas Kane Byrne Sinéad Burke Shane O'Reilly Dermot Bolger Nancy Harris Carys D. Coburn Meadhbh McHugh Owen McCafferty Colm Keegan (2) Frank McGuinness Sonya Kelly Phillip McMahon Feli Speaks Margaret Perry Darach Mac Con Iomaire Gina Moxley Abbie Spallen Joseph O'Connor (1) Michael West Kit de Waal Shaun Dunne Ciara Elizabeth Smyth
Embargo Deirdre Kinahan
Halcyon Days Deirdre Kinahan
Home Theatre (Ireland) Elaine Murphy Duke Special Little John Nee Robbie Blake Natalya O'Flaherty Finbarr Doyle Paul Mercier John Morton Shaun Dunne Feli Speaks Marc Mac Lochlainn Eva O'Connor Sorcha Fox Gavin Kostick Sharon Mannion Fionn Foley Deirdre Kinahan Sonya Kelly Clare Barrett (1) Tom Swift Louise Lewis Jody O'Neill Colin Murphy Jeda de Brí Carys D. Coburn Neil Watkins Fiona McGeown Roisin Ingle Nancy Harris Bryan Burroughs
Hue and Cry Deirdre Kinahan
Knocknashee Deirdre Kinahan
Maisy Daly's Rainbow Deirdre Kinahan
Melody Deirdre Kinahan
Moment Deirdre Kinahan
Passage Deirdre Kinahan
Rathmines Road Deirdre Kinahan
Rebecca's Robin Deirdre Kinahan
Rum and Raisin Alice Barry Deirdre Kinahan
Spinning Deirdre Kinahan
Summer Fruits Deirdre Kinahan
The Snow Child Deirdre Kinahan
The Tale of the Blue Eyed Cat Deirdre Kinahan
Tiny Plays for Ireland Darren Donohue Joseph O'Connor (1) Michael West Dermot Bolger Rachel Feehily Michelle Read Mark Hennessy Deirdre Kinahan Adrienne Michel-Long Karl O'Neill Gregory Rosenstock Rory Nolan Michael Cussen Ardal O'Hanlon Ronan Geoghegan Gerald Murphy Ciara Ní Chuirc Jody O'Neill Jesse Weaver Colin Murphy Antonia Hart Sean McLoughlin Rosaleen McDonagh Niamh Creely Evan Lee D'Alton
Wild Sky Deirdre Kinahan

Adaptations

Play Title Playwright
The Unmanageable Sisters Deirdre Kinahan Michel Tremblay

Actor

Play Title Playwright
Attaboy, Mr. Synge! Deirdre Kinahan
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Antoinette Duffy Oscar Wilde
Summer Fruits Deirdre Kinahan

Artistic Director

Play Title Playwright
Chance Maeve Ingoldsby Jennifer Mooney Jody O'Neill Lisa Keogh

Displacement by Jennifer Mooney; Foreign Affairs by Jody O'Neill; Even Clean Hands Cause Damage by Lisa Keogh; No One's Being Eaten by Sharks by Maeve Ingoldsby

Producer

Play Title Playwright
Melody Deirdre Kinahan
Passage Deirdre Kinahan