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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 Zhu Yi Edna O'Brien Sonya Kelly Aoife Martyn Pom Boyd Margaret Perry Arthur Riordan Stacey Gregg Joseph O'Connor (1) Andrea Molino Thomas Kane Byrne Kit de Waal John O'Donovan (2) Sinéad Burke Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Dermot Bolger Carys D. Coburn Keith James Walker Meadhbh McHugh Mark O'Halloran Colm Keegan (2) Una McKevitt Blindboy Boatclub Phillip McMahon Emmet Kirwan Darach Mac Con Iomaire Rosaleen McDonagh David Ireland Jody O'Neill Carmel Winters Enda Walsh Iseult Golden Sarah Hanly John Connors Shane O'Reilly Nancy Harris Owen McCafferty Frank McGuinness Feli Speaks Gina Moxley Abbie Spallen Deirdre Kinahan Michael West Zoe Ní Riordáin Shaun Dunne Karen Cogan Manchán Magan Jimmy Murphy Ursula Rani Sarma Eva O'Connor
Embargo Deirdre Kinahan
Halcyon Days Deirdre Kinahan
Home Theatre (Ireland) Clare Barrett (1) Jody O'Neill Colin Murphy Jeda de Brí Carys D. Coburn Sonya Kelly Neil Watkins Fiona McGeown Tom Swift Roisin Ingle Louise Lewis Bryan Burroughs Nancy Harris 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
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 Rosaleen McDonagh Gregory Rosenstock Niamh Creely Michael Cussen Evan Lee D'Alton Ronan Geoghegan Ciara Ní Chuirc Jesse Weaver Antonia Hart Darren Donohue Joseph O'Connor (1) Michael West Dermot Bolger Michelle Read Deirdre Kinahan Karl O'Neill Rory Nolan Ardal O'Hanlon Gerald Murphy Jody O'Neill Rachel Feehily Colin Murphy Mark Hennessy Sean McLoughlin Adrienne Michel-Long
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