People

Deirdre Kinahan

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 Margaret Perry Pom Boyd Joseph O'Connor (1) Stacey Gregg Kit de Waal Thomas Kane Byrne Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Keith James Walker Sinéad Burke Dermot Bolger Mark O'Halloran Carys D. Coburn Una McKevitt Meadhbh McHugh Blindboy Boatclub Colm Keegan (2) Emmet Kirwan Shane O'Reilly Phillip McMahon Rosaleen McDonagh Nancy Harris Darach Mac Con Iomaire David Ireland Owen McCafferty Jody O'Neill Frank McGuinness Feli Speaks Gina Moxley Abbie Spallen Michael West Shaun Dunne Manchán Magan Carmel Winters Eva O'Connor Enda Walsh Edna O'Brien Iseult Golden Aoife Martyn Sarah Hanly Arthur Riordan John Connors Andrea Molino John O'Donovan (2) Deirdre Kinahan Zoe Ní Riordáin Karen Cogan Jimmy Murphy Ursula Rani Sarma Sonya Kelly
Embargo	Deirdre Kinahan
Halcyon Days	Deirdre Kinahan
Home Theatre (Ireland)	Marc Mac Lochlainn Eva O'Connor Sorcha Fox Gavin Kostick Sharon Mannion Fionn Foley Deirdre Kinahan Sonya Kelly Clare Barrett (1) Tom Swift Jody O'Neill Louise Lewis Colin Murphy Jeda de Brí Carys D. Coburn Neil Watkins Fiona McGeown Roisin Ingle Bryan Burroughs Duke Special Robbie Blake Nancy Harris Elaine Murphy Little John Nee Natalya O'Flaherty Finbarr Doyle Paul Mercier John Morton Shaun Dunne Feli Speaks
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	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 Colin Murphy Rachel Feehily Sean McLoughlin Mark Hennessy Rosaleen McDonagh Adrienne Michel-Long Niamh Creely Evan Lee D'Alton Gregory Rosenstock Michael Cussen Ronan Geoghegan Ciara Ní Chuirc
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