Carla Rogers
Carla Rogers
Associate Producer
Carla (she/her) is Producer for MALAPROP, a field:arts Associate Company.
Carla is a freelance theatre, dance and festival producer and arts marketer. She is also a founding member of MALAPROP, a Dublin-based collective of emerging theatre-makers. She is Associate Producer with THISISPOPBABY and has worked with contemporary theatre and dance artists such as Outlandish Theatre, Sibéal Davitt, Veronica Dyas, FemmeBizarre, and Veronica Coburn, and on such festivals as WHERE WE LIVE, LIVE COLLISION and THE THEATRE MACHINE TURNS YOU ON Vol. 5.
Selected producing credits include Before You Say Anything and 1,000 Miniature Meadows (Dublin Fringe Festival 2020), Not A Funny Word (Tour 2018), and she has produced tours of work to Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Paris, Beijing and Australia.
Other roles include Marketing Manager, Artist Liaison, Project Manager, Facilitator, and Researcher. She has also worked with Project Arts Centre, Irish Theatre Institute, Youth Theatre Ireland, Dublin International Film Festival, Landmark Productions, and The Ark.
Carla has a BA in Modern Irish and Film Studies, and graduated with an MA in Cultural Policy and Arts Management in 2017.
★★★★
This thoughtful and skilfully executed work is subtle, timely and beautifully paced…riveting moments. — The Irish Times (Before You Say Anything)
★★★★
Malaprop’s deeply layered meta-theatricality dances a step ahead of the audience, teasing and probing… Under the intellectual knots of ethics and philosophy, the company’s trademark wit remains. — The Guardian (Everything Not Saved)
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1. Party Scene by THISISPOPBABY. Photo credit: Joe McGovern (2021)
2. Before You Say Anything by MALAPROP. Photo credit: Simon Lazewski (2020)
3. 1000 Miniature Meadows by Luke Casserly and Shanna May Breen. Photo credit: Fergal Styles (2020)
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Mags Keohane
Mags Keohane
Associate Producer
Mags is Producer for Dead Centre Theatre Company, a field:arts Associate Company.
Mags Keohane is company producer of Dublin based theatre company Dead Centre. Founded in 2012 by Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd, Dead Centre has gained a reputation as one of Europe’s most innovative and exciting young theatre companies. Mags has worked on Dead Centre’s recent premiere of Good Sex at Dublin Theatre Festival 2022 and Dead Centre touring productions including Chekhov’s First Play to MESS Festival, Sarajevo 2021, To Be a Machine (Version 1.0) to Le Cent-Quatre, Paris 2021 and Beckett’s Room to Theatre de Liege, Belgium and Warwick Arts Centre, UK in 2021 and to Teatro del Piccolo, Milan in 2022. As an Independent Producer Mags works across theatre, dance and interdisciplinary performance. Recent credits include Opening Night by Jane Deasy (Dublin Fringe Festival 2022, Winner: Best Design), Also for Roaring by Roisin Stack (Black Box Theatre, 2021) In It For The Long Run with Cork Dance Initiative (Cork Midsummer Festival 2021), Spliced by writer-performer Timmy Creed (Cork Midsummer 2018 & Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019). Recent productions for young audiences include The Dead Letter Office by Mary-Lou McCarthy (A Co-Production with The Civic & The Everyman, Cork, 2022) and Making Waves by Jess Rowell touring in 2023. Mags graduated with distinction from a Masters in Theatre Practice at the University of Glasgow. To get in touch and for further credits visit: magskeohane.com.
★★★★
A powerful piece of physical theatre. — Scotsman (Spliced by Timmy Creed)
★★★★
Heartfelt plea for a broader more inclusive conception of masculinity. — The Arts Desk (Spliced by Timmy Creed)
image:credits 1. Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín and musician Solamh Kelly in In It For The Long Run by Cork Dance Initiative. Photo credit: Jed Niezgoda (2021) 2. Timmy Creed in Spliced by Timmy Creed. Photo credit: Eamon Ward (2019) 3. Good Sex by Dead Centre with Emilie Pine. Photo credit: Ste Murray (2022)
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Rachel Bergin
Rachel Bergin
Associate Producer
Rachel is Creative Producer of Dublin based theatre companies Brokentalkers and Chaos Factory.
Brokentalkers are a multi-award winning company, founded in 2001 by Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keegan. Brokentalkers make formally ambitious work that defies categorization and have built a reputation as one of Ireland’s most innovative and original theatre companies. Chaos Factory is an emerging experimental theatre company led by Rachel Bergin, Venetia Bowe & Fionnuala Gygax. Chaos Factory’s work is physically led, putting the body at the centre of their exploration in order to make theatre that is playful, strange and beautiful.
Rachel holds a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin. In 2018 Rachel was awarded a Bursary for Professional Development from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Rachel has recently been awarded an Arts Council Theatre Bursary Award 2020. Rachel was an Artist in Residence at Dublin Fringe Festival 2019-2021 and is an Associate Producer at field:arts.
Rachel’s recent producing credits include: The Boy Who Never Was (Brokentalkers, Dublin Theatre Festival), Hotel Happiness (Chaos Factory, Dublin Fringe Festival), The Examination (Leinster & International Tour 2022), RISING (Brokentalkers, Algorithm & Dublin Theatre Festival 2021), MASTERCLASS (Brokentalkers & Adrienne Truscott, Dublin Fringe Festival 2021, International Touring), The Spider’s House (Project Arts Centre and Arts & Disability Ireland Co-Production), Gym Swim Party (A Co-Production with O’Reilly Theatre, Dublin Fringe Festival 2019), A Different Wolf (Associate Producer, Junk Ensemble), MorphMe (BITE SIZE // SCRATCH, Live Collision 2019), WOMB (First Fortnight 2019), Son of a Preacher Man (Theatre Machine 2019), Kiss Kiss Slap Slap (Dublin Fringe 2018), LUNA (Galway Theatre Festival 2018), Fierce Notions (Dublin Fringe 2017, Winner: DFF Judges Choice Award). Her recent directing credits include, Abair/Samaa (Bealtaine Festival 2019), The Examination (Associate Director, Brokentalkers, Winner: Irish Time Theatre Awards Best Production & Best Soundscape 2020, DFF Best Production & Best Performer: Willie White 2019), The Circus Animals’ Desertion (Assistant Director, Brokentalkers).
★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★
A stunning dissection of patriarchy, privilege and performance in a forceful work about sanctified male writers – The List
Inspired interrogation of ‘the great male artist – The Stage
No easy escapes…. an absorbing production. — The Irish Times (The Examination by Brokentalkers)
Superbly slippery piece of theatre. — The Stage (The Examination by Brokentalkers)
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1. Fionnuala Gygax, Danielle Galligan, Venetia Bowe and Michael-David McKernan in Kiss Kiss Slap Slap by Rachel Bergin, Venetia Bowe, Danielle Galligan & Fionnuala Gygax. Photo Credit: Anthony O’Connor (2018)
2. MASTERCLASS (Brokentalkers & Adrienne Truscott, Dublin Fringe Festival 2021, International Touring), Photo credit: Ste Murray
3. Willie White in The Examination by Feidlim Cannon & Gary Keegan. Photo Credit: Luca Truffareli (2019)
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