Ruth McCullough

Ruth McCullough

Independent Creative Producer

Ruth McCullough – Creative Director & Producer specialising in art, technology and sustainability

Working between Ireland, the UK and internationally she has initiated and produced projects that foreground support for emerging artists and artforms, often exploring the creative potential of emerging technology and science. Her experience commissioning and producing public artworks and programmes (festivals, film, exhibition, performance, online, outdoor, interactive and research) centres artists and audiences in critical conversations about our changing world.

Between 2009-2023 she was Producer then Director of Abandon Normal Devices (AND), a radical arts organisation situated in the North of England curating experiences, commissioning, and incubating new art, cinema, and sound. During that time she led the development of the AND Festival the UK’s only roaming digital biennial. Working with international artists, musicians, filmmakers and directors such as; Matthew Plummer Fernandez (UK), Beatrice Dillon (UK), Mark Amerika (US), Addie Wagenknecht (US), Daito Manabe (JP), !Mediengruppe Bitnik (CH), Ubermorgen (AT), Studio Roosegarde (NL), Eva & Franco Mattes (IT), Julian Oliver (NZ), Brody Condon (US), and Anita Fountaine (NZ).





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1. In the Eyes of the Animal, Marshmallow Laser Feast, AND Festival (2015)

2. Taut Line, Beatrice Dillion, AND Festival (2017)

3. Waterlicht, Studio Roosegrade, AND Festival (2017)



Between 2017-19 she initiated and produced COSMOS a flagship international art-science residency and commission exploring deep space in collaboration with the University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Observatory, AND and the bluedot Festival. Between 2014-19 she led two Creative Europe partnershsip projects, Masters & Servers and the New Networked Normal that focused on art and activism online with partners in Spain, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany and the Netherlands, collaboratively producing a range of artworks, exhibitions, events and publications.

In 2023 she relocated to her native Belfast and continues to develop and produce national and international collaborations focused on art, technology and sustainability, including;
• Executive Producer for Immersive Arts, a £6 million UK-wide programme supporting artists to make and share extraordinary immersive work.
• Sustainability & Artistic Development Lead at Lost Farm Festival, a new festival hosting experiments across art, music, and performance at Sjællands Odde peninsula in Denmark, launching August 2025.
• New Rhythms, a slow collaborative research project exploring regenerative cultures, emerging technology and new ways of producing in the arts.



Proud Ngwenya

Proud Ngwenya

Independent Creative Producer

Proud Ngwenya – Creative Producer & multi-disciplinary Artist

Proud infuses his role with a distinctive perspective that seamlessly blends creativity and production. His journey began as a dancer, where he competed nationally and shared his expertise through teaching. Before transitioning into the world of music, where Proud has graced stages nationwide, including renowned venues like the RDS, as the support act for luminaries such as Rihanna.

With over a decade of experience in the music industry, Proud is also the co-founder of DIAxDEM, an independent record label based in Dublin. Established in 2018, DIAxDEM boasts a diverse roster of Artists, Producers, and DJs united by a shared passion for music and visual arts, exploring a multitude of genres.



As a creative producer, Proud is dedicated to bringing ideas to fruition, adeptly bridging the gap between creativity and production. His invaluable insights elevate each project he undertakes. Despite a flourishing career in advertising, where he works with both domestic and international brands, Proud remains deeply committed to his artistic endeavours.

Proud’s portfolio shines with collaborations alongside renowned artists such as Farah Elle and ALYXIS. Currently, he is immersed in a project named DULANII, the Arabic phrase for “guide the way,” which delves into the exploration of music & movement as medicine, embodying Proud’s unwavering dedication to his craft.


Ois O’Donoghue

Ois O’Donoghue

Independent Creative Producer

Ois O’Donoghue – Creative Producer & interdisciplinary Theatremaker & Writer

Her practice focuses on the exploration of the bounds of medium and genre, delving into the things that seperate us and bring us together in an increasingly divided world. Her work focuses on themes of isolation, queerness and societal progression and regression, all from an Explicitly Trans perspective.

Most notably, Ois recently created the critically acclaimed play HYPER alongside Jaxbanded Theatre. HYPER premiered at the 2023 Dublin Fringe Festival in Smock Alley Theatre. It ran from the 18th to the 23rd of September, receiving a 5-star review from The Irish Times and sell out performances. It was nominated for the Fishamble New Writing Award and The George Fitzmaurice Award at the Dublin Fringe Awards.

Ois was also selected for Bewley’s Cafe Theatre’s prestigious playwright development scheme Percolate 2024 -2026, a programme through which she is beginnning the development of her next play SUPLEX. Alongside this she is currently writing a new piece for Landmark and Octopus Theatrical’s ‘Theatre For One’ which will debut at Cork Midsummer Festival 2024.



★★★★★
Conveys, in exquisite detail, the realities of the everyday trans existence…Five Stars is Not Enough
– The Irish Times (HYPER)

★★★★
Brave, exhilarating, and refreshingly fearless
– The Arts Review (HATE F%#K)

In 2020, Ois co-founded Jaxbanded Theatre with collaborator Ruairi Nicholl, where she would go on to create works in a variety of mediums, including the short film Camping At The End Of The World, the concept album and gig theatre piece Sentimental: A New Gig Musical, as well as the virtual interactive theatre piece Aion which would go on to be accepted into the 2023 Game Developers World Championship. In 2023 Jaxbanded performed HYPER Dublin Fringe Festival and Sentimental: A New Gig Musical at the Scene & Heard 2023 Festival. Most recently, Jaxbanded created a new play HATE F%#K, written by Jodie Doyle and Directed by Ois O’Donoghue which received it’s premiere in The New Theatre in April 2024.

In a Producing capacity, Ois has worked alongside Lovano, United Fall and Martha Knight on productions such as Night Dances, What We Hold, King Shrine, Gold In The Water and The King Of All Birds. Ois also acted as Co-Director of the 2023 ISDA Festival alongside Daniel Culleton. She is currently the Company Manager of United Fall.

Ois holds an MA in Theatre Practice from University College Dublin.



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1. HATE F%#K. Leanne Bickerdike in HATE F%#K, Written by Jodie Doyle, Directed by Ois O’Donoghue, Created by Jaxbanded Theatre at The New Theatre. Photo credit: Al Craig

2. HYPER. Ois O’Donoghue, Christopher O’Shaughnessy and Fiona Larmon in HYPER, Written and Directed by Ois O’Donoghue, Created by Jaxbanded Theatre at Dublin Fringe 2023. Photo credit: Simon Lazewski

3. The King of All Birds. Martha Knight in The King of All Birds, Written by Martha Knight and Directed by Joy Nesbitt, Produced by Ois O’Donoguhe at Dublin Fringe 2023. Photo credit: Kilian Harrison


Iarlaith Ní Fheorais

Iarlaith Ní Fheorais

Independent Creative Producer

Iarlaith Ní Fheorais is a curator and writer and the author of the free online resource Access Toolkit for Artworkers.

She is an Independent Producer at field:arts, working with artists Bridget O’Gorman and Ebun Sodipo. She has previously curated the 21st edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and curated Speech Sounds as Curator-in-Residence of VISUAL Carlow. As a writer she has written for publications including Frieze, Burlington Contemporary, Viscose Journal and Girls Like Us. She regularly contributes towards public programmes and lectures including at Somerset House, KW Institute, Konstfack University, Royal College of Art and Arts and Disability Ireland. She has sat on numerous selection panels including EVA Platform Commision 2025, Unlimited International Open Award and Edinburgh Arts Festival Platform 2023.



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1. honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise, TULCA Festival of Visual Art, TULCA Gallery. Philipp Gufler: ‘Quilt #47 (Charlotte Wolff)’, 2022; Jamila Prowse, Crip Quilt, 2023; Paul Roy, various works, 2023. Photo credit: Ros Kavanagh

2. Miraculous Thirst how to get get off in days, exhibition by Lyónn Wolf and Eimear Walsh, supported by Basic Space, at Galway Arts Centre. Photo credit: Tom Flanagan (2018)

3. Speech Sounds, ARTWORKS 2022, VISUAL Carlow. Bridget O’Gorman, Non-Verbal 1, 2, 3, 2022; Jenny Brady, Receiver, 2019. Photo credit: Ros Kavanagh.

4. OH – INFAMY – WE EAT ELECTRIC LIGHT, Ulysses. 2.2., Oonagh Young Gallery. Lyónn Wolf Haugh and Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, 2022. Photo credit: Louis Haugh.






In recent years Iarlaith Ní Fheorais has curated exhibitions which radically reconsider how an audience can [be] invited to gather… In bringing together this festival she has opened up spaces that necessarily and genuinely make art accessible to wider and diverse communities. This festival continues her rigorous practice of manifesting urgent and innovative approaches to curating.
— Frank Wasser, RTÉ Culture; Cure and Care in Galway – the TULCA Visual Arts Festival reviewed

Writing, film, sound, storytelling, and experiential works all have a strong presence in the programme, bridging the gap between archival research and more immersive, haptic, and sensory experiences. This is a valuable way to shine a light on stories that have been previously confined to archives.
— Rosa Abbott, Paper Visual Art; TULCA 2023: honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise, multiple venues, Galway, 3–19 November 2023

…by referencing the life of Beegan as a symbol for others who have been denied agency, and by contextualizing this discussion within the troubled legacy of institutionalization in Ireland and elsewhere, the festival draws a link between the politics of the body and the production of art.
— Chris Hayes, Texte Zur Kunst; The Paucity of Care Chris Hayes on TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway.

Repurposing tools of display and presentation is not only seen in multiple works within the show but also in TULCA’s exhibition design. Access tools, which are often regarded as merely functional and in opposition to aesthetic, curatorial, and artistic decisions, seem to merge effortlessly into the exhibition architecture and contest ableist display standards.
— Theresa Zwerschke, Arts of the Working Class; On the Medical Condition of a Landscape.

Renn Miano

Renn Miano

Independent Creative Producer

Renn is an arts producer,dj/writer, photographer, archivist & anti disciplinary artist and cultural curator.

Renn is the founder of Origins Eile a Black Queer community collective. DJ with CO-OP label DIAxDEM Renn is a mentor and mess maker. If they aren’t burning jazzed up pizza they can be found by the sea or watching real housewives of potomac.

Renn is outspoken, unequivocal and resourceful. With nearly ten years of creative work behind them, they are empathetic in their approach to community work through arts and dedicated in their focus on inclusion and the uplifting of marginalised voices. A member of Blackfish Collective, the co-founder of independent music label DIAxDEM, an actor, a DJ, one part of the inception, push and branding of GXRLCØDE (a creative platform for females across the creative industries), a producer with Goldmoth Media and a podcaster on Éalú – Also of note – Founder of Black Queer arts collective/org Origins Eile.

Since starting out as a photographer, Miano has always had sights on the bigger picture. Named as one of the ‘People To Watch in 2018’ in both the Irish Times & GCN, their entrepreneurial work to date has always been to uplift their community.

In 2015 Renn started working with musician, producer & filmmaker Sal Stapleton (aka ALYXIS). Interned with Goldmoth Media as an assistant then was employedas a web designer and producer for small commercial projects and music videos. Also working as an Artist Liaison for festivals such as Body & Soul and Electric Picnic and has acted as Stage Manager for the Trenchtown Electric Picnic stages.

2016 saw Renn managing Blackfish Collective, of which she is a member. Blackfish Collective gained success after their Roundhouse Resident Artists win for AFROPUNK’S (2018) highly sought-after slot in London.

After a stint as Bad Bones Manager Renn made the move to Tour Manager. And since started a co-op record label DIAxDEM with Renn acting as A&R and Management. They also DJ – making a conscious effort to play music by POC or queer artists.

In early 2017 Renn was integral to the inception of GXRLCØDE, working on the branding, launch, event and name. Recognising the importance in seeing Themselves represented the decision was taken to play on gender and wording, hence GXRLCØDE. 2018 Irish times one to watch”



Previously Karen has written for GAL-DEM & GCN, and is currently working on an immersive sound piece called RENN IN UTERO as part of LIVE COLLISON.

With nearly 10 years of creative work behind them, outspoken, unequivocal, resourceful, and empathetic in their approach to community work through arts, ​Karen Miano is an artist and creative with a focus on inclusion and uplifting marginalised voices.