Lucy Holmes
Lucy Holmes
Emerging Producer
Lucy Holmes is an actor, writer and theatre-maker from the midlands of Ireland.
She is the founder of FILTH!, a multidisciplinary theatre company that transforms spaces to tell new, experimental and genre-bending stories. Trained in acting for both stage and screen, Lucy graduated from Drama and Theatre studies in Trinity College Dublin, is a graduate of Bow Street Academy and is currently completing an MFA in Playwriting at The Lir Academy. Lucy has presented her multidisciplinary work at Electric Picnic, The Samuel Beckett Theatre and will present her upcoming work, THIS TOO SHALL PASS, in The Pearse Centre as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival. As well as her work with FILTH!, Lucy’s play There’s Nowhere Left To Go will also feature in this year’s Dublin Fringe, as a part of “Scripted,” in The Lir Academy.
THIS TOO SHALL PASS
Erin, a woman who has spent her formative years seeking mental health treatment is consumed by the need to understand the person at the centre of it all – Herself.
A waiting room, a private space, a rave, a spectacle, this live immersive theatre experience compels audiences to interact with their surroundings and engage with the inner turmoil of an individual trapped in an overwhelmed mental health system.
Please note Contains loud noise, strobe lighting and references to mental health. This performance is unseated with limited seating available.
Developed at FRINGE LAB. Supported by Dublin Fringe Festival’s Make Space for Art Fund and the Trinity Association and Trust.
Fringe Festival Link:
https://www.fringefest.com/festival/whats-on/this-too-shall-pass
Emerging Producers:
Mary Kilduff
Mary Kilduff
Emerging Producer
Mary Kilduff is a Creative Producer from Dublin, with over 10 years experience in the theatre and events industry.
Mary recently spent a year living and working in Rome doing a Masters in Arts and Culture Management.
Mary currently works part-time as the Creative Administrator at Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire, while also working on other passion projects as a freelance Creative Producer. Mary is also the Founder of The Cookbook Club, an event series in collaboration with Blasta Books bringing people together through the love of food and storytelling in the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Some of the highlights of Mary’s career include working with Druid Theatre Company in the Gaiety Theatre on a production of Sive that was attended by President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins; working on a remount of Dublin By Lamplight with Corn Exchange Theatre Company at the Abbey Theatre, the National Theatre of Ireland; and lastly, working with Australian-based company Hot Brown Honey on their 2023 tour, stopping at the Sydney Opera House and Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK.
GOOD GURL is being kept on a ward in Tallaght hospital against her will. During her stay in this well-lit hell, GOOD GURL comes to terms with her personal failings and the crimes against the State that landed her there. But GOOD GURL isn’t alone.She navigates the ward amidst stranger’s outbursts and even stranger health care professionals. In this darkly comedic satire, laughter and empathy intertwine to shed light on issues women have faced in Ireland for generations, offering an ode to self-preservation and resilience.”
Fringe Festival Link:
https://www.fringefest.com/festival/whats-on/suckin-diesel
Instagram:
@SUCKINDIESELDUBLIN
@HOLLY_FUREY
@KILDUFFMARY
Emerging Producers:
Gina Donnelly
Gina Donnelly
Emerging Producer
Gina Donnelly is an award winning playwright and producer. She works across multiple roles in theatre. She is one half of the theatre making partnership SkelpieLimmer.
In her work as SkelpieLimmer she has achieved massive success with ‘Two Fingers Up’ (co writer, co producer, co director) and ‘Scaredy Fat’ by Colm McCready (Producer, Assistant Director). Her writing credits include ‘Tea’; a piece about post-traumatic stress as a result of abortion restriction in Northern Ireland, ‘Ice Cream’, a piece about hidden homelessness and domestic violence, ‘What If We’d Stayed Angry’; a special commission for New York Origins First Irish Festival imagining Northern Ireland in 2050, for which she focused on the absence of proper government in Northern Ireland. She is currently working in her first TV Commission with Seón Simpson and her newest piece of writing ‘Love Is Mortifying’; a fairytale for the Tinder generation can be heard now on BBC Radio 4 and Sounds as part of BBC Shortworks. Her work with SkelpieLimmer has earned her multiple awards including Abbey Theatre and Dublin Fringe Creative Thinking Award 2019, Lustrum Award Edinburgh 2019, both for ‘Two Fingers Up’, and Edinburgh National Partnerships Pleasance Award 2023 for ‘Scaredy Fat’. SkelpieLimmer are currently developing a factual entertainment podcast inspired by ‘Two Fingers Up’. A weird and wonderful 60 minute show. Irrevernet and energetic, an uproarious corrective.
— The Irish News (Scaredy Fat)
— The Stage (Two Fingers Up)
Scaredy Fat by Colm McCready
Presented by SkelpieLimmer Productions
Fat, Queer and Turned on by Fear!
Scaredy’s working the cinema late shift. Tonight’s schedule? The horror movie sexual awakenings of yesteryear.
Stuffed with steamy recollections of Carrie and Candyman, Scaredy should be in ecstasy but evil horror host Count Calories keeps cutting in on the fun.
It’s time for Scaredy to face their fears and stop being such a big scaredy fat.
Come to the movies with Scaredy as they poke fun at fat and queer representation in the horror genre, asking what it means to love a genre that doesn’t love you back.
We’re gonna need a bigger shirt.
Developed at FRINGE LAB, The MAC Belfast, the Lyric Theatre, CQAF, MAKE and Scene+Heard. Supported by FRINGE LAB X field:arts, Les Enfants Terribles and Pleasance.
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Platforms. Image by Becky Cheatle. Dublin Fringe Festival.
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