Tilly (she/her) is an Independent Producer working across theatre, dance, interdisciplinary live performance and festivals.
Her work playfully traverses form and genre, you’ll find projects spanning a diverse array of subjects and performance modes – what unites them all is a desire to connect audiences and artists through the intimate act of storytelling.
She is Producer for Dead Centre, a Dublin-based theatre company presenting formally innovative theatre works and touring internationally. Recent projects with Dead Centre include To Be a Machine (Version 2.0) at Dublin Theatre Festival 2023, and the Beckett’s Room tour to Sejong Arts Centre and Seoul Performing Arts Festival, South Korea. In 2024 she will produce a new world premiere with Dead Centre as well as their international touring works.
Tilly also creates new works as an Independent Producer with a slate of artists including Murmuration, a collective of theatre artists based in Dublin; dance artists Robyn Byrne and Rachel Ní Bhraonáin; writer and performer Emer Heatley; and Director Julia Head.
Recent independent projects include the award winning MOSH (Project Arts Centre, Dublin Fringe Festival, 2023); Queen of the Meadows (in development, previewed at Dublin Dance Festival, 2022); Glimmer (Live Collision International Festival, 2022); Heat Sink (Dublin Theatre Festival, 2022); and Your Still Here (Dublin Fringe Festival, 2021).
Prior to returning to Ireland in 2020, Tilly worked at Headlong, where she was Assistant Producer across the company’s stage productions and short films, and toured across the UK’s main regional venues. Other companies she has worked with include Dublin Dance Festival, Landmark Productions, Headlong, TED Conferences, New York Live Arts, Live Collision International Festival, Amanda Coogan, and Dublin Theatre of the Deaf.
Other companies she has worked with include Dublin Dance Festival, Landmark Productions, Headlong, TED Conferences, New York Live Arts, Live Collision, Amanda Coogan, Dublin Theatre of the Deaf, Sugarglass Theatre, Create Ireland (National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts in Ireland), and Trans Live Art Salon. In 2016 Tilly co-founded Bombinate Theatre, an award-winning collective of theatre makers creating work for young audiences in Ireland.
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1. Alex O’Neill, Ben Sullivan, Toon Theunissen and Jack Bain in MOSH by Rachel Ni Bhraonáin at Dublin Fringe Festival. Image Credit: Simon Lazewski (2023)
2. Susanne Engbo-Andersen in Queen of the Meadows development at Shawbrook Dance. Image credit: Gareth Byrne (2022)
3. Róisín Harten in Glimmer by Robyn Byrne and Rachel Ni Bhraonáin at Live Collision. Image Credit: Abigail Denniston (2022)
4. Róisín Harten in Glimmer by Robyn Byrne and Rachel Ni Bhraonáin at Live Collision. Image Credit: Abigail Denniston (2022)
★★★★
the five cast members (who are exceptional) explode on to the stage in a flurry of bodies, potent bursts of energy and passionate releases
— Irish Times (for MOSH with Rachel Ní Bhraonáin)
warm and loving spotlight that shines on a subculture, teasing out the many and varied personal and communal reasons for its existence.
—The Reviews Hub; 5.5 Stars (for MOSH with Rachel Ní Bhraonáin)
★★★★
tests expectations of reality and theatrical illusion; this compelling, paradoxical production asks questions about the construction of our identity
— Irish Times (for To Be a Machine (Version 2.0) with Dead Centre)
★★★★
They are entertaining and gripping, turning in unexpected directions and hitting suddenly dark, tender or heart rending notes.
— The Guardian (for UNPRECEDENTED by Headlong)
★★★★
Both earnest and true, and at just 10 minutes it offers a profound experience — The Guardian (The Ghost Caller by Headlong)
★★★★
They are entertaining and gripping, turning in unexpected directions and hitting suddenly dark, tender or heart rending notes. — The Guardian (UNPRECEDENTED by Headlong)
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www.tillytaylor.com
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