Dramaturg, facilitator, collaborator, researcher and maker.
At the heart of creative processes for over 20 years, working across theatre, dance, immersive and digital projects - and everything in-between.
An experienced facilitator and teacher of dramaturgy, artistic processes and storytelling. Creating inventive platforms and projects to engage and advocate for artists locally, nationally and internationally.
Endlessly curious, boundary breaking and passionate, projects, research and pre-occupations are centred around a dramaturgy of change; sensory, visceral and thought-provoking experiences, connecting people and ideas and continually challenging how we do things.
Dramaturg
Dramaturg and collaborator across theatre, dance, immersive, audio and digital specialising in new writing, world building and interdisciplinary processes.
Facilitator
An experienced facilitator of artists’ development processes, focussing on exploration, collaboration and innovation - designed programmes, residencies, workshops and teaching.
Maker/Researcher
Practice-based research: immersive audio, sensory and embodied dramaturgy in arts and health, digital storytelling and live performance.
About me
More about me and how to get in touch.
Featured Projects
A Call To You by Catherine Young Dance, May 2022 for the Dublin Dance Festival
A new piece of evocative theatre by Brú Theatre Company. Galway December 2021.
PhD project creating immersive audio stories for people living with Parkinson’s disease
Take Me Somewhere in development for Dublin Theatre Festival’s Futures programme. Image: JR Korpa
In-house dramaturg at Tinderbox Theatre Company 2004 - 2017.
An International Cross-Art Form artists residency in collaboration with The Performance Corporation.
An Immersive Audio performance piece about acquired brain injury.
Latest
Presenting at the XR Audio Lab 2022
Chapter: Navigating The Unknown by Hanna Slattne
Article: Dramaturging From Within. Critical Stages December 2021
Floating On A Dead Sea. Catherine Young Dance. November 2021
The Dramaturgs’ Network 20th anniversary and KTA award
A feature length interview with Shannon Yee and Hanna Slattne on the making of Reassembled Slightly Askew
Stronger in a production by Gúna Nua at the Dublin Theatre Festival 2021.
An article for The Writing Platform