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Paul Meade

(Medea)

Paul Meade is Artistic Director of Gúna Nua Theatre, and is a writer, director, and actor. From Limerick, Paul trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, and later received an M.A. in modern drama from U.C.D. His work as a writer includes Trousers (with David Parnell), Thesis (with Gerry Dukes and David Parnell), Scenes From a Water Cooler (with David Parnell) and Skin Deep which won him the Stewart Parker Trust Award. He has also translated the Romanian plays Stop The Tempo, All These Guys and Our Father Who Art in the Supermarket. He also wrote Mushroom for Storytellers Theatre Co. Paul is currently under commission from the Irish Council for Bioethics. For Gúna Nua Paul has co-directed the award-winning Little Gem, Scenes From a Water Cooler as well as Trousers and Taste by David Parnell, and The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard. He directed The Shawl for Bewley’s Café Theatre, Translations for Hands Turn Theatre, Medea for Threshold and Death and the Maiden for Mirage.

John Anthony Murphy

(Macbeth)

John, from Limerick, has appeared in Borrowed Robes (nominated Best Actor, ITAs 1999), Pigtown, The Taming of the Shrew, Lovers, The Colleen Bawn, Hamlet, The Elephant Man, Home is the Hero (Island), Playboy of the Western World (Everyman), Rum and Raisin (Tall Tales - nominated Best Actor, Dublin Fringe Festival), Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar (Rattlebag). The Well of the Saints (Big Telly). Film/TV: Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese), Angela’s Ashes (Alan Parker) and Fair City. Winner of MAMCA 2007 (Best Director). As a Writer: Smallone.

Ciarda Tobin

(Blood Wedding)

Ciarda Tobin is a member of Amalgamotion Theatre Company for which she has produced a number of experimental pieces including Read to Me, Propose, Duet, Thinksmith, Suvi & Inverno and Faustus. Amalgamotion are currently producing The Fisherman’s Son for the Limerick Theatre Hub. She co-curated the Mamuska series for Daghdha Dance Company in 2008 and directed pieces for Teaspach, Limerick Youth Theatre, Comhaltas Luxemburg and Glór. She performed in a production of Yerma in the Samuel Beckett Centre and is delighted to have this opportunity to revisit Lorca.