10, Ingleside Drive, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, BT82 8QU,

Phone: 028 (048) 71383111

Mobile: 0044 7884233240

Email: a_mccay@hotmail.com

Aodh has directed over sixty productions of drama and comedy including: “Calendar Girls”,  “Caught in the Net”, “Run for Your Wife”, “Why Not Stay For Breakfast?”, “Wife Begins at Forty”, “Noises Off”, “I Do Not Like Thee, Dr Fell”, “Canaries”, “The Last Apache Reunion”, “Stella By Starlight",“Bedroom Farce”. He has acted in productions including ‘Twelve Angry Men’, ‘Caught in the Net ‘, ‘ Run For Your Wife’, ‘Why Not Stay For Breakfast’, ‘Stella By Starlight’, ‘The Last Apache Reunion’, ‘Philadelphia, Here I Come’, ‘I Do Not Like Thee, Dr Fell’, ‘A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant’, ‘The Passing Day’ and ‘Bedroom Farce’.

Aodh has been involved in the amateur drama circuit for over thirty years and has received numerous awards for Best Director, Best Acting and Best Stage Lighting in festivals throughout Ireland.

22, Grattan Hill,

St. Lukes,

Cork City.

E: t.mccleanefay@ucc.ie

M: 087 640 4187

Tony obtained a post-graduate degree in Performance Studies from Middlesex University in 1996 and an MA in Drama & Theatre Studies from UCC in 2004 and is currently studying for his PhD. He has been directing stage productions for approx. twenty years both in Ireland and the U.K. He was Technical Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Director of the Barnet Drama Centre and Manager of the Man in The Moon Theatre; all in London during the 1980’s and ‘90’s.

He was Stage Production Officer with Aberdeen District Council in Scotland, covering all the Council’s venues and Assistant Director of St. Stephen’s Theatre in Cardiff. He is currently Artistic Director of the Granary Theatre, Cork Youth Theatre and County Wexford Youth Theatre in Wexford and teaches on the undergraduate Drama & Theatre Studies degree programme in University College, Cork. Tony is a member of the Association of Theatre Directors, Ireland and is a Board Member of the National Association for Youth Drama and was a participant on Abbey Theatre/Dublin Theatre Festival/Theatre Forum ‘The Next Stage’ programme in 2008.

Recent directing credits include; Revolt - Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin (2016), A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Cork Midsummer Festival (2016), Hamlet for Granary (2016), missing - Wexford Arts Centre (2016), The Ballad of Charlie and Cate & The Liontamer by Ed Malone (2015), Love and Information by Caryl Churchill, The Elephant In The Room - devised (2014), Attempts On Her Life by Martin Crimp (2014), Desolate Heaven by Ailis NiRiain (Irish Premiere, 2014), The Real Inspector Hound / Cahoots MacBeth by Tom Stoppard (2013), Hamletmachine by Heiner Muller, UCC Drama & Theatre Studies 2nd Year production (2013), The Wonderful World of Dissocia by Anthony Neilson (2013), Cleansed by Sarah Kane (Irish Premiere, 2012), That Night Follows Day by Tim Etchells (Irish Premiere, 2013), Good Kids Drink Milk by Shaun Dunne, Fewer Emergencies by Martin Crimp, Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind (2011), Dog Days Are Over (Devised 2010), RENT by Jonathan Larson (2010), Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (2009), Brilliant (Work-in-progress) (David Farrell, 2009), Shut Up & Listen To Me!, And Once A Catholic (Devised/O’Malley 2009), This Is A Chair by Caryl Churchill and Beaten by Ailis Ni Riain (2008). Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh (2007/8 Revival), Offending The Audience & Frank Pig Says Hello (Hanke / McCabe 2006/7), Conspiracy Theory & Fowl (Both devised for Cork 2005), Face To The Wall by Martin Crimp (2004 Irish Premiere), Innocence by Frank McGuinness (2004 Revival) 4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane (2003 Irish Premiere), A is for Everything by Caitlin Murphy (2002 World Premiere), Cabaret by Kander & Ebb (2001).

L'Abri"

Sea Bank

Arklow

Co Wicklow

H: +353 (0)402 39800

M: +353 (0)86 244 7599

E: imeldamcdonagh@gmail.com

Imelda McDonagh is an award-winning director and actress with a first-class honours M.A. in Theatre Studies. She is a qualified Make-Up artist and holds a Licentiate in Speech and Drama from the London College of Music.

Favourite roles include Lady Bracknell in Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest, Blanche in William’s A Streetcar named Desire, Baglady in Frank McGuinness’ play of the same name, Stephanie in Kempinski’s Duet for One, Gertrude in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Kate in Miller’s All My Sons. Recently, she performed with the Dublin Shakespeare Society as part of the Shakespeare 400 celebrations and as Masie Madigan in O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock.

Also at home in the world of musical theatre, Imelda has won the coveted Association of Irish Musical Societies’ award for Best Director for her production of Kiss Me Kate and was nominated as Best Director for The Ha'penny Bridge.

Imelda has recently been awarded The Civic Merit Award for her services to the community by President Michael D. Higgins.

Secretary of the Association of Drama Adjudicators, she has enjoyed adjudicating throughout Ireland since 2001, including the Finals for MacranaFeirme and the ICA. She adjudicated the Confined Drama Finals in Tubercurry in 2017 and is looking forward to adjudicating the One-Act Finals in Kilmuckridge in December 2018 and the All-Ireland Drama Finals in Athlone in May 2019.

Currently, she delighted to be directing an exciting new musical drama based on the life of Michael Collins which will be staged as a Fringe Event for the Wexford Opera Festival in October 2018.

34, Ballyboden Crescent,

Ballyboden,

Rathfarnham, Dublin 16.

M: 086 104 4649

E: michael.a.x.mccabe@gmail.com | icharustheatre@gmail.com

MC CABE, Michael

Michael McCabe is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theater Jacques Lecoq, Paris, and the Gaiety School of Acting. His theatre appearances include ‘Borstal Boy’. ‘The Risen People’ (Gaiety Theatre), ‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘The Ginger Ale Boy’, (Corcadorca Theatre Company), ‘Lives Worth Living’ (Graffitti Theatre Company), ‘Bradan Feasa’, ‘Diarmuid agus Grainne’, ‘New World Order’, ‘The Libertine’, ‘The Changeling’, (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company), ‘Promises Promises’ (Project Arts Centre), ‘A Day With Daghdha’, (Daghdha Dance Company), ‘Resist Surrender’ (Dublin Dance Festival), ‘Wheel’, (Project Arts Centre), ‘Jeckyll and Hyde’ (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals), ‘Macbeth’, ‘St. Joan’, ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’, and ‘Ariel’ (The Abbey Theatre), ‘Where the Shoe Pinches’ (Pavilion Theatre), ‘City Of Clowns’ (Barabbas Theatre Company), and ‘Pagliacci’ (The Everyman Palace Theatre), which won best opera in The Irish Times Theatre awards 2013. He subsequently directed the highly acclaimed ‘The Dead Woman’s Son’ at Smock Alley Boy’s School theatre.

His television and film appearances include ‘Aristocrats’ (BBC), ‘Ireland : 1848’ ‘Window’, ‘All God’s Children’ (RTE and IFI), ‘Bean Sidhe’, ‘Sweetcake’, and the Irish feature film, ‘Sodium Party’. Michael has been working as a movement director and teaching extensive movement classes since 2002 at the Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dundalk Institute of Technology, the Department of Performing Arts and Dance, Bray Institute of Further Education, and the Gaiety School of Acting, as well as the HSE, the National Association for Youth Drama, and the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland. In 2014, he was movement director on ‘Guerilla Days in Ireland’ which played at The Olympia Theatre, and was invited by the Dublin Theatre Festival to participate in ‘The Next Stage’ professional development programme. In 2014, Michael also was rewarded a South Dublin County Council and SITI scholarship to train with the internationally renowned SITI Theater Company and Anne Bogart, where he directed and performed in ‘Persians’ in New York. Michael has recently appeared in Cathy Coughlan’s new dance film ‘Inside Out’

He formed a new physical theatre company, Icharus Theatre Company in 2013. Michael is interested in building a physical theatre ensemble based on the pedagogy and techniques of Jacques Lecoq and Anne Bogart. He wishes to create a new physical ensemble, to tell stories where the body is the primary form of expression. He sees theatre as an act of eulogy, to re-member, to provoke, to play, through the body, with an ensemble. As Anne Bogart says: ‘Our job in theatre is to find space for the audience’. Michael’s next project in 2016 will be movement director on ‘Collecting Dolls’ an exciting new venture, supported by The Civic Theatre, and funded by The Arts Council.

Curra Road

Gortachalla

Moycullen

Co Galway

H: +353 (0)91 556284

M:+353 (0)86 332 5369

E: brennmurray@eircom.net

Brendan is a graduate of the Gaiety School of Acting and UCD, holding an honours MA in Modern Drama Studies. He has worked as an actor/director for over 20 years in Dublin and Galway. He was a director of Punchbag Theatre in Galway in the 1990's and with the multi-award winning Fíbín Puppet & Performance Co in the 00’s. He has worked in most of the major theatres and whilst he does not do much acting on stage (the terror is too much!), he is regularly seen on TG4 (Aifric, Seacht, Síol), having been an original cast member of Ros na Rún. He has also worked with the BBC, RTE, Disney and Canadian TV. He was appointed Artistic Director of Áras Inis Gluaire/Erris Arts Centre in beautiful Belmullet last January. Brendan is a member of the A.D.A. for 7 years.

'Vienna',

Conary Upper,

Avoca,

Co. Wicklow

M: 087 233 4714

E: patnolan74@gmail.com

Dublin born, Pat Nolan has appeared in many T. V., Theatre, and Film Productions nationally and internationally. His many Theatre roles include:'Mahogany" with the San Francisco Repertory Theatre, ‘Grease’ at the Fallon House Theatre, California,'Pisces the Cod’ and "Hamlet" with the Abbey, "A Moon for the Misbegotten" with Vienna's International Theatre, ‘All my Sons’ at the Focus, `Storytellers’ with Storytellers Theatre Company, ‘Borstal Boy’ at the Gaiety Theatre, ‘Bouncers’ at the Tivoli Theatre, ‘Without the 'H’, "Scorpion", "Didis Big Day' and ‘Loco County Lonesome’ with his own company Black Box Theatre Co. 'Studs’, ‘Going Places’,‘Buddleia’ and ‘A Little Bit of Blue’ at Andrews Lane with The Passion Machine and Jimmy Murphy's one-man show ‘Aceldama’. He appeared in '12 Angry Men' for Lane Productions, in Dublin and a Nationwide tour. ‘I Keano’,at the Olympia, and ‘The Cherry Orchard’, at the Gate. And ‘Our Father’ at the New Theatre, as part of the Absolut Fringe Festival. He was last seen in the Gaiety Pantomime in ‘Cinderella’.

He has appeared in many Films including 'Sometime City", ‘The Courier’,‘Eat the Peach’ and ‘Taffin’. Recent film work includes: ‘Angela's Ashes’, ‘When The Sky Falls’, ‘The Magnificent Ambersons' and 'Batman Begins'

Probably best known from playing Barry O’Hanlon in RTE’s Fair City. In 2005 he won the International Award, the Rose d’Or for Best Soap Actor.

He currently runs Conary Community Arts in Avoca.

Cuisle Arts & Cultural Centre

St. Louis High School

Charleville Road

Rathmines

Dublin 6

Phone: 01 2805821

Fax: 2809219

E: bettyannnorton@eircom.net

Betty Ann is a Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music and Drama and the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Betty Ann has adjudicated at many Drama Festivals and Feis Competitions throughout Ireland, including the All Ireland Finals in Athlone.

For over fifty years she has been the Director of the Betty Ann Norton Theatre School and Agency and Core Youth Theatre. Recent Productions include the Irish premiere of Coram Boy by Helen Edmundson in The Mill Theatre and the O’Reilly Theatre to celebrate the School’s fiftieth anniversary and performances of The Importance of Being Earnest in Farmleigh House and Marley House.

Betty Ann has recently taken a break from adjudicating in order to focus on growing the Betty Ann Norton Theatre School and preparing her students for auditions, feiseanna and exams. Recently, she has directed shows in the Mill Theatre, Cuisle Centre for Arts as well as a series of promenade shows in association with OPW and Heritage week in Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin Castle, Pearse Museum and Farmleigh House.

11 Portersgate Grove

Dublin 15

H: +353 (0)86 8672293

E: peterjodriscoll@eircom.net

Peter was head of drama at St Patrick's College of Education in Drumcondra, Dublin, for many years. He was responsible for equipping the stage and maintaining its very fine facilities and training students to be technically proficient in all aspects of stage management, design and lighting. He directed many large and small scale productions and worked with student directors on their plays. Throughout the country, he directs many adult groups and is a professional lighting designer

In college, he contributes to the postgraduate masters' programme in Theatre Studies, specialising in workshops on improvisation, drama in education, directing and acting.

Peter has considerable experience as a musician; he is a choral conductor and organist and has produced a very wide range of musicals and some operas. He frequently has been musical director for shows. For several years he was an adjudicator with the Association of Irish Musical Societies (AIMS), a privilege which enabled him to see and comment on shows throughout the 32 counties.

Beltichbourne,

Co. Louth

M: 353 (0)87 9936307

E: okeeffeg@hotmail.com

Since beginning his adjudicating career in 2009, Geoff has adjudicated one act and full-length festivals all over the country.

Credits as a Director include, Fantastic Mr Fox and James And The Giant Peach,Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear,Othello and Macbeth, God Of Carnage, Frank Pig Says Hello, Talk To Me Like The Rain And Let Me Listen, Sharon's Grave and A Christmas Carol for Mill Productions.Cock by Mike Bartlett for Blue Heart Theatre Company at The New Theatre. The Astonished Heart for Behind The Moon Productions. At The Black Pig's Dyke for Cavan Culture Theatre Project and Lost Weekend by Gillian Grattan at Axis Theatre, Ballymun. He has written and directed seven hugely successful plays for young audiences.

Credits as an actor includeMy Second Self for No Tears Productions at Players Theatre, Trinity; Aul'Divina and Me/I for Biscuits for Breakfast Productions, Dinner for One, for Offaly Drama Project, Birr Theatre and Arts Centre; The Highest House on the Mountain for Tavistock Arts Theatre Company at Smock Alley Theatre; Billy Redden for IYT at The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, 2010, where he received the Michael Mc Liammoir Award for Best Male Actor; SPARC Productions’ A Whistle in the Dark and Hayfever for Shift Theatre Company.

He has worked for TV, radio and film and regularly facilitates workshops for groups around the country. He holds an MA in Theatre Studies from DCU.

Recent engagements include:

The All Ireland One Act Finals, Roscommon Arts Centre, 2013. The All Ireland Confined Finals, Claremorris, 2014, The RTE All Ireland Drama Festival Finals, Athlone, 2017 and Coolgreany and Western One Act Festivals, 2018.

Future engagements include:

West Waterford and Shercock Drama Festivals, 2019.

Dundrum One Act Festival, 2019.

Ballinamore and South Wicklow Drama Festivals, 2020. Wexford and Clare Drama Festivals, 2021.

Roscommon and Mid-Ulster Drama Festivals, 2022 and Mountmellick and Glenamaddy Drama Festivals, 2023.

The Old Barracks

17 Duncrun Road

Bellarena

Co Derry BT49 0JD

Northern Ireland

H: +44 (0)2877 750240

M:+44 (0)7777 683908

E: michaelpoynor@hotmail.com

President and Chair of ADA, Michael was born in the Falkland Islands and educated in Argentina and England, and trained for theatre at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (L.A.M.D.A.), London.

He has been Artistic Director for the LYRIC THEATRE, Belfast; HARROGATE THEATRE, Yorkshire; STAGE '80 THEATRE COMPANY, Belfast; ULSTER YOUTH THEATRE; THE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF WALES: and, currently the ULSTER THEATRE COMPANY.

He was Chief Executive of the MILLENNIUM FORUM in Derry and Head of Culture and Arts at QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY, Belfast.

He is an award winning Director and Lighting Designer having directed over 150 productions, Designed Sets for 120 and Lighting for over 250, as well as Fight Directing for nearly 100 productions.

He has written a string of burlesque pantomimes including Scrooge’s Christmas; Alice! (a musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's most famous books); a new version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s best known operetta: Rockin’ Mikado which was nominated ‘Best Visiting Production’ in the 1998 Manchester Theatre Awards; Comedy of Errors: The Musical (2013) and Jonathan Harker and Dracula (2014).

Amongst the productions he has directed are: The UK provincial premieres of Jesus Christ Superstar, Grease, Hello Dolly and Once a Catholic at the LYRIC THEATRE, Belfast; Interview and The Bald Prima Donna at the ASHCROFT THEATRE, Croydon; Indians, Schweyk in the Second World War, What the Butler Saw and Noises Off at the LYRIC THEATRE, Belfast; The Glass Menagerie, Relatively Speaking and The Happiest of the Three at the OVERGROUND THEATRE, Kingston-upon-Thames; Alphabetical Order, Equus, Joseph and the Amazing… and Candida at HARROGATE THEATRE; The Snoopy Show, Hello and Goodbye, Ashes, Kelly's Book and Crack-Up for STAGE '80, How the Other Half Loves, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for THEATRE ULSTER; Can't Pay? Won't Pay!, The Mating Season, The Boyfriend, and Leave Him to Heaven for the ARTS THEATRE, Belfast; Oh, What A Lovely War, The War of the Worlds for the ULSTER YOUTH THEATRE, La Belle Helene for CASTLE WARD OPERA CO. and West Side Story with the Ulster Orchestra at the Klondike in Belfast for OPERA NORTHERN IRELAND.

For the ULSTER THEATRE COMPANY he directed Murder in the Cathedral (1998) (Sell out production for Belfast Festival at Queen’s at St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast); West Side Story, A Chorus Line, Oklahoma and the RSC’s version of The Wizard of Oz all of which toured the UK and Ireland.

In 2009 he directed and choreographed the ‘on pitch’ celebrations at the 80,000 seat Croke Park Stadium, Dublin, for the GAA 125th anniversary celebrations.

Festivals adjudicated include:

The first International (IATA) Festival in Ireland at the Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen – 1990

Finals of the New Zealand Theatre Federation Festival in Wellington – 1992

All Ireland Confined Drama Finals in Enniscorthy – 1998

Irish Student Drama Association Finals – 2014

Northern Ireland One Act Finals - 2019

Michael will be adjudicating the RTE All-Ireland Finals in Athlone in May 2020

Recent Engagements:

Ballinamore Drama Festival - 2019

Northern Ireland One Act Finals - 2019

North Cork (Charleville) – 2018

Glasgow District One Act – 2017

South Wicklow Drama Festival – 2017

Enniskillen Drama Festival – 2017

Newtownards One Act Festival – 2016

Shercock Drama Festival – 2016

Eastern Division One Act Finals (Scotland) – 2016

Strabane Drama Festival – 2015

Roscommon Drama Festival - 2014

11, The Green,

Kingswood,

Dublin 24.

Mob: 0868440866

Home: 014518962.

Email: annadrama@hotmail.com

Anna has been a member of ADA since 2008, and has relished the opportunity to adjudicate at festivals the length of breadth of Ireland. She is proud to have adjudicated The All Ireland One Act Festival in Ennis in 2011, the Three Act Confined Finals in Castleblayney in 2016, and the All Ireland Open Festival in Athone in 2018. Her future adjudicating commitments include; West Cork One Act Festival 2018, Western Drama Festival 2019, Doonbeg Drama Festival 2020, Kilmuckridge Drama Festival 2021, Wexford Drama Festival 2022, Roscommon Drama Festival 2023, and Carrickmore Drama Festival 2024.

Anna has an M.A. in Drama and Theatre Studies from U.C.D., and a diploma of Associate and Licentiate from the Royal Irish Academy. Her working life embraces a wide range of Drama disciplines and activities. She is Senior Drama Examiner with the Royal Irish Academy, tutors Drama students, adjudicates Festivals and Feiseanna, and has directed for a number of Acting Companies.

She trod the boards as an amateur actress with The Olivian Players in Dublin where she won a host of best acting awards. The professional stage beckoned, and she relished the opportunity to work on stage, screen and television. Her favourite stage roles include, Hedda in Hedda Gabler, Woman, in To, and Dr. Martha Livingstone in Agnes of God.

She is a regular visitor to London, where she engages in courses in The National Theatre, and The Globe Theatre.