Current Participants

Mairéad is a bilingual freelance theatre practitioner and founded No Ropes Theatre company in 2005. No Ropes has recently produced Wasted (Irish Premiere) by Kate Tempest and The Open Couple by Dario Fo. Mairéad is a recipient of Arts and Disability Ireland Connect Scheme 2017.

During her FUEL residency, Mairéad will retell the Little Mermaid through the lens of landscape and feminism, working with YA author, Deirdre Sullivan.

Sarah O’Toole trained as an actor at Galway Youth Theatre and the Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin, and as a theatre director at Middlesex University in London, Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in Moscow (GITIS) and ISI, Denpasar in Bali. She teaches dram at NUIG and has run Galway Actors Workshop since 2008.  

Taking inspiration from The Mountaineer as Artist, by George Mallory, Sarah will develop a one-woman show based around mountaineering in both a historical and metaphorical context.

James  trained in physical theatre at LISPA in London and the ATP in Berlin. He was a core member of the alt-drag troupe The LipSinkers in London for 3 years, touring and performing extensively. He has been on stage with the ENO and the Vaults London, Absurda Comica in Berlin and has worked in choreography, devised theatre and children's theatre on both sides of the pond.

James will work with musician Anna Mullarkey during his FUEL residency, developing a buffoon theatre piece  examining the idea of charity and what a helping hand can mean.

Jacinta is an actor, playwright and theatre maker originally from Dublin, living in Co.Clare. She co-wrote and co-starred in box office hit, Waiting for IKEA ,which toured Ireland, England and New York and I'm not ADHD, I'm BOLD! which won The Bewley’s Little Gem Award in The Dublin Fringe Festival, 2012.

During her FUEL residency, Jacinta will develop a show about society's relationship with food, from binging to dieting to eating disorders.