FUEL Current Participants

Caomhnú Creative is a multimedia production collective rooted in literature, heritage, and conservation. It was founded in 2024 by writers Alice Kinsella and Daniel Wade who are based in Mayo. Alice’s published work includes Milk: On Motherhood and Madness and Empty House: Poetry and Prose on the Climate Crisis. She is an Arts Council of Ireland Next Generation Artist. Daniel’s work includes the play The Collector, the radio drama Crossing the Red Line, and the books Rapids and A Land Without Wolves. Together, Kinsella and Wade wrote Wake of the Whale (Mayo Books, 2024) which was selected as a Sunday Independent Book of the Year.

During FUEL, they will develop Wake of the Whale as a multimedia theatre piece, telling the story of the whaling stations which operated on the Mullet peninsula in the early twentieth century. Incorporating theatre, music, poetry, and digital art, Wake of the Whale aims to interrogate our past with an eye on the future, asking if the attitudes that brought whales to the brink of extinction are now threatening our own?

Aoife Delany Reade is a performance maker from Tipperary, living in Galway. Her practice lies in playwriting, and participatory and devised works. Her heart lies in creative projects that foster community. Her enduring interests lie in nature, nonsense and playing with words.

Her writing includes Moonrise (Theatre for One: This Ireland, Landmark Productions at Cork Midsummer Festival, 2024) & Bedtime (Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for A Brighter Future, 2021). In 2022, she was a Dublin Fringe ‘Artist at Work’ participant, developing her practice in eco-theatre. She is an associate artist with contemporary Australian artists one step at a time like this. Aoife has held positions with Galway Theatre Festival & Baboró Festival, and is a trained facilitator with Youth Theatre Ireland.

During her FUEL residency, Aoife will develop When All The World Is Quiet, a three-person monologue play written in poetic rhyme that imagines a version of Ireland that had never been colonised, asking questions about Irish indigeneity, colonialism, environmentalism and the place of mythology and folklore in our daily lives.

Martin is an academic and theatre-maker from Galway city. He is in the final stages of his PhD in Drama and Theatre Studies, "A Haunted State: Queer Cultural Memory and Performance in Ireland", at the University of Galway, and has recently published a chapter in the Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Irish Writing. 

He also holds a BA in Film Studies, English and French, and an MA in Theatre Practice and Production, also from the University of Galway. He began performing at 17, when he was a member of the Young Chorus in Druid's production of Seán O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie. His other performance work includes projects with Macnas and Galway Theatre Festival. He has previously received theatre directing mentorship from Fishamble.

During FUEL, Martin will develop The Haunted Cabaret, an ambitious blend of theatre and live music centred around the lives and afterlives of Edward Martyn, Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats, during the foundation of the Irish Literary Theatre (1899 - 1901). The piece aims to bring the ghosts of Ireland's literary giants back to the stage through a boisterous contemporary lens to consider the past, present and future of Ireland in new ways.

Eoin is a theatre-maker from Connemara in Galway and a native Irish language speaker. His work in Ireland includes the Irish language show Baoite at the Abbey Theatre (2018) and Branar’s The Table, a bilingual show in Irish and English, also at the Abbey Theatre (2023). Recent international work includes 12.37 at the Finborough Theatre (London), and How To Catch a Star by Branar at the Polka Theatre (London).

His passion is working in the Irish language and in 2024 he had the opportunity to work in this language in a unique way when he worked with other minority Celtic languages Gaelic and Welsh on the trilingual show Taigh/Ty/Teach. He helped develop the show with Theatre Gu Leor in Scotland, Fishamble in Ireland and Theatre Bara Caws in Wales before bringing it on tour, playing to sold-out houses in Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

Eoin’s radio play Rún, an Irish language play about the myth of the O’Connell Family and the seals of Connemara, won first prize at the Gradam Joe Steven competition in 2020, and was recorded and broadcast on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta. During his FUEL residency, Eoin will develop Rún for the stage.