Andrew is the director of Theatre at Galway Arts Centre and the Artistic Director of Decadent Theatre Company. He also works as a freelance theatre director. Most recently Andrew directed ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ and The Lieutenant of Inismore by Martin McDonagh for Gaiety productions in 2019/2020.
As the head of theatre at Galway Arts Centre Andrew has directed over 70 productions for Galway Youth Theatre. Some highlights include: ‘Frank Pig Says Hello’ and ‘The Adventures of Shay Mouse’ by Pat McCabe, ‘The Crucible’ by Arthur Miller, ‘Portia Coughlan’ by Marina Carr, ‘Lovely Betty’ by Mark O’Halloran, ‘Our Country’s Good’ by Timberlake Vertenbaker, the Irish premieres of ‘Midsummer’, ’Monster In the Hall’ and ‘Yellowmoon’ by David Greig, ‘Autobahn’ by Neil La Bute, ‘Talking To Terrorists’ by Robin Soans, ’Tejas Verdes’ by Fermin Cabal, ‘Country Music’ by Simon Stephens, ’Consensual ‘ by Nina Raine and the world premiere of ‘Teacher’ by Christian O’Reilly
Recent directing credits for Decadent Theatre include: The World premieres of ‘A Thing About December’ by Donal Ryan and ‘A Love Like That’ by Billy Roche. ‘Eden’ by Eugene O’Brien, ‘The Mai‘ by Marina Carr, ‘Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me’ by Frank McGuinness, ‘Pumpgirl‘ by Abbie Spallen, ‘The Weir’ by Conor McPherson, ‘The Pillowman’ by Martin McDonagh, ‘The Dead School’ by Pat McCabe, ‘Vernon God Little’ by Tanya Rhonder, ‘Defender Of The Faith’ by Stuart Carolan, ‘A Skull In Connemara’ by Martin McDonagh (3 Irish Times Nominations), ‘Port Authority’ by Conor McPhearson (for which he was nominated as Best Director at the Irish Times Theatre Awards), ‘Doubt’ by John Patrick Shanley (2 Irish Times Nominations), ‘Faith Healer’ by Brian Friel (Decadent /Townhall Galway), ‘The Seafarer’ by Conor McPhearson, ‘The Cavalcaders’ by Billy Roche (Decadent/ Nomad Theatre Network), the world premieres of ‘Here We Are Again Still’ by Christian O’Reilly and ‘Character’ by Mark Dillon, Country Music by Simon Stephens, Blackbird by David Harrower.
Directing credits for Lyric Theatre Belfast include: Philadelphia Here I Come by Brian Friel, Dockers by Martin Lynch, PumpGirl by Abbie Spallen’ The Pillowman’ By Martin McDonagh and ‘The Weir’by Conor McPherson
Other credits include: Juno And The Paycock by Sean O’Casey (A.R.T Northern Ireland/Cork Opera House), Translation by Brian Friels (Ouroborous Theatre Company), Via Dolorosa by David Hare, (Cuirt Literature Festival), The Lieutenant Of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh (Irish Premiere, Cork Opera House/Millenium Theatre Derry/Townhall Theatre Galway), Translations (Townhall Galway).
Dani Gill is a writer, maker, and producer, based in the west of Ireland. Dani served as Director of Cúirt International Festival of Literature (2010-2016), Ennis Book Club Festival (2020-2022) and has held production and creative roles in theatre, film, circus and public art. Dani is the Performing Arts Curator for the Bealtaine Festival, Director of the site specific landscape art initiative The Lighthouse Project, and Co-Director of Match in the Dark. She holds a Diploma in Community Development and Youth Work. Her LGBTQ+ advocacy project Raise Your Spear, (2024-2025) leads groups to make spears in workshops focused on identity and allyship. Installations of the spears will be exhibited in 2025 with partner venues and festivals.
Her written work includes poetry collections After Love (2017, Salmon Poetry) and Lessons in Kindness (2023, Salmon Poetry). After Love was made into a short film and a full stage show that premiered at Galway International Arts Festival in 2021. Dani returns to Decadent Theatre Company this year as Producer having previously worked with the company in consultancy and production roles.
Carl was a founding member of Decadent and trained at Academy of Sound in Dublin. He has worked on over one hundred theatre productions, with venues and companies including The Abbey, The Gaiety, ANU Productions, The Lyric Theatre Belfast, Rough Magic, HOME Manchester, Fishamble, Prime Cut, Theatre Lovett, HotForTheatre, Guna Nua, Loose Canon, Peer to Peer, Siren, Broken Crow, Randolf SD and Theatre Makers. He has been nominated three times for the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Sound Design. He also composes music and sound design for TV and video games. Game titles include Curious George, Curious about Shapes and Colors, Jelly Jumble, Too Many Teddies, Dino Dog and Leonardo and His Cat. TV credits include sound design for 16 letters (Independent Pictures/RTE) and SFX editing and foley recording for Centenary (RTE).
Sara is a Tunisian-American designer who holds a degree in film, with a concentration on Costume & Production Design from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA. After working in Japan for 5 years with the Tokyo International Theatre Company costuming multiple shows such Rocky Horror Picture Show, A Flea in Her Ear, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Night Must Fall, Macbeth, and The Diary of Anne Frank, she moved to Ireland in 2017.
To date, Sara has over 25 credits to her name in Irish film, TV, advertising and theatre. As well as working on feature films (Here Are The Young Men, There You’ll Find Me) and television shows (Rig 45) she has also worked with several award-winning short films, including Coco Dreams In Blue (FilmBase), and The Secret Box (KTC). In theatre, most recently she designed A Love Like That (Decadent) and She Kills Monsters and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (No Drama Theatre).
Ger has worked with Decadent Productions for over 15 years as a scenic artist. He also creates sets and visual artworks for many diverse theatre and film productions in Ireland and internationally.
He is an established visual artist, exhibiting regularly, with paintings in numerous public and private Collections in Ireland, Europe and U.S.A. Recent art project credits include: Still Point solo exhibition, Green Fuze Gallery, Westport, Mayo; Stations of the Cross commission, Knock Basilica, Mayo; G.I.A.F / Enda Walsh, Rooms project, Galway & New York; European Capital of Culture/Liverpool Lantern Co; Spectacle, Aarhus, Denmark; R.H.A. Annual Exhibition, Dublin, paintings.
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Brian has worked on building sets with Decadent Theatre for ten years. In that time he has also being the tour carpenter on over 15 national tours.
Set builds include: The Cavalcaders (Decadent/Nomad Network), Doubt (Decadent), Faith Healer (Decadent /Townhall Galway), The Seafarer (Irish Tour Decadent/ Nomad Network), Here We Are Again Still (World Premiere & Irish Tour), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Irish Tour), Tejas Verde, Lovers, At the Black Pigs Dyke, Decadent productions of The Dead School, Vernon God Little, Defender of the Faith and Lonesome West and Philadelphia, Here I Come! for Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
Recent builds include: A Love LIke That by Billy Roche, A Skull in Connemara and The Pillowman by Martin MacDonagh and The Weir by Conor MacPherson (Decadent/ Pavilion/ Everyman/ Galway Townhall).
Brendan Foreman has many years experience designing print and digital for leading Irish agencies and the cultural sector. He was resident graphic designer with the Abbey Theatre for 8 years and a director of Graphiconies – a design studio specialising in the cultural and social sectors – for 10 years. Brendan is also involved with music promotion and production, having programmed the Guinness Temple Bar Blues Festival and managed music tours in Ireland and the UK. He designs and publishes an occasional music fanzine – Blue Navigator – and releases albums on its off-shoot record label. In 2021 he produced ‘Snockument’, a limited edition vinyl LP tribute to American folk artist Michael Hurley, featuring Yo La Tengo, Calexico, Cat Power and others. www.brendanforeman.com
