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Caption: Jim Culleton

Photographer: Pat Redmond

Surname

Culleton

First Name(s)

Jim

Agent

The Lisa Richards Agency

Website

http://www.fishamble.com

Job Type

Director

Artistic Director of Fishamble: The New Play Company and freelance theatre director.

Jim Culleton is the Artistic Director of Fishamble: The New Play Company for which he recently directed Tiny Plays for Ireland by 25 writers, Silent by Pat Kinevane (over 30 Irish venues, European and Australian tour, New York, Los Angeles, winner of Fringe First, Herald Angel and Argus Angel awards), the multi award-winning The Pride of Parnell Street by Sebastian Barry (London, New Haven, Paris, Wiesbaden, New York and Irish tour), Turning Point with Arts & Disability Ireland (Dublin and Washington DC), the multi award-winning Noah and the Tower Flower by Sean McLoughlin (Dublin, Bulgaria, Romania and New York), and Forgotten by Pat Kinevane (on tour to over 40 Irish venues, 8 European countries, New York, Boston, Washington DC and Los Angeles).

He has directed for the Abbey Theatre, most recently Bookworms by Bernard Farrell, Standing up the Script in collaboration with Fighting Words, Yeats in his own Words (Dublin, Sligo and Boston), and Fishamble’s productions of The Music of Ghost Light by Joseph O’Connor on the Abbey stage and Silent on the Peacock stage. He has also directed for Noel Pearson at the Gaiety, 7:84 (Scotland), Project Arts Centre, Amharclann de hIde, Amnesty International, Tinderbox, The Passion Machine, The Ark, Second Age, RTE Radio 1, The Belgrade, Semper Fi, TNL Canada, Scotland’s Ensemble @ Dundee Rep, Draíocht, Barnstorm, Roundabout, TCD School of Drama, the Irish Council for Bioethics, Origin (New York), Frontline Defenders and RTE lyric fm.

Current projects for Fishamble include a range of Training, Development and Mentoring schemes. Jim has taught for NYU and Notre Dame Universities, is Adjunct Lecturer in the TCD School of Drama, teaches a directing module for NUIM/GSA, and in UCD as part of Fishamble’s Theatre Company-in-Association status there.

Professional Interests/Special Skills

Jim also edits and writes for theatre books, as well as teaching acting students and working as a communications consultant to the Public and Private sector.

He has taught and lectured for a number of universities and colleges, including: Department of Drama & Theatre Studies Trinity College Dublin; Department of Psychology Trinity College Dublin; University College Dublin; Gerhard Mercator Universitat Duisburg; Gaiety School of Acting; National College of Ireland. He is an External Examiner for the Conservatory of Music and Drama, DIT.

Jim has facilitated theatre-based training courses and directed events for many organisations, including University College Cork, The Revenue Commissioners, Voluntary Health Insurance, Accenture, The Department of Public Enterprise, The Geological Survey of Ireland, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Amersham Health, ACC Bank, Ulster Bank, The Courts Service, Allianz, Ulster Bank and Invesco.

Jim co-edited Contemporary Irish Monologues and edited Fishamble/Pigsback: First Plays, both for New Island Books. He has contributed interviews and articles to books for Carysfort Press, NAYD and Ubu (Paris) and edited Voice Our Concern for Amnesty International.

Training/Qualifications

1994 - MA in Drama & Theatre Studies from Trinity College, Dublin

1990 - BA in Drama & English from Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a first-class honour in Drama & Theatre Studies

Awards

Jim's productions have won or been nominated for awards, including Irish Times Theatre Awards, Entertainment & Media Awards, MAMCA Awards, In Dublin Theatre Awards, TMA Awards, Allianz/Business to Arts Awards, Argus Angel Awards, Herald Angel Awards and Fringe First Awards.

He has discovered and directed a number of plays by first-time writers which have won the BBC/Stewart Parker Trust Award.

At the start of his career, Jim was the recipient of three Arts Council bursaries to assistant-direct at the Abbey and with Jonathan Miller at the Gate and Coliseum.

Member of Company

Fishamble: The New Play Company

Role in Company

Artistic Director

Other Information

Full driver's licence

Last Modified

10 Jan 2013