Founded in late 2023 by key stakeholders in the arts in Cork City, Cork Theatre Collective (CTC) represents a shared vision to support independent artists in Cork. CTC offers a range of funded residencies and peer support to artists and the opportunity to share and interrogate their work with a growing community.

Through funded residencies in the Theatre Development Centre at Triskel Arts Centre, workshops, masterclasses and career development opportunities, CTC’s mission is to provide a sustainable environment for artists at all career stages to create theatre.

Along with partner organisations, Once Off Productions, Cork Midsummer Festival, The Cork Arts Theatre, Graffiti Theatre, The Everyman and Cork Opera House, CTC seeks to create real pathways to production on every available stage in the county of Cork.

Zoe Ní Riordáin: Creative Director

Zoe is an award-winning theatre, film, and music maker from Dublin. She is co-artistic director of One Two One Two, a multi-disciplinary production company founded in 2018 with her sister Maud Lee. Zoe was selected for a Clore Fellowship in 2022, a tailored leadership programme in the UK. She makes experimental work that brings her practice as a musician and songwriter into a theatrical context. Tá cuid dá cleachtadh déanta trí Ghaeilge. One Two One Two has made three award-winning films in Irish, their latest Éist liom (listen to me) will screen at Fastnet Film Festival in Schull on May 22nd. Since 2022, Zoe has collaborated with young people, directing ‘Horse Ape Bird’ a youth opera for Irish National Opera by Carys Coburn and David Coonan, and Kabin Studio’s ‘Sound of The Northside’ a co-production with INO at the Everyman Theatre July 2024. One Two One Two wrote the Kabin Crew Christmas Special for RTÉ (broadcast on Christmas Eve 2024, Best Entertainment Award at Royal Television Society).

Charlotte Wilson: Administrator

Charlotte Wilson has extensive experience in stage management. Fulfilling roles of company manager to prop sourcer, and all in-between. Working for the last 10 years on London’s West End, she has worked on a variety of theatre shows- musicals, plays, children theatre, intricate puppetry productions to large scale immersive events. Some shows include (Drifters Girl- Garrick Theatre, Touching the Void- Duke of Yorks & Bristol Old Vic, The Grinning Man- Trafalgar Studios, Falsettos- @TheOtherPalace Tartuffe- Theatre Royal Haymarket, Alice’s Adventures Underground- Waterloo Vaults). Having relocated in 2023 to Cork City, she is delighted to be working with the CTC towards ensuring creativity is fostered in County Cork.

Laura Murphy: Technical Manager

After graduating from University College Cork with her degree in Drama and Theatre Studies, Laura worked as a technician and tutor in Granary Theatre in University College Cork. She later joined Draíocht, Blanchardstown as Technical Stage Manager. She is now a freelance stage manager and technician working in youth arts, theatre, opera and dance with credits including Levin&Levin for BrokenCrow, Violet Gibson with Noggin Theatre, Tradoodle Festival and Wunderground for Ceol Connected, Alice and the Wolf, Swansong and Elves and the Shoemakers for Barnstorm, Horse, Ape, Bird and Tosca for Irish National Opera, SILENT, Outrage and The Humours of Bandon for Fishamble, Making Waves for Jess Rowell Dance, Grey Matterand Polar Bear and Penguin by Paul Curley. Assistant stage manager credits include Heaven by Fishamble and The Piece With the Drums by Cois Céim Dance Theatre.

Funded by Arts Council Ireland and Cork City Council.

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