2023 Axis Assemble Artists

  • Thomas Collins

    Thomas Collins is an actor based In Dublin. He first started acting at the age of 14 when he joined Roundabout Youth Theatre. Thomas has performed in various plays in Dublin Fringe Festival, which were nominated for the Spirit of the Fringe Award. Thomas has had roles in short films, feature films, and TV: ‘Thank You Come Again’ (2018), RTE's Love/Hate (2014). He performed in ‘Salo Redubbed’ at the Abbey Theatre’s Peacock Stage as part of The Dublin Theatre Festival. His latest role is the role of Garda Boyle a new Irish/New Zealand TV series

  • Colette Cullen

    Colette Cullen’s play WHEN RACHEL MET FIONA has just finished a critically-acclaimed run at The New Theatre. Its world premiere was at The Space, London in 2021. Colette’s audio play FINGERS CROSSED will drop on Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Chicago’s ‘Half Hour Audio Hour’ on May 14th. She is directing an Irish production for NearFM in 2023

  • Gráinne Curistan

    A Graduate of TCD MPhil in Theatre and Performance, Gráinne has been making theatre for over a decade. She founded and ran At Large Theatre Company from 2010 -2020, producing, directing and performing in many shows and bringing 4 plays to the Edfringe during that time.

  • Wren Dennehy

    Wren Dennehy is an actor, writer and queer performer from Kildare. They are interested in making inter-disciplinary work that explores the modern queer experience. Their performance credits include work with Malaprop, the Abbey Theatre, RTÉ as well as producing and hosting their own events.

  • Peter Dunne

    Peter Dunne is an award-winning writer, playwright, producer, creator of audio dramas, podcasts and unusual experiences. His plays have been staged at the Abbey Theatre, Project Arts Centre, Bewleys Café Theatre, Dublin Castle and Smock Alley Theatre. He won a New York Radio Drama Award and an Irish Podcast Award for his horror anthology Petrified.

  • Rowan Finken

    Rowan Finken is originally from West Cork and is a graduate of the Lir Academy, Trinity College, 2020. Acting credits include; Staging The Treaty, dir Louise Lowe (ANU), The Tempest, dir Lynne Parker (Rough Magic), The Lonesome West and Under Milk Wood, dir Geoff Gould (Blood in the Alley Productions)

  • Róisín García-Sacristán

    Róisín García-Sacristán is an Irish-Spanish theatre maker from Dublin. She is currently studying Drama & Theatre at Trinity College Dublin. Recent credits include playing Don Andrea in “The Spanish Tragedy” (Dublin Youth Theatre 2022) co-writing and stage managing “Anatomy of a Bad Night” (Dublin Youth Theatre 2022) as well as lighting design for “Irish Folly” (DU Players 2022) and “Dead Man’s Sleepover” (DU Players 2023). Róisín is very excited to begin creating her own work through Irish. Is amharclannóir Éireannach-Spáinneach ó Baile Athá Cliath í Róisín García-Sacristán. Faoi láthair tá sí ag déanamh staidéir ar an dramaíocht i gColáiste na Tríonóide Baile Átha Cliath. Tá sí ag súil go mór tosú ag cruthú a cuid obair féin trí mean na Gaeilge.

  • Niamh Geran

    Niamh is a poet, spoken word artist, clown, playwright and performer. In her work she explores shadow and light, in culture and community, connecting with the visceral complexities of humanity, like coalescing with haphazard tiles on a disco ball, absorbing, refracting and reflecting light and dark. Niamh enjoys live performance and is interested in a multitude of media, experimenting with spoken word, recorded text, sound, movement and moving and still imagery.

  • Honey & Lemon

    Honey & Lemon are multidisciplinary entertainers who experiment with dance, voice & film to blur the boundaries of contemporary dance. Founded as an artistic partnership in 2020 by artists Millie Daniel-Dempsey & Amy Robyn Lyster, Honey & Lemon is built on a decade of friendship & began as a desire to centre themselves & other women artists on the contemporary dance stage

  • Mai Ishikawa

    Mai Ishikawa is a US-born Japanese theatre translator and theatre maker based in Dublin. She has translated “Necessary Targets” by Eve Ensler, “Cyprus Avenue” by David Ireland, “Dublin by Lamplight” by Michael West, “Once Upon a Bridge” by Sonya Kelly, among other plays. She is currently writing her own play about motherhood and non-motherhood.

  • Brona Jackson

    Derry born dance artist Brona Jackson, has a specialism in working with children and young people across theatre, education and community settings. Brona’s passion for child-led, inclusive arts has led her to creating innovative work, in alternative spaces, with and for children who have least access including Wild Ones(2021) and Orbits(2022)

  • Signe Lury

    Signe Lury is a theatre- and occasional film-maker with a particular interest in environmentally conscious practice. She is the artistic director of Gift Horse Theatre and works as a writer, director, producer, and performer. She strives to make work that is collaborative, inclusive, and subversive.

  • Aoibheann McCaul

    Aoibheann McCaul is a Actor, Writer and Theatre Maker holding a BA Hons. in Drama and Theatre Studies (Trinity). As an actor she is best known for her on screen roles as Caoimhe Dillon (Fair City) and Ciara (Hardy Bucks), and has performed in a wide variety of theatre roles.

  • Yasmin Mello

    Yasmin Mello is a Brazilian Dublin-based dancer, choreographer and director creating interdisciplinary work on migration, myth and memory. She has a BA in Dance with Faculdade Angel Vianna (BR) and completed a MPhil in Theatre and Performance with TCD (IRE) and has worked with countless Brazilian based and Irish artists alike.

  • Alan Monnelly

    Alan Monnelly is a writer who is interested in connecting with people with his writing. He has written health related articles, fiction, plays, poetry and music writing and looks forward to the collaborative element of working with the axis and meeting like-minded people, making progress and reaching his potential.

  • Tom Moran

    Tom is an actor-writer whose latest play, Tom Moran is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar, won the Fishamble New Writing Award at Dublin Fringe. Tom is currently adapting the play for TV with Deadpan Pictures before bringing the play to the Edinburgh Fringe where it plays the Pleasance Courtyard.

  • Caoilfhionn Murphy Ní Mhaolchalain

    Caoilfhionn is a scriptwriter and recent MA graduate from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She has written and directed her own play which was performed at UCD's Dramsoc Theatre, and has since written scripts for both stage and screen.

  • Patrick O'Sullivan

    Patrick O’Sullivan is a graduate of the Mentorship Programme for Playwrights (Fishamble: The New Play Comapny / Pavilion Theatre). Since his work debuted in Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland, his plays have been performed throughout Ireland and in the UK. Patrick is also an award-winning songwriter (Hot Press Magazine).

  • Fabiano Roggio

    Fabiano Roggio is a Italian native, professionally trained at Accademia d’Arte Drammatica Cassiopea. Fabiano’s recent theatre work includes BROS by Romeo Castellucci for DTF22, JOYCE'S WOMEN at the Abbey Theatre, Theatre Lovett’s interactive performance “A FOX FEST FOR ALL THE FAMILY”. Fabiano’s recent film credits include: ‘Surrender Your Horns’ premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh.

  • Biaina Ryan

    Biaina Ryan is an actor and writer from Co. Kildare, Ireland. She is a 2021 graduate of the Gaiety School of Acting. The first twenty minutes of her debut play ANGIE’S EASY was staged earlier this year as part of Scene + Heard Festival of New Work.

  • Róisín Whelan

    Róisín Whelan is an Irish choreographer and dance artist. She is creating highly physical and technically demanding work with strong narratives that are accessible to all regardless of their age, gender, or socio-economic background. Recent choreographic work includes The Glasshouse, commissioned by Ballet Ireland; The Parting Glass commissioned by The University of Malta, and Man Down funded by The Arts Council Project Award 2022. Róisín is the recipient of the inaugural Propel Award, a three-year-long artist development and mentorship programme funded by the Strollers Network.

  • Danae Wollen & Samuel Arnold Keane

    Danae Wollen is a contemporary circus performer, with specialisations in floor acrobatics, equestrian theatre and aerial. Samuel Arnold Keane is a forager, an illustrator, a musician. Together their collaborations seek to mix circus with live music, storytelling through movement, sculpture as a backdrop to theatre, making work that inspires and captures the imagination of all ages.