Limerick Gathering | Cruinniú Luimnigh

Julie is a Theatre Director and Producer. She holds a BA and an MA in Drama & Theatre Studies from UCC and was the 2022/23 Jerome Hynes Clore Leadership Fellow. Current projects include the redevelopment of Evening Train, a musical by Mick Flannery.

Directing credits include: Found by Aideen Wylde (BrokenCrow/Cork Midsummer Festival), The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh (The Everyman), Bluetooth by Rachel Thornton (The Everyman), Autumn Royal by Kevin Barry (The Everyman, associate director for remount), Dancing At Lughnasa by Brian Friel (The Everyman), The Factory Girls by Frank McGuinness (The Everyman), The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig (The Everyman), Lovers by Brian Friel (The Everyman), Mantle by Ronan FitzGibbon (BrokenCrow).

Producing credits include the world premiere of Mick Flannery’s Evening Train musical (2019), the world premiere of Asking for It by Louise O’Neill (Landmark Productions and The Everyman, 2018), the world premiere of Autumn Royal by Kevin Barry (The Everyman, 2017) and the Irish premiere of Futureproof by Lynda Radley (The Everyman, 2017), and The Scarlet Letter, devised by Conflicted Theatre Company after Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013).

She was Artistic Director/CEO at Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray from 2020 – 2024 and Artistic Director of The Everyman, Cork from 2014 to 2020. She has a professional background in performance (acting and singing) and worked as an actor, director & producer with numerous Irish arts organisations and companies, including Painted Bird, Conflicted, BrokenCrow, Kinsale Arts Week, Cork Midsummer Festival, Hammergrin, Corcadorca, Meridian, Dublin Theatre Festival, Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, The Performance Corporation, Gare St. Lazare, Once Off Productions, Landmark Productions, and Siren Productions. Most recently, Julie completed MAKE an artist development programme presented by Cork Midsummer, Dublin Fringe Festival and Project Arts Centre.

Julie joined the board of Graffiti Theatre Company in September 2017 and is the current chair. She sits on the Irish Playography Panel at Irish Theatre Institute and served on the board of Theatre Forum from 2016 to 2022, taking on the role of Chair in the final three years of her term.

Gill McNamara is a company stage manager, producer, and artistic programmer. She specialises in stage management, company management, production coordination, and artistic curatorship. She holds a BA in Contemporary and Applied Theatre Studies from Mary Immaculate College.

Gill’s most recent productions include company stage management for Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party (Lime Tree Theatre); stage management for The Summer I Robbed a Bank (The Everyman); The Bus (Barnstorm); Gatman (The Everyman and Dublin Fringe Festival); and Found (BrokenCrow and The Everyman, in association with Cork Midsummer Festival and Clonmel Junction Arts Festival).

Other credits include stage management and creative collaboration for The Crow’s Way (Moonfish Theatre / Dublin Theatre Festival / Baboró International Arts Festival for Children); company stage management for Red Army (Lime Tree Theatre); and stage management for Pucked (Up All Night / Cathal Ryan).

Beyond production work, Gill is the current Co Artistic Programme Coordinator for The Gathering with the Lime Tree Theatre, and a producer with Moonfish Theatre, overseeing the development of new work such as Why The Moon Travels. She is passionate about fostering collaborative and inclusive creative spaces and supporting the next generation of performing arts audiences and artists. She hopes you enjoy the Artistic Programme!

Remember those viral hits like “Any Oaks?” and “Leave Molly Malone alone”? The Wild Geeze are the queens of comedy cabaret, with gems like “The Hoes of Tralee.” If you crave wild Irish humor, enchanting harmonies, and a hint of rebellion against the agricultural patriarchy, The Wild Geeze are your ticket. Join farmer comedian Breda Larkin and the hilarious burlesque chanteuse Miss Lavelle for a chaotically charming cabaret experience that’s anything but ordinary.

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Lumen Street Theatre are Martin Shannon and Giordana Giache. Lumen works with communities and aims to revitalize the arts in local communities by engaging collectively to create street theatre through engagement programs, workshops and community participation to present scenes and performances that are visually spectacular, distinctive and inspiring.

With years of experience initiating programmes in schools and communities, Lumen are well-placed to deliver a high standard of training and professional engagement. Putting an emphasis on the practical as well as the theoretical, Lumen currently delivers a programme of work that gets immediate and exciting results from communities. Lumen provide workshops in schools; youth clubs, seasonal camps and within communities; these workshops facilitate making and creative thinking through arts, crafts, poetry, music, story and performance. Lumen members have created several Murals throughout the mid -west and pride themselves on delivering the spectacular.

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Celebrate Limerick’s roaring independent music scene with a duo who, with their new label SASP, are at the heart of Limericks music scene, and have been special guests to the likes of Les Savy Fav, King Kong Company, Bush Tetras, and Le Boom.

Get ready to dance at a live show that is both exciting and cathartic, using visuals created by local artists and music that “embodies the essence of freedom and connection.