Make 2025 Participants

Francisco Frazão is the artistic director of Teatro do Bairro Alto, a city theatre in Lisbon devoted to experimental, emerging and international work. TBA has so far presented pieces by Gob Squad, Tim Crouch, Tania El Khoury, Alessandro Sciarroni, nora chipaumire, Lucy McCormick, Rimini Protokoll, Back to Back Theatre, Brokentalkers, Faye Driscoll, or Sh!t Theatre, while also co-producing a host of local artists.

From 2004 to 2017 Francisco was theatre programmer at arts centre Culturgest. He has worked as dramaturg (namely for theatre company Artistas Unidos) and translated works by Beckett, Pinter, Howard Barker, Tim Crouch, Annie Baker, Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells, Dennis Kelly, Zinnie Harris, and Lola Arias. He has also written and taught classes and seminars on theatre, film and literature.

He was one of the mentors for MAKE 2017 & 2024.

Sonya Lindfors is a Cameroonian – Finnish award-winning choreographer and artistic director that also works with facilitating, community organising and education. In 2013 she received a MA in choreography from the University of the Arts Helsinki.

She is the founding member and Artistic Director of UrbanApa, an inter-disciplinary and counter hegemonic arts community that offers a platform for new discourses and feminist art practices. UrbanApa facilitates workshops, festivals, labs, mentoring and publications among other things.
Lindfors makes her own and collaborative works such as performances, curated programs and performative actions. Her performance works have been shown and supported by Beursschouwburg, Kampnagel, Spring Utrecht, CODA – festival, Black Box Theater Oslo, Zodiak – Centre for New Dance among others. She is a member of Miracle Workers Collective that represented Finland at the 58th Venice Biennale.

Lindfors’s recent works One Drop& common moves (2023), We Should All Be Dreaming, camouflage (2021), Soft Variations Online (2020) centralise questions around Blackness and Black body politics, representation and power structures, speculative futurieties and decolonial dreaming practices. On a larger scale Lindfors’s time is divided between her own artistic work , educational work and working as the artistic director of UrbanApa. In all her positions she pursues creating and facilitating anti-racist and feminist platforms, where a festival, a performance, a publication or a workshop can operate as the site of empowerment, decolonial speculative practices and radical collective dreaming.
Lindfors has been awarded with several prizes, the latest of which being the State Prize for Public Information in 2022 and the international Live art Anti Prize 2018. During the season 2017 – 2018 Lindfors was the house choreographer for Zodiak – center for new dance.More info:

www.sonyalindfors.com

www.urbanapa.fi

Photo Credit: Tuukka Ervasti

Ragnheiður Skúladóttir is a creative producer. She was born and raised in Reykjavík. She finished her BA in theatre and multimedia at the University of Iowa in 1991 and her MFA at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 1996. Following her studies she moved to New York City where she  lived and worked as a performer, performance maker, coach and instructor. In 2000, following a 13 year stint in the U.S, she moved back to Reykjavík  after being offered the position of  Dean of Department of Performing Arts at then newly founded Iceland University of the Arts. Ragnheiður worked at the Academy until 2011, initiating new programs in contemporary performance practices and contemporary dance. In 2008 she co-founded the LÓKAL International Theatre Festival, an annual event that presents new local and international work in the field of theatre and performance. She was artistic director of the Akureyri City Theatre from 2012 to 2015 and manager of Iceland Dance Company 2016-2019. Ragnheiður was the artistic director and CEO of Festspillene i Nord-Norge from 2019 – 2025.

Ragnheiður has years of experience as teacher and mentor (at IAA, University of Syracuse, Academy for Scenekunst in Fredrikstad, MAKE Ireland, NB8 Nordic Circle Mentoring Program, Future Leaders in the Performing Arts). She has also worked with various artists/groups as a producer and as a critical friend (Kviss búmm bang, Dance for Me, Shalala, Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir)

Jo Bannon is an artist working in performance, choreography and film. Her practice is concerned with how our specific bodies, identities and sensory perceptions impact how we experience the world around us, and how this sensory experience can or cannot be conveyed. Her work is led by form and so manifests in various mediums including intimate encounters designed for single or small audiences, staged performance, dance, film and installation.
Jo has presented work in the UK, Europe, South America, USA, China, South Korea and Australia. She also works as a dramaturg and writer and is a member of artist collective Interval.

Eoghan Carrick is an artist based in Dublin, Ireland. He works primarily as a director in theatre.

Recent directing credits: KONSTANTIN (COBA: Cian O’Brien Arts+Once Off Productions/Dublin Theatre Festival, 2025), Theatre for One (Landmark Productions/Cork Midsummer Festival, 2019-25), The Misanthrope (The Lir, 2025), Guest Host Stranger Ghost (Once Off Productions/Dublin Theatre Festival, 2024), Haus of Fash Hun (FemmeBizarre/Dublin Fringe Festival, 2023), Songs from the Soil (The Ark Theatre, 2023), Good. Orderly. Direction. (Bitter Like a Lemon/Dublin Theatre Festival, 2022), Rescue Annie (Once Off Productions/Dublin Fringe Festival, 2021), Bodies of Water (Corn Exchange/Dublin Fringe Festival, 2019), INFINITY (Mermaid Arts Centre/Dublin Fringe Festival, 2018), Nora (Corn Exchange/Dublin Theatre Festival, 2017). He was on the NCFA Steering Committee (2016-2022) and Chair of Praxis Artist Union of Ireland (2023-2025).

He is an Adjunct Teaching Fellow in TCD’s School of Creative Arts and the Rough Magic Fellow in TCD’s Long Room Hub.

Visit: www.eoghancarrick.com

Carys D. Coburn’s BÁN was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, and subsequently produced by the Abbey Theatre.

They were the winner of the Verity Bargate Award 2017 for Citysong – co-produced by Soho Theatre, the Abbey Theatre, and Galway International Arts Festival.

Other plays include Absent The Wrong (Best Production at Dublin Fringe 2022) and HOTHOUSE (Best Production at Dublin Fringe 2023). One of the founders of MALAPROP, their work together won acclaim for its distinctive blend of nerdiness and tenderness.

Work with young people is a major strand of their practice, and their interdisciplinary practice spans opera libretti (Elsewhere, Horse Ape Bird) and queer cabaret extravaganzas (THISISPOPBABY’s WAKE).

Sinéad Cormack is a Carlow-based theatre maker, performer, designer.

She collaborates with other artists to make theatre that explores how we perceive ourselves and our relationship to the outside world.
She played the part of Mum/Puppeteer in Pegasus the Clothes Horse by Alison Martin at the National Opera House 2024.
Sinéad has created works including The Shed at the Carlow Arts Festival 2022; An Murúch (a work in progress) at the George Bernard Shaw Theatre as part of the Carlow Arts Festival 2019; One in association with Carlow Arts Festival 2015; In/side the Box which premiered at the Carlow Arts Festival 2012 and went on to tour in Ireland and Canada; RUN FOR YOUR LIFE premiered in Aberystwyth Wales 2011 and went to tour Canada.

Design works includes Lighting for Treasure Island and A Night at the Movies by Slapdash; Set design for Couples + Pairs by Blue Heart Theatre.

Jane Deasy is a composer and performer of experimental music. She is currently a Leverhulme PhD Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield as part of the Amplification Project where her research is centred on developing an applied theory of Sonic Dramaturgy through her writing and performance practice.

Her performance work is a feminist study of gesture and cybernetics between bodies and voices. At the heart of her work is a dedication to focused, almost investigative listening, to a type of sonic excavation which peels back the layers of the familiar and unearths something previously inaudible, exposing hidden resonances and unexpected depths.

She has premiered two original works for stage at Dublin Fringe Festival winning the award for Best Design in 2022 and has presented work at Cork Midsummer Festival, Open Ear, New Music Dublin, and Alternating Current. She has released three critically acclaimed tapes, Mouth Of The Sound (2022) and Notes From The Bath (2020), on the Irish label Fort Evil Fruit, as well as the self-released EP, Thawing (2021).

A release of her show Opening Night is forthcoming and a new stage work for four voices will premiere in 2026.

www.janedeasy.org 

Tadhg Kinsella is a queer sound artist exploring the intersections of sound, technology, and urban experience. Working across installation, composition, and experimental performance, they investigate how listening can reveal hidden layers of social and spatial dynamics within architectural landscapes.

Kinsella’s practice often incorporates custom-built electronics, field recordings, and sensor-based systems to create responsive sonic environments that blur the boundaries between performer, audience, and space.

Their work has been showcased in theatres, concert halls and galleries including; IMMA, Project Arts Centre, Fylkingen (Stockholm) and Culterim Gallery (Berlin). Tadhg has been supported and awarded from various bodies such as the Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council and Culture Ireland.

Engaging with questions of accessibility, community, and the politics of noise. Through participatory and site-specific approaches, they seek to foster new modes of collective listening, physical sound expression and creative engagement with everyday environments.

Photo: Cian Copeland

Dylan McGloin is an Irish theatre artist and performance designer whose practice centres on Theatre of Heaven, a devising method that begins with poetry as source material, allowing performers to co-create visual and physical worlds through improvisation. His work explores the connection between body, space, and visual storytelling, merging dance, design, and text in interdisciplinary performance.

Based between Ireland and Europe, Dylan has held residencies with the Abbey Theatre (2023), Mermaid Arts Centre (2023), and Druid Theatre (2024), and represented Ireland at the Prague Quadrennial (2023). Recent projects include The Line Society, a dance-theatre work inspired by a real train journey supported by the Arts Council of Ireland’s Agility Award (2025), and Broken Clay, exploring ritual, form, and the body, showcased at Cairde Arts Festival (2025).

In 2025, he made his international directing debut with Berlin-based 1781 Collective on Alexander Scriabin’s Mysterium and Rite of Spring, reimagining the harmony between dance and clas

Jennie Moran is a visual artist whose work explores hospitality as a creative and connective philosophy. Blending sculpture, food and performance, she founded Luncheonette, an art/hospitality project at National College of Art and Design in 2013.

She lectures widely, mentors in holistic hospitality and curates discursive events. She was recently awarded a scholarship at the Getty Research Institute. Jennie is the author of “How to Soften Corners” and was named Best Emerging Voice at the Irish Food Writing Awards is featured in the Irish Independent’s ‘Ones to Watch’ for 2025.

Photo: Sabrina Morreale

Grace Morgan is a theatre and opera maker working across Ireland and internationally. She is Co-Artistic Director of tasteinyourmouth and Studio Director at Irish National Opera.

Recent directing credits include Music, Magic and Mischief (Irish National Opera), The 24hr Plays 2025 (Abbey Theatre), Hysterically Shopping! with Glasshouse Ensemble (Dublin Theatre Festival 2024), Theatre for One (Landmark/Octopus Theatricals, Cork Midsummer Festival), and Puccini’s Suor Angelica (Wexford Festival Opera 2023).

Her award-winning You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) toured internationally—from Edinburgh Fringe to Gothenburg and Dublin Fringe—earning a Best Production nomination and the First Fortnight Award. Other projects include Narcissus (Dublin Fringe, The Chiswick Playhouse), The Sudden (Pan Pan, Dublin Dance Festival), and Drop (Druid Debuts, Galway International Arts Festival).

Formerly Associate Artistic Director at Pan Pan Theatre, Grace has collaborated with companies such as Dead Centre and OneTwoOneTwo, touring to Lincoln Center, Centquatre-Paris, FFT Düsseldorf, NYU Skirball, and BAM New York.

Photo: Owen Clarke

Laoise Murray is a Dublin-based performer and theatre-maker. She is a co-director of tasteinyourmouth. Laoise makes work that is original, irreverent, and visually striking.

Her recent theatre credits as a maker/performer include: Hysterically Shopping!to some sort of end…(work-in-progress at Smock Alley and Project Arts Centre), You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) (Edinburgh Fringe 2024, Gothenburg Fringe 2024, Dublin Fringe Festival 2023),  It Is Good We Are Dreaming (The New Theatre, 2022),  After Your Ass (work-in-progress supported by Arts Council Ireland, Yamamori Tengu 2022), Marmalade Row (The New Theatre, 2021), Jellyfish (The New Theatre, 2021), Oh, Elle! (as part of Corcadorca’s TDC Online Residency 2021), A Woman Under A Roof (Smock Allies: Scene and Heard 2020), b(l)oom (The New Theatre).

Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng 吳彩萍 (they/she) is a Hong Kong-Irish writer, director and designer.

Ping is a Linbury Prizewinner who has designed across Ireland, the UK and Singapore. They recently set designed Boyfriends by Ultan Pringle, currently on national tour. Ping’s most recent personal piece, WINDOW A WORLD, was co-produced by Dublin Theatre Festival and BUDA Belgium as part of the EU’s Be SpectACTive! project.

Ping is primarily inspired by their heritage while examining language, colonialism and queerness. This is combined with humour, surrealism and innovative design.

Lianne O’Hara is a playwright and poet.

Her play Baby won the 2024 Little Gem Award and had a three-week run at Bewley’s Café Theatre this spring. Her debut Fluff had a sell out run at Dublin Fringe.

The Patients All Seemed Happy (2025) ‘a powerful evocation of forgotten voices from Grangegorman asylum’ is published by Writing Ireland | New Dublin Press. Other writing has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, gorse, Winter Papers, The Rialto, Arc Poetry Magazine, The London Magazine, Abridged, Banshee, and elsewhere.

Lianne was a 2025 participant of Irish Theatre Institute’s Six in the Attic and Dublin Theatre Festival’s The Next Stage. In 2024 she received the Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry, and a Theatre Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland to develop her practice in co-creating theatre.

Liam Rees is a theatre maker focused on new writing and devised theatre. His work is eclectic, nomadic, and driven by an interest in liveness, formal playfulness, and the audience’s role in bringing a theatrical event to life.

He is an Associate Artist with Dead Centre and has previously worked in Belgium with BRONKS Theater for Young Audiences, Milo Rau, and Ontroerend Goed.

He’s directed new writing at A Play, A Pie, & A Pint, Theatre503 and the Edinburgh Fringe. His debut, The Enlightened was commissioned by HOME before playing at the Junges Ensemble Stuttgart. His latest creation, The Land That Never Was, is a solo show about a real-life conman who made up a country that played at Scene+Heard before touring Scotland.

He was recently selected for TalentLAB in Luxembourg and he is supported by Immersive Arts and the Arts Council’s Digital Arts Mentoring programme to develop new projects.

Moss Russell is a multi-disciplinary performance artist from Cork. Inspired by community, human connection and equality, their works explore the dark and sticky parts of humanity through tenderness, humour and delight in the ephemeral. They fully embrace the role of the artist as an activist, engaging with a wide range of social issues.

Moss specialises in creating, choreographing and performing original storytelling shows. Using a huge range of skills such as clowning, voice, hula hooping, fire dancing, burlesque and drag to bring a passion for art to life. Her works exemplify autistic attention to detail, traversing the borders of liminal perception to create a unique and impactful aesthetic experience. He often uses improvisation, thriving on the energy exchange with his audience.

Moss MCs cabarets for Circus Factory, bringing hilarious characters to the stage to hold space for audiences to experience the breath-taking joy of circus.
Moss is a proud Queer and AuDHD artist.

Yves Lorrhan Silva Santos is a dance artist and choreographer from Northeast Brazil based in Ireland.

With more 26 years of dance experience, he excelled in Ballroom, Afro-Brazilian and Contemporary Dance. For the past 5 years, he has worked with renowned Irish artist Tara Brandel, Kate Wilson, Jess Rowell, Philip Connaughton, Alessandra Azevedo, Osaro Adams, John Scott, Andrea Willian, David McGovern, Oran Leong and others.

He also performed at various festivals, events and also abroad. In 2023, He was granted the Dance Agility Award of the Arts Council of Ireland.  In 2024, he was awarded a residency at Dance Ireland and also at Live Arts Ireland. Yves is one of the twelve artists selected to take part of the fourth edition of the Artists Encounter by Aerowaves Europe in November this year.

Also in 2024, Yves was granted the Dance Bursary Award of the Arts Council of Ireland to develop his practice. in 2025, as part of the Bursary award, he created the ‘Inner Man’ group, a reflective group of men that aims to debate and reflect on masculinities and the role of men in society.

Recently, he was awarded the Artist in the Community Scheme award by Create Ireland and the Participatory Project Award of the Arts Council of Ireland.