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As well as being a freelance actor and Theatre maker she has worked as an Associate Artist at the Abbey Theatre and was Artistic Director of Calypso Productions, winning many awards along the way. Appearances at The Gate include: Private Lives, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Rivals, Come And Go and Salome. She played in Come And Go as part of the Gate’s Beckett
Festival, which toured to London, New York and Melbourne.
She received Best Supporting Actor nominations for roles in Druid productions of The Shaughraun and The Playboy Of The Western World and in The Abbey’s Drama
At Inish.
She recently directed This Property Is Condemned and Talk To Me Like The Rain (Bewleys), My Aunt Bee (Big Guerilla Productions), The Quiet Land (Irish tour), If You Could Read My Mind (Smashing Times), Fallen (Dublin Writers’ Centre), Meeting Ghosts in College Park (Trinity College Museum Building), Your Beautiful Life (TEEU), and As Time Goes By (The Viking).
Productions
CharolaisThe End of the Road
We welcome our Speech and Drama Adjudicator – Bairbre Ní Chaoimh
We welcome to Cork our Speech and Drama Adjudicator Bairbre Ní Chaoimh:
Bairbre is an award-winning actor, director and writer.
A few other credits include Washed Up Love, Val Falvey TD, Glenroe, Scúp, Fair City, Angela’s Ashes, Corp Agus Anam, Aifric, Paddywhackery, Na Fíor Ghaeil, Friends For Life, Aristocrats, Falling For A Dancer, The Pearse Sisters, Finbar’s Class, Frankie Starlight, August Saturday, The Real Charlotte, The Playboy Of The Western Word, Lovers Of The Lake, Les Poneys Sauvages, The Fantasist, The Outcasts, Caught In A Free State, The Orange And The Green, Cúirt An Mheanoíche, Rawhead Rex and Hamlet And Her Brothers.
She was an Associate Artist at The Abbey Theatre for
three years and received and Irish Times award for her directorial work while Artistic
Director of Calypso. Applications for copies of the script and performance rights should be sent to [email protected] or to 3, Saint Laurences Place, Fontenoy Street, Dublin 7.
1st Produced:
Andrews Lane Theatre, Dublin 29 Apr 2002
Organisations:
Calypso Productions
1st Published:
Liberties Press in 2007 987-1-905483-35-8
Music:
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Bairbre Ní Chaoimh is an award-winning actor and director.
Parallel to her quest is the heartbreaking personal story of her mother's upbringing by nuns in a 1940s Industrial school and the harsh facts surrounding the enforeced adoption of her newborn baby. He goes into the palace in search of her and stumbles on a room with a large mirror, in which he sees his own grotesque reflection for the first time.
Bairbre is an award-winning actor, director and writer. the Infanta lives a strange and isolated life in the palace and is only allowed mingle with other children once a year on her birthday.
Recent film and TV roles include Bean Uí Riain in Claonadh, Meryl in The Dry, Professor Noonan in With Love From Aidan and Aisling in An Crann/The Tree (for which she won an Actor’s Craft Award in New York at the First Run Film Festival).
the hunchback is one of many entertainers brought in for her twelfth birthday celebrations. Contact: [email protected]
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She has co-written two plays with Yvonne Quinn – Stolen Child and Maura Laverty – This Was Your Life and is currently writing a play about Kitty Kiernan and her sisters called Four Wedding Dresses And A Funeral Coat.
Bairbre has also worked on radio for RTE, BBC and Near FM.
She and Yvonne Quinn co-wrote a radio version of their stage play Maura Laverty – This Was Your Life for RTE and it received a Zebbie award in 2022.
include Rough Magic, Fishamble, Amharclann de h-Íde, An Taibhdhearc, Aisling Ghéar, Mirari, Mouth On Fire and Storytellers.
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BAIRBRE NI CHAOIMH
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Bairbre Ni Chaoimh is an Irish actor, director and playwright.
She directed plays that toured to Europe, America, Canada, and Australia.
She was an Associate Artist at The Abbey Theatre and received an Irish Times award for her directorial work with Calypso.
Directing credits include Act Without Words II, Play, and Come and Go for the Gate Theatre’s Beckett Festival at The Barbican and Lincoln Center, Master Harold… and the Boys, Operation Easter, The Wonderful World Of Dissocia (Calypso), When The Wall Came Down (Dublin and Berlin), and the multi-award-winning Catalpa, which toured internationally.
She performed in several shows with ANU, including Basin (Blessington Basin) Laundry (Sean Mc Dermott Street Magdalene Laundry), which won the Irish Times Best Production award and Thirteen (Liberty Hall), which won the Irish Times Judges’ Special Award. She has worked with all the major Irish theater companies and on a range of site-specific and immersive shows.
She has worked extensively
on stage, film, TV and radio and has toured nationally and internationally with all the
major Irish theatre companies. 'Stolen Child' was acclaimed as an impotant and ground-breaking new play when first presented by Calypso Productions in 2002.
Other companies she enjoyed working with include Rough Magic, Fishamble, Amharclann de h-Íde, Storytellers, The London Stage Co, An Taibhdhearc, Aisling Ghéar, Mirari, Mouth On Fire, The Curious Ensemble and CTC. Favourite roles include Mrs. Bunch in Lost Hearts, Maura in Maura Laverty – This Was Your Life, Storyteller/Puppeteer in The Selfish Giant, Aunt Bee in Big My Aunt Bee and Mrs.
Brennan in Speckintime’s production of Dáil 100 in Leinster House. She co-wrote 'Stolen Child' with Yvonne Quinn for Calypso, adapted Oscar Wilde's 'the Birthday Of the Infanta' for Bewleys Cafe Theatre and co-created a site specific piece called 'Hand Me Down the Moon' with visual artist Aideen Barry for Women In Space. She has worked extensively on stage, film, TV and radio and has toured nationally and internationally with all the major Irish theatre companies.