Bio

Alan began acting with Dublin Youth Theatre, subsequently studying Performance at Dartington College of Arts in Devon. Other training includes Devising Contemporary Performance (with Desperate Optimists Theatre) at the Green Room, Manchester, and the Theatre Maker Summer School (with Chicago’s Goat Island Theatre) at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. In 2020, Alan was an Associate Artist and bursary recipient at both Axis Ballymun and Riverbank Arts Centre where he wrote a draft of a new performance ‘Remember You Must Die’ Alan has worked in professional theatre since 1989, including artist residencies at Junction Arts Centre, Cambridge, The Performance Corporation’s SPACE Programme, and MAKE at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Alan has also been a participant on Pan Pan’s Mentorship Programme. Alan has performed nationally and internationally including shows in Dublin Theatre Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, as well as festivals in France, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Finland, Sweden, Belgium and Malaysia. Alan’s solo performance works have been shown in the ICA London, the CCA Glasgow, and the Expo Live Art festival, Nottingham. Alan is director of performance group Breach & Quinn. Their work has played Project Arts Centre, Carlow Arts Festival, Galway Theatre Festival, as well as Theaterszene Europa Festival, Cologne and George Town Festival, Malaysia.

Project

I was selected with my colleagues in CREATION 21/22, a truly unique programme which was created for performing artists at all stages of their careers and across a range of disciplines (dance, theatre, circus, spectacle, performance art, street arts), to develop their practice, network, learn and showcase work. It will include in-person collaboration opportunities in Ireland, as well an international residency in 2022 The project offers artistic development opportunities through mentoring, coaching, residencies and ‘in-progress’ presentation opportunities as part of Carlow Arts Festival, Dublin Dance Festival, National Circus Festival and Danseur Festival. This project is an opportunity to deeply collaborate with artists from various performing art forms and areas of experience. This residency is specifically focussed on performing artists in the East and Southeast region of Ireland, as well as European partners. It will be designed hand in hand with makers from the Theatre, Dance, and Circus/Street Art/Spectacle worlds to ensure it is delivering to the participating artists what they need at this time. The project is flexible and will focuses on creating space to support artists in the ways they currently need.