Email: harry.hennessy@nyu.edu
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They completed the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing programme at the Tisch School of the Performing Arts, NYU, in May 2023.
Music from their rap-musical Illumination was featured as a part of a musical revue at the Off-Broadway theater Joe’s Pub that Summer.
Their recent work includes Son of the Land, an immersive work of participatory theatre presented as a part of the Earth Rising Festival at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in September of this year.
Their piece Ar An Dé Deiridh, an Irish language play-with-music, recently completed a tour of South Connemera in June. It was reviewed favourably on tuairisc.ie.
They recently completed a week of development in DublinFringeLab for their latest play, Mo Chac, with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival and the Arts Council of Ireland.
The year is 1256 AD. Éamon Coséadrom, a valiant messenger for the Uí Fhlaithbheartaigh Clan of Iar Connacht, witnesses his brother’s death in a devastating defeat by the Norman forces of Walter de Burke. Éamon embarks on a marathon run from modern-day Moycullen to Carraroe.
His mission is to warn his people of their impending doom, and to grieve with his family. But how can he face them? And how to save those who remain? In this dark and complex tale of survival, exploring questions of colonialism and national identity, Éamon knows only one thing for certain: he must keep running.
The production has received funding from the Scéal na Gaillimhe initiative, with support from an Taibhdhearc and the Galway Culture Company, aiming to capture the essence of Galway's rich cultural and artistic heritage, along with Pleanáil Teanga Inis Oírr and Dhúiche Sheoigheach.
World premiere
An Taidhbhearc, the Irish National Language Theatre, 07/04/24
South-Connemara Tour
- Áras Éanna, Inisheer, 16/07/24
- 18th: Seanscoil Sailearna, Inverin, 18/07/24
- 24th: Áras Pobail, Cornamona, 24/07/24
“Don’t you think you should let me eat you?”
Clouds uncover to reveal a full moon. A lonely creature gazes up in silence.
“Don’t you think you should let me go free?”
A woman stands in the moonlight, head bent in prayer. She hears something approaching through the traffic island by the Customs House.
United across the generations, each fight for their survival.
An immersive work of participatory theatre.
Presented in the grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern Art
As a part of the Earth Rising Festival, 21 & 22/9/24
Link to soundcloud audio recording:
https://on.soundcloud.com/Rv66xJhXk1sdJdHp7
Left: Graphic design for poster and fliers,
Earth Rising Festival @ IMMA
In 1871, established poet Paul Verlaine invited a seventeen year old enfant terrible, Arthur Rimbaud, to join him in Paris from rural France. Over the course of a tumultuous and illict love-affair, they changed the course of each other’s lives, and the course of poetry forever.
Music by Chris Gierymski.
Left: Performance of Bright Child from Illumination at the Joe’s Pub Off-Broadway venue in NYC
Loosely adapted from Jonathon Swift’s polemic of the same name, this darkly comic tragedy charts the inverse fortunes of an impoverished Irish family, and an aristocratic family of Anglo-Irish landowners during the Great Famine.
Debuting in the Trinity College Players’ society in 2017, it recently had its American debut at the Goldberg Theater, NYC.
Left: Performance of A Modest Proposal
@ DU Players’ Theatre