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.
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