GUTTER
OFF THE RAILS
Artistic Director | Choreographer
Eileen McClory
Eileen was the recipient of the Major Individual Arts Award from the Arts Council Northern Ireland, in 2022, to develop a new work GUTTER. Eileen has received commissions from Quotidian: Word on the Street, Nemesis: A movement Opera, in development for 2025 & BIND 2021, Maiden Voyage Dance Company: Epilogue 2021 & BRINK 2020, The Playhouse Derry: TURF 2018, Tinderbox Theatre Company: CUCK 2017. Residencies include: CCN2 Grenoble, France 2022, Belfast City Council: Artist in Residence Bursary 2021, Belfast International Arts Festival: Artist in Residence 2020/21, 2016 Dansmakers, Amsterdam: The Game Show supported by Arts Council NI. The MAC Belfast, HATCH Artist, 2013/14. As an established dance artist, Eileen has worked with: The Playhouse, Derry; Tinderbox Theatre Company, Theatre of Pluck, Replay, ponydance, Accidental Theatre, DU Dance, Bruiser Theatre Company and Assault Events (UK). She has performed in international festivals such as Bauhaus Summary (DE) Christchurch Festival, Taranaki Arts Festival (NZ), Darwin Festival (AUS), Greenspace Festival (USA), Feile An Phobail, Pick n Mix Festival, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival and Outburst Arts (all in NI) and her work as been presented at the Belfast International Arts Festival 2020, British Council & China Showcase 2020 and Attakkalari India Biennial 21-22. She received a BA Dance from Liverpool John Moores University (04) and completed a two-year Professional Training Programme at Dance New Amsterdam, New York (09). In 2020 Eileen completed MA Contemporary Performance Practice, from Ulster University with Distinction.
Creative Producer
Hannah Mullan
Hannah has twenty years experience in a variety of producing and curatorial roles. She has worked as a freelance Creative Producer with clients such as The Civic Theatre, Dublin and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. She was Creative Producer for the award winning ANU Productions and WilllFredd Theatre before leaving to work for VISUAL, Carlow and The Courthouse, Tinahealy. She received funding from The Arts Council of Ireland to participate in Robert Wilson’s Watermill Centre Residency Program and was sponsored by the Asia Europe foundation to take part in the European Festival Association’s Atelier for Young Festival Managers in Singapore. Hannah was awarded one of the Live to Digital commissions from The Lyric, Belfast for which she produced her first VR work, Macbeth VR which fused first folio text with cutting edge immersive technology using Animotive with RETínìze Studio, Belfast. In 2023 she was awarded her second bursary from Arts Council, Ireland’s YPCE department to continue her research into the development of work for young audiences. She has recently founded her consultancy and production company PLAYGROUND Productions which produces work for young audiences and advises arts organisations and policy makers on best practice approaches to programming work for and with young audiences.
GUTTER
TEAM
HOST
Kévin Coquelard
Kévin began dance and theatre in France. In 2008, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he danced in choreographies by Hofesh Schecter, Itzik Galili, Merce Cunningham and Pina Baush. Kévin made his Irish debut with The Irish Modern Dance Theatre in 2013, performing widely including in New York, Paris and Dublin. Since, he also performed for Philip Connaughton, Catherine Young, Maria Nilsson Waller, Liz Roche, Jenny Roche and Junk Ensemble.His first solo, Le somnambule won the Public’s Final Choice Award and the 2nd Prize of Best Performance in the 22nd Solo Tanz Festival in Stuttgart in March 2018. In 2019, he became Birdboy as he was invited by Emma Martin/United Fall to collaborate on an unconventional dance show for children. In 2022, he collaborate with Theatre Lovett and the gate theater on the production of The Tin Soldier that got him a nomination for best movement at the Irish Times Theatre Award 2023.
Dramaturg
Hanna Slättne
Hanna is a dance and theatre dramaturg in UK/Ireland. She has previously worked with Off The Rails on Cuck (2017). She is company dramaturg with Catherine Young Dance where she has worked on State of Exception (2018), Floating on a Dead Sea (2021) and A Call To You (2022/23). Recent works with other dance companies include Helen Hall Dance in Belfast and choreographers Ali Clarke and Roisin Wheelan in Ireland. Her professional work also include, theatre, new writing and XR dramaturgy with a specialism in immersive audio. Recent works Selvage and Gol for Brú Theatre, Stronger for Guna Nua Theatre Company, A Museum in Baghdad (RSC, Stratford), and a range of development processes with artists north and south on the island. She is a co-founder of the Dramaturgs’ Network Ireland.
Video Design
Conan McIvor
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Conan is a Filmmaker, Theatre-maker and Video Artist who creates fiction, documentary and experimental films, visual installations, immersive environments, and video works for theatre. His work has been exhibited in cinemas, galleries, festivals, national theatres, broadcast on national television and held in the Arts Council Northern Ireland collection. Conan was nominated for the Best Video Design at The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2022; he received the Visual Artists Ireland Experience Award 2022 with Vivienne Dick; and was British Council Filmmaker-in-Residence at Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris November 2022. Conan received an Arts Council Ireland Theatre Bursary 2022 to expand his practice as a Theatre Director & Designer. His recent sell-out production Waiting For The Offo at The New Theatre Dublin marked his 50th design credit and 1st directing credit for the stage.
Sound Design
Garth McConaghie
Garth has worked extensively as a Composer, Sound Designer, Musical Director, Arranger and Music Producer for studios, theatre, film and television. Garth's work has been performed and broadcast all over the UK, Ireland and internationally as part of theatrical productions, exhibitions, art installations, television and radio. Recent TV/Radio Credits include: Derry Girls (Hat Trick Productions, Channel 4), Flight (BBC 1 / BBC 4), My Mother and Other Strangers (BBC 1), Malaria, Comic Relief, Days Like This (BBC NI, nominated for IFTA), Wee Wise Words (BBC NI), Not Now Farley (BBC Learning Zone), On the Air (BBC NI), Ulster Volunteers (RTE), A Year in Sex City (DoubleBand Films/BBC 1). Recent Theatre Credits include: X’ntigone (Prime Cut Productions / MAC, Belfast), The Border Game (Prime Cut Productions), A Night in November (Soda Bread, Chiswick Playhouse), Mojo Mickybo (Bruiser), In the Name of the Son (GBL Productions), A Christmas Carol (MAC Belfast).
Lightning Design
Sarah Jane Sheils
Sarah Jane (SJ) is a free-lance lighting and set designer. She began designing as a member Dublin Youth Theatre at the age of 14, completing a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies 2006 (Trinity), and the Rough Magic Seeds3 programme 2006 - 2008. From 2010 – 2017, she was co-artistic director of WillFredd Theatre.
Awards:
2015 Irish Times Theatre Award, Best Lighting Design It Folds (Junk Ensemble and Brokentalkers) and PALS (ANU Productions)
2012 Dublin Fringe Festival, Best Offsite Production FARM (WillFredd Theatre)
2011 Dublin Fringe Festival, Spirit of the Fringe FOLLOW (WillFredd Theatre)
2009 Irish Times Theatre Award, Best Production Phaedra’s Love (Loose Canon)
Stage Manager
Caoimhe McGee
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Caoimhe is a freelance theatre maker from Donegal and a graduate of the Drama BA and Arts Management MA from Queen’s University, Belfast. Caoimhe has been working professionally as a stage and production manager since 2019 with the likes of Prime Cut Productions, Terra Nova Productions, The Lyric Theatre, Rhiann Jeffrey and Oona Doherty. In 2022 she debuted her self-written, directed and produced show ‘Freshers’, in collaboration with movement artist Rosie Mullin, for the Scene and Heard Festival in Dublin. ‘Freshers’ was shown again at this year’s Bród na Gaeltachta festival in Donegal as well as a rehearsed reading of a work in progress piece called ‘Sapphic’, also written and directed by Caoimhe. Caoimhe is currently co-directing, co-producing and stage managing ‘Float’ by Kirby Thompson and Orla Graham.
Production Manager
Alan Clarke
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Alan Clarke is an extremely experienced production manager so much so he doesn't was to brag! We think he's class!
Commissioned by Belfast International Arts Festival in association with The MAC Belfast.
Funded by Art Council Northern Ireland and Belfast City Council.
The team would like to thank: Richard and all Belfast International Arts Festival; the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Lottery Fund, Simon, Julie and the team at The Mac, Sophie and her team at The Crescent, Belfast City Council, The Lyric Theatre and Maiden Voyage Dance.
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