Ensemble : Colours Artists
Rhiann Jeffrey
Rhiann Jeffrey is a Freelance Theatre Director and Associate Director for Prime Cut Productions. Rhiann is currently directing ‘The Pause Between Now and Next’ for the Irish Arts Centre, New York, in association with the Lyric Theatre, ‘Blowing Minds’ by Rosemary Jenkinson for Brassneck Theatre Company, and the second season of ‘VERGE’ a series of online play readings for Prime Cut Productions.
Recent directing credits include; ‘On the Street Where We Live,’ an 8-part radio drama produced by The Mac, ‘Belfast 2050: Under the Albert Clock’ produced by the Lyric Theatre in association with Origin Theatre Company (New York Times Critics Pick), ‘Life From Time,’ a short film by Caoileann Curry-Thomspon for Prime Cut Productions, ‘No Explanation’ a short film by Kyron Bourke, ‘VERGE: Season 1’, ‘Glory: Desire’ for NI Opera Studio, ‘The Right Twig’ for Fighting Words, ‘The Tempest’ for Rose Bruford College and ‘Everyday I Wake Up Hopeful,’ by John Patrick Higgins for Prime Cut Productions.
Ciaran Bagnall
Ciaran Bagnall is the Creative Director for Prime Cut Productions. He trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff and was made a fellow of the college in 2017.
Recent Theatre includes:
Set & Lighting Design: The Whip (RSC); Peter Pan (Hull Truck); A Christmas Carol (The Gate, Dublin); The Merchant of Venice (The Great Theatre, Shanghai); This Beautiful Village (Abbey Theatre Dublin, Set Design only); The Magic Flute (INO, Wexford Opera House, Gaiety Dublin); A Streetcar named Desire (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Lady Magma (Atelier de Paris); The Last Yankee (Library Theatre, Bolton); UBU The King (Tinderbox, MAC, Belfast); Oliver Twist (Hull Truck); And Did those Feet (Macron Stadium, Bolton); Double Cross (Lyric Theatre Belfast & Abbey Theatre, Dublin); The Mai (Irish Tour/Dublin Theatre Festival); Lovers (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); The Man who fell to Pieces, Hard to be Soft (The MAC, Belfast); The Great Gatsby (Gate Theatre, Dublin – Winner Best Design Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards); RED (Lyric Theatre, Belfast – Winner Best Design Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards); The Train, Observe the Sons of Ulster marching towards the Somme (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Ashes, Educating Rita, Two, Two 2, A view from the Bridge, Love Story, Twelfth Night, Piaf, Of Mice and Men, Tull, The Glass Menagerie, Habeas Corpus, Secret Thoughts, Oleanna (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); A Christmas Treasure Island, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella (Hull Truck); Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe, London); Singin’ in the Rain (UK Tour); Othello (RSC, Stratford upon Avon); Lally the Scut, The God of Carnage, Villa, Discurso, Tejas Verdes (MAC, Belfast); Conquest of Happiness (Olympic Stadium, Sarajevo); Shoot the Crow (Opera House, Belfast); Snookered (Bush Theatre, London); The Killing of Sister George (Arts Theatre, London); A Slight Ache and Landscape (Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre London).
Carl Kennedy
Carl Kennedy has worked on theatre productions since 2007, working with venues and
companies since 2007 including Prime Cut Productions, The Lyric Theatre, The Abbey, The
Gaiety, Rough Magic, Landmark, Decadent, Fishamble, Theatre Lovett, ANU Productions,
HOME Manchester and many others. He has also worked on productions for TV, games,
installations and radio.
Nandi Jola
Nandi Jola is an exceptional playwright, poet, writer and creative writing facilitator originally from South Africa and who now lives in Portadown, Northern Ireland.
She is a currently a writer for Brassneck Theatre’s, Six Project. Her Creative Writing projects include Phenomenal Women and Same-Difference. Nandi’s play, The Journey, opened the prestigious International Literature Festival Dublin in October 2020. In 2013 she managed the, Home is Neither Here Nor There, exhibition in the Long Gallery at Parliament Buildings, Stormont. Nandi’s work has been published in Fortnight481 and by Arlen House Publishing. Nandi is a former SIAP awardee of the Arts Council, a career development award funded by National Lottery funding.
Conan McIvor
Conan McIvor is a filmmaker and video artist who creates short films, video installations, immersive environments and video works for cinema, exhibition, theatre and live performance. To date, his work has been exhibited locally and internationally in a variety of exciting venues including a disused police station, freight container and sonic lab as well as traditional gallery spaces, international film festivals, national theatres, off-Broadway performances and broadcast on national television. Notable recent work for the stage includes video deign for: Removed directed by Emma Jordan at IPAY, Philadelphia (2020); The Patient Gloria directed by John McIlduff at the Peacock, Abbey theatre (2019); The Snapper directed by Roísín MacBrinn at The Gate theatre (2019); and Tribes directed by Oonagh Murphy at The Gate theatre (2017). Drama directed for the screen includes: Good Boy (2015), Dam (2017) and Forgive Me Not (2018).
Fintan Brady
Fintan Brady is the artistic director of Partisan Productions, a theatre and film production company committed to creating socially engaged art. He has worked as a writer, director and lecturer in a variety of local and international settings and is a recipient of the Otto Castillo Award for Political Theatre (New York) and winner of Best Irish Short Film at the Foyle International Film festival for Pretty Face, a short opera set in a Young Offenders Centre. Most recently, his East Belfast Boy toured to Edinburgh and across Ireland in an acclaimed production by Prime Cut. He is currently adapting his Belfast Trilogy for RTE Radio Drama. Fintan has worked extensively as a facilitator and workshop leader with individuals and communities whose creativity is otherwise poorly supported and whose voice is usually well worth hearing.
Janie Doherty
Janie Doherty is a movement based artist from Derry and is currently based in Belfast. After graduating with a first class honours in Dance in 2009 – Janie has been working as a dance facilitator, performer and creator in Northern Ireland. Janie’s work focuses on vulnerability as strength and she experiments with story-telling, film, sound and live performance. Janie has recently developed a new body of work as part of the Freelands foundation 2018-2020 and is currently collaborating on several projects with Oona Doherty, Locky Morris and Alessandra Celesia.
For more info and work- see website: www.janiedoherty.co.uk
Roisin Gallagher
Roisin Gallagher lives in Belfast and works as an actor, theatre maker and facilitator. She
graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland 12 years ago and has since worked
extensively in theatre’s across NI and the UK. Television work includes, Doing Money, Come
Home, Paula and The Fall. She frequently reads short stories for BBC Radio 4 and can be
currently heard in BBC radio Ulster comedy ‘What happens in Ulster Stays in Ulster’
As well has performing Roisin is passionate about the empowering impact the Arts and
Drama can have on people of all ages in our community. She has worked in schools and
community settings on numerous art outreach programmes and is delighted to be working
again with Prime cut on their fantastic ensemble programme.
Louise Mathews
Louise trained at Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin. She has been facilitating youth and community theatre for over 20 years, devising, writing and directing plays. She runs Time To Shine Drama company. As a playwright Louise’s debut “Immaculate” has just premiered with Tinderbox Theatre Co. Louise enjoys collaborating as a facilitator with Prime Cut Productions on their amazing Ensemble project.
Louise appeared the film Last Right written by Aoife Crehan. She appeared in Hansel and Gretel in the MAC. Other work includes Here We Lie for Rawlife Theatre and Sinners by Marie Jones in Lyric Theatre.
Louise is a collaborator with award winning ANU Productions, Dublin. Projects Directed by Louise Lowe include, Sunder, The Boys Of Foley Street, (Dublin Theatre Festival), Into The Sun, (Accenture IWD). Other theatre credits include: Macha Productions, on Entitled, MAC Belfast, (Dir Fionnuala Kennedy), Ignition, Tinderbox, MAC Belfast (Dir Patrick J O’Reilly). Shibboleth, Abbey Theatre (Dir Hamish Pirie), The Trouble With Harry for Theatre Of Pluck (Dir Alyson Campbell) The MAC Belfast. For Kabosh Theatre Co; No News Is Good News, (Dir Paula McFetridge) Laser Lunacy and Hostel (Dir Fionnuala Kennedy). Prime Cut’s As If for the First Time (Dir, Louise Lowe), Red Lemon’s The Generous Bank (Dir Patrick J O’Reilly), Bed Behaviour (Frantic Assembly and Prime Cut Actors Lab).
Film and Television credits include, Dave Allen At Peace (BBC, Dir Andy De Emmony), A Bad Day for the Cut, (Six Mile Hill, Dir Chris Baugh) A Patch of Fog (Dir Michael Lennox), Stumpy’s Brae, (BBCNI, Six Mile Hill Productions, Dir Chris Baugh), Behold the Lamb (Dir. John McIlduff).
In The Shadow Of The State, Milk and Marble (Visual Artists Sarah Browne and Jesse Jones).
Louise has written and directed many Youth productions across NI and is the director of Time To Shine Drama.
Bobbi Rai Purdy
Bobbi Rai Purdy is the Community Engagement Manager of Prime Cut Productions and
Project Manager for Ensemble Colours. Bobbi is a professional Visual Artist, and has worked
with a wide range of arts organisations across Belfast for the last 25 years including the Lyric
Theatre, Wheelworks, Young at Art and Belfast Carnival with whom she has a designed and
delivered community engagement programmes in the Arts incorporating Theatre and all
aspects of the visual arts. She was the lead Artist on Prime Cut Productions award-winning
Processions for Artichoke and 14-18 Now.
