Frank Farrell
Performer
Frank Farrell is a Longford based actor and physical performer. His work extends across traditional theatre, physical-movement theatre, site specific theatre and film. Frank holds a BA (Hons) Degree in Performing Arts from Sligo IT. After graduation, Frank was a founding member of Engage Longford, an artists led platform to promote Longford as a hub for contemporary visual art. Recent work includes the short film Jamsey’s Gone Lakes directed by Shane Crossan (Crooked Line Films) commissioned by County Longford Arts Office 2015. His acclaimed one man show TURF, written and directed by Rowan Tolley, has been performed at several festivals throughout Ireland including Blackwater Fit-Up Theatre Festival, Birr Vintage Week and Arts Festival, Galway Theatre Festival, Cruthú Arts Festival, Shorelines Festival, Engage Festival, Culture Night Cavan, and The 3 Provence Festival, Arvagh and many theatres including Backstage Theatre, Longford; The Ramor Virginia and St Johns Listowel.
Rowan Tolley
Director
Rowan Tolley is Yorkshire based, and has been classed as one of Europe’s most original and imaginative white faced mimes. Influenced by Chaplin, Keaton, Tati and Beckett and building on a training of Decroux technique, he studied in London and Paris, creating a style that has been described as ‘Classical with a touch of the unexpected’. He combines touring his highly successful solo show, with teaching, directing, composing and arranging the live music that embeds and surrounds his work. As a Theatre Maker he creates an intensely expressive language of movement, text and live music, that brings a sense and insight into the possibility and un-predictabilities of who we really are. Increasingly interested in the function of silence, he is a great believer in the element of risk for both performer and director.
TURF is the rowan tolley company’s 7th creative collaboration
www.rowantolley.co.uk
Michelle Cahill
Producer
Michelle Cahill is a producer, performer and coach based in Dublin. Her performance work over the past 20 years spans theatre, dance and film, street-performance, puppetry, and community dance practice. Her work has been funded and supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, Dance Ireland, Carlow Arts Festival, Kildare Arts Office, Dublin City Council, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Shawbrook, Dance Cork Firkin Crane, The Laban Guild, and Tipperary Dance. As a producer, she works with a range of artists to create ambitious new works in a variety of contexts: theatre, non-theatre, film, online, outdoors and in gallery spaces. Her full-length solo show Thirteen Steps to the Attic directed by Rowan Tolley premiered in 2017, and toured widely.
www.maydaycreates.com