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PAST EVENTS
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Coffee with the Actors: Nicholas Barasch, Polly McKie, and Christian Strange
On Zoom
Join us on Zoom on Tuesday, August 16 at 2pm ET for a conversation with The Butcher Boy cast members Nicholas Barasch, Polly McKie, and Christian Strange to discuss their careers and their roles in this World Premiere musical. Nicholas Barasch has performed at Irish Rep in A Child’s Christmas in Wales, and most recently starred as Orpheus in the First National Tour of Hadestown. He has been seen on Broadway in the 2009 revival of West Side Story and the 2016 revival of She Loves Me. Polly McKie was most recently seen on Irish Rep’s stage in The Streets of New York, and some of her other credits include The Daughter-in-Law, A Day by the Sea, and A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur. Christian Strange is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, and his Off-Broadway credits include Sunday at the Atlantic Theater Company. Please join us to discuss this thrilling musical with the talented performers bringing it to life.
Coffee with the Creator: Asher Muldoon
Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 2pm ET
On Zoom
In 2017, high school senior Asher Muldoon (Dear Evan Hansen National Tour) approached Irish Rep with an adaptation of Patrick McCabe’s THE BUTCHER BOY, for which he had written book, music, and lyrics. In 2018, Irish Rep mounted a workshop and an enthusiastically-received concert performance. Asher joins us on Zoom for a conversation about this new musical.
Coffee with the Actors: Caroline Strange and Sarah Street
Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 1pm ET
On Zoom
Actors Caroline Strange and Sarah Street will join director Nicola Murphy for this exclusive digital member event. Caroline previously appeared at Irish Rep in London Assurance, our recent reading of an adaption of An Ideal Husband, and just came from Redhouse Arts where she starred as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. You may know Sarah from a number of our productions, including Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol and The O’Casey Cycle. She was recently seen on Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer, Enda Walsh’s Afterwards at Irish Arts Center, and John Breen’s Alone it Stands at 59E59. Nicola Murphy is our Artistic Associate, who has performed on Irish Rep’s mainstage, directed our O’Casey Cycle’s Reading series, and directed New York Times Critics’ Picks A Girl is a Half-formed Thing and Pumpgirl in our studio theatre. Please join us for what is sure to be a delightful conversation with these three talented artists. We are eager to discuss their upcoming New York Premiere of Jaki McCarrick’s Belfast Girls with you!
Script Club: Belfast Girls with Jaki McCarrick
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 2pm ET
On Zoom
Join us for a conversation with Jaki McCarrick, the author of Belfast Girls, which will make its New York City debut at Irish Rep in May. Belfast Girls tells the story of five young women in 1850, onboard a ship bound from Belfast to Sydney, seeking to become “mistresses of their own destiny.” It is a thrilling play, full of rage, love, despair, and above all, hope. Jaki is an award-winning playwright, poet, and fiction writer whose work has been produced around the world. Her play Leopoldville won the 2010 Papatango New Writing Prize and she was shortlisted in 2014 for the inaugural Irish Fiction Laureate on the basis of her debut short story collection The Scattering.
Coffee with an Actor: Kate Forbes
Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 12pm ET
On Zoom
Join us for a conversation with actor Kate Forbes who is making her Irish Repertory Theatre in-person debut playing Nora Melody in A Touch of the Poet. She has also played Josie in O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten at Theatre Royal, Waterford, Ireland, and the Lyric Theater, Belfast. Her Broadway credits include The School for Scandal (Theater World Award), Inherit the Wind (with George C. Scott), Macbeth and Sight Unseen. Her Off-Broadway credits include All’s Well That Ends Well, The Merchant of Venice (with F. Murray Abraham), The Jew of Malta, Othello (all for TFANA); Janice Joplin in Love, Janice at The Village Theatre, Desdemona in Othello (with Live Schreiber) for the Public; and The Entertainer (CSC). She was in rehearsals for A Touch of the Poet in March, 2020 when we had to close our doors. Later, she portrayed Nora Melody in our digital performance-on-screen presentation of A Touch of the Poet, and we’re thrilled to have her with us in person on our mainstage in our current production.
Script Club: Made By God with Ciara Ní Chuirc and Zhe Pan
Tuesday, February 15, 2022, at 2pm ET
On Zoom
New York-based Irish writer Ciara Ní Chuirc joins us to discuss her new play Made By God, which will have its world premiere this February in the Studio Theatre at Irish Rep. She will be joined by Zhe Pan, a cross-discipline theatre artist who is the dramaturg for Irish Rep’s production of Made By God. The play explores the true and tragic story of the 1984 death of teenage mother Ann Lovett and her newborn baby in Granard, County Longford. Ciara Ní Chuirc’s work has been produced in various theatres throughout the US and Ireland. She was a 2018 finalist and 2020 semifinalist for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Zhe Pan’s select credits include: Awakening Youth (Shanghai, ET Space, Dramaturg), Juggernaut, 36 Questions (Columbia Stage, Dramaturg) The Box Cutter, In the Woods Where the Man Works ( New York Winterfest, Ensemble, Dramaturg). Zhe is a Dramaturgy MFA candidate at Columbia University School of Arts and the Artistic Intern at The Drama League.
Coffee with an Actor: Clare O’Malley
Tuesday, January 25, 2022 at 2pm ET
On Zoom
This January, we’re thrilled to welcome back Irish Rep company member Clare O’Malley. Join us for a conversation about Clare’s career, recent acting experiences, and the one-woman show she produced this year. Clare has performed on our stages in The Plough and the Stars (The Sean O’Casey Season), Three Small Irish Masterpieces, The Dead, 1904, and The New York Times Critic’s Pick Pumpgirl, where she was singled out as “one of the most astonishing performances” that year. And on January 18 at Irish Rep, you can catch her one-act musical cabaret Transatlantic Living, a bitingly funny and heartfelt musical journey through her immigration odyssey from Alien to United States Citizen and beyond into navigating a transatlantic life.
Script Club: Annie Ryan
Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 2 PM ET
On Zoom
Member Holiday Party
Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 1 PM ET
On Zoom
Wherever you are in the world, please join us for an hour of merriment, games, and music!
Irish Rep Company Member Michael Mellamphy will teach you how to craft a seasonal cocktail to kick off the event. Then, with holiday greetings from Charlotte and Ciarán, we’ll dive into a few rounds of our favorite game, Irish Rep trivia! There will be prizes, so bring your thinking caps! Finally, Mark Hartmann, the Music Director of The Streets of New York, will play some festive tunes live from Irish Rep! Get to know the man behind the music in our holiday show and sing along to some carols. We’re excited to get our whole community together from around the world to celebrate the season and thank you for your meaningful support.
Coffee with the Creatives: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
Tuesday, November 30 at 2 PM ET
On Zoom
We’re mixing up our popular Coffee with an Actor series to bring you a conversation with several of the artists behind our currently running production of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing. We’ll be chatting with set designer Chen-Wei Liao, composer and sound designer Nathanael Brown, director Nicola Murphy, as well as the star of the show Jenn Murray.
Script Club: Kevin Barry
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at 2 PM ET
On Zoom
Coffee with the Actors: Maeve Higgins and John Keating
Monday, September 27, 2021 at 2 PM ET
On Zoom
We’re delighted to welcome to another of our behind-the-scenes conversations with the artists of Irish Rep. On September 27, at 2pm (ET) we welcome the cast of Irish Rep’s upcoming in-person production of Autumn Royal – Maeve Higgins and John Keating. Maeve Higgins is a writer whose work appears regularly in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. A New Yorker originally from Ireland, she is an NPR favorite, and hosts a live comedy show each week in Brooklyn. In 2020, her starring role in the comedy horror movie Extra Ordinary garnered acclaim around the world. John Keating is a proud company member of Irish Rep, where he has performed in many shows: Irish Rep’s Performance on Screen of The Weir, 2019 Callaway Award for performance in The O’Casey Cycle, 2019 Sustained Excellence Award from Irish Rep, most recently Lady G: Plays and Whisperings of Lady Gregory, The O’Casey Cycle, Pigeon in the Taj Mahal, Rebel in the Soul, The Weir, and Da. These two wonderful actors are taking a break from rehearsal to zoom in with us and share their experience of returning to live rehearsals at Irish Rep.
Coffee with a Director: Joe O’Byrne
On Zoom
Script Club: The Cordelia Dream
On Zoom
Coffee with an Actor: Ali Ewoldt
On Zoom
Script Club: Little Gem
On Zoom
Coffee with an Actor: Aedín Moloney
On Zoom
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot with Bill Irwin
Thursday, January 21, 2021
1:00-2:00pm EST
On Zoom
Master clown, Tony Award-winning actor, and MacArthur, Guggenheim, and Fulbright Fellow Bill Irwin can’t escape Irish Rep. After his celebrated ON BECKETT / IN SCREEN, itself a reimagining of his award-winning ON BECKETT, Irwin returns to Irish Rep to lead a discussion of Samuel Beckett’s iconic play WAITING FOR GODOT. He will be joined by Irish Rep’s Producing Director Ciarán O’Reilly as they break down the opening scene from the actor’s perspective. Bring questions and observations for a lively discussion!
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Coffee with an Actor:
Shereen Ahmed in conversation with Charlotte Moore
Friday, January 15, 2021
12:00-12:45pm EST
On Zoom
Irish Rep members are invited to take part in the first Coffee with an Actor of 2021 as Irish Rep’s Artistic Director Charlotte Moore speaks with Shereen Ahmed, star of our recent MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS. Charlotte and Shereen will talk about working on and off Broadway, touring with Broadway shows, getting your first break in the theatre industry, Shereen’s experience as an Arab-American actress in musical theatre, and more.
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Coffee with an Actor: Robert Cuccioli
On Zoom
Irish Rep members took part in our inaugural Coffee with an Actor as we engaged in an off-the-cuff conversation with Tony nominee Robert Cuccioli, star of the upcoming A Touch of the Poet. Producing Director Ciarán O’Reilly hosted a conversation about Bob’s career on and off Broadway, his television appearances, and his work as a director, interspersed with anecdotes about a life in the performing arts and reflections on what it means to be an actor today.