solosirens Team

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Jenny Macdonald is a writer, performer, director and facilitator. Recent credits  as director/performer This Was Never Going to Be Normal (Deirdre Murphy & Rebecca Reilly, Galway Theatre Festival)l; as director Can’t See the Woods for the Trees (Doors to Elsewhere Ensemble, Rua Red Gallery); and as performer Capitalism: The Musical! by Deirdre Murphy (Galway Theatre Festival, XM24 and Next Emerson, Italy). Her solo show Enthroned premiered at First Fortnight Festival and then  in the New York International Fringe. She was a participant on Lead Role, a development programme for women artists (Theatre Forum and Kultur Vast, Sweden). She is an alumnus of Dublin Theatre Festival’s artist development programme, The Next Stage and an Associate Artist with Tallaght Community Arts.  

Jennifer is a facilitator and producer. She has worked as an associate artist with Tallaght Community Arts for over nine years. She set up Carousel Theatre School based in RUA RED in 2010. She is  a theatre artist with  Doors to Elsewhere, a theatre ensemble for adults with a disability. 

Her work as producer includes The Great Rope of Tallaght,  Gaza Monologues, Aeridheacht -Taking the Air, Act Up Theatre Festival, Creative Campus.                                                                                                                     

Sorcha is a theatre practitioner from Derry with a passion for using drama as a tool for social change. Having trained as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama she has toured in shows all over the UK and Ireland, the US, Belguim and Germany.  A professional clown and stiltwalker, Sorcha is currently studying for a masters in Trauma Studies from UCC.

Along with her friend Gemma Walker Farren she is also part of MakeyUppers, a comedy storytelling duo who create sketches, shows and facilitate projects on social issues they are passionate about. Their show 'Alternative Bedtime Stories' received 5* reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2018, and has toured the UK and Ireland.

A regular at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, she has worked in all aspects of theatre, including as stage manager/co-producer of 'Iraq Out Loud', a continuous 284 hour reading by over 1,200 people of the Chilcott Report into the Iraq War, which won the “Spirit of the Fringe” panel prize award in 2016. 

. Pai Rathaya is a Thai theatre designer based in Dublin and Bangkok who has worked as a set and costume designer. Her work spans across theatre, opera and musical theatre. Rathaya graduated with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, in 2013. Master of Dramatic Arts, Chulalongkorn University, in 2017 . In 2018, she moved to Dublin to study MFA stage design at the Lir Academy and graduated with distinction. 
 

Fia Kavanagh is a sound engineer and music artist based in Dublin. She holds an MA in Music Technologies and began her technical training with Science Gallery Dublin, where she interned as Exhibition Technician 2016-2017. Since then she has worked in live events and theatre, on productions for Aiken Promotions, The Gate Theatre Company, Press Up to name a few, as well as creating and producing her own music.

  Farah Elle is a progressive Artist / Musician based in Dublin, whose distinctive voice reveals something of the beauty in the ephemeral everyday. Farah has eclectic influences, rich in Libyan echoes from her North African background. Her ethos as an Artist is to actively value the power of music and language as tools for progress and healing. Farah also holds music & wellness workshops to encourage people of all creeds to creatively express themselves and celebrate their identities.