Triskel Backstage

Brendan Galvin is a freelance company and production manager. He has worked extensively in the theatre and entertainment industry. Spanning a career over forty years, he has held many positions, some of which include: 

• Irish National Ballet: Stage Manager
• Opera House, Cork: Production Manager
• Belfast Festival at Queens: Production Manager
• Riverdance European & Japan Tours: Company Manager
• Gate Theatre, Dublin: Tour Production Manager for The Beckett Festival, Lincoln Centre, New York, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, Du Maurier Festival, Toronto, Melbourne Festival, Barbican Festival London, Sydney Festival, Pinter Festival Gate Theatre, Waiting for Godot National and International Tour Manager.
• Mark Knopfler, Sailing to Philadelphia World Tour: Assistant Tour Manager
• Riverdance on Broadway: Line Producer
• Julian Lloyd Webber Irish Tour: Tour Manager
• Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork: Théâtre Manager.
• Landmark Productions: Stage Director: Underneath the Lintel, The Last Days of the Celtic Tiger, Between Foxrock and a Hard Place, Greener, Knives in Hens, Breaking Dad. Backwards Up a Rainbow, Straight to Video.
• Abbey Theatre, Dublin: Company Stage Manager and Tour Production Manager for the Abbey Theatre on numerous productions since 2008. His most recent work was as Company Stage Manger on the national tour of Every Brilliant Thing and the highly acclaimed An Octoroon which recently finished at the Abbey Theatre.

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Triskel Backstage is hosted by Gillian Hennessy, Marketing and Development Manager with Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, and Eimear O'Brien, Director of Lunasa PR.

Miguel Amado is a curator and a critic. He is Director of SIRIUS, Cobh, County Cork, Ireland. His key past posts include Director, Cork Printmakers, Ireland; Senior Curator, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, England; Curator, Tate St Ives, England; Curator, Curator, PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon; Visual Arts Centre, Coimbra, Portugal; Curator-in-residence, Abrons Arts Center, New York; Curatorial Fellow, Rhizome at the New Museum, New York; editor, W-Art, Porto. His key exhibitions, projects and events curated as a freelancer include the Portuguese Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale; apexart, New York; Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon; Frieze Projects, Frieze London; Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou/Nantes, France; ARCO, Madrid/Lisbon. He regularly contributes to Artforum and the Visual Artists’ News Sheet. His education includes the MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, London.

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Triskel Backstage is hosted by Gillian Hennessy, Marketing and Development Manager with Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, and Eimear O'Brien, Director of Lunasa PR.

Liz Meaney is Performing Arts Director for the Arts Council. As a senior leader she has held positions in a range of art form and practice areas. As Arts Director she led on the policy and processes which resulted support for; a new national opera company, a three year funding agreement for Ireland’s National Theatre the Abbey, and the transformation of the agencies key funding programmes. Liz was responsible for the Arts Council 2016 centenary programme where she ensured the development and delivery of one of the country’s most successful national commissioning programmes. Liz led the establishment of Creative Schools. This Arts Council programme, now running across 300 schools, operates in partnership with the Dept of Education and Skills and Creative Ireland. In her early career she worked with Cork Film Centre, Cork Film Festival and Kino Arthouse Cinema. She was Manager of the Galway Film Centre, a film resource organisation, from 1997-2001. Returning to Cork in 2001 she took up her position as Cork City Council Arts Officer and was involved both in the bid and the realisation of Cork as European Capital of Culture 2005. She has served on the boards of Cork 2005 European Capital of Culture, the Association of Irish Festivals and Events, and Cork Midsummer Festival. She was Chair of the Association of Local Authority Arts Officers. Her experience ranges from the commissioning of large scale public spectacles with audiences in excess of 150,000 to long term strategic planning, capital projects and grant aid management. A graduate of University College Cork, Liz has a Masters in Irish History. She is a certified IPI Project Manager.

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Triskel Backstage is hosted by Gillian Hennessy, Marketing and Development Manager with Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, and Eimear O'Brien, Director of Lunasa PR.

Conor Coyle is Ticketsolve’s Head of Operations and oversees customer onboardings, training and support. He previously managed the box office at The Helix in Dublin and has run events and box offices in his ‘spare time’ for years.

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Triskel Backstage is hosted by Gillian Hennessy, Marketing and Development Manager with Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, and Eimear O'Brien, Director of Lunasa PR.

Michelle Carew is the Arts Officer at Cork City Council working with artists, cultural groups, art facilities and numerous other individuals to put arts at the centre of the city and ensure access to the arts for all residents and visitors to Cork City.

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Triskel Backstage is hosted by Gillian Hennessy, Marketing and Development Manager with Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, and Eimear O'Brien, Director of Lunasa PR.

As Development and Partnerships Manager for The Everyman Anna Marie Coughlan is responsible for diversifying the income streams and promoting all fundraising activities for this vibrant cultural hub. A registered charity, The Everyman has been a part of Ireland’s cultural heritage for 125 years. Their ornate Victorian auditorium is a nationally important structure of rare historical and cultural value. Presenting an extraordinary range live entertainment, The Everyman’s programme includes drama, opera, comedy, music theatre and light entertainment. Their vision is to be an internationally recognised centre of excellence for theatre in Ireland and a vibrant cultural centre for Cork. They aim to support and enrich the cultural fabric of our country by delivering an ambitious programme in a beautiful venue that serves the audience of today and builds the audience of the future. The Everyman aspires to be a beacon of inspirational storytelling and performance, to provide experiences which have the power to alter perspectives and make the heart beat a little bit faster.

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Triskel Backstage is hosted by Gillian Hennessy, Marketing and Development Manager with Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, and Eimear O'Brien, Director of Lunasa PR.

Chloé Nagle is a freelance Sound Engineer who mixes Front of House sound for live concerts. She first earned her stripes at Cork’s legendary Lobby Bar before going on to work for myriad bands, venues and production companies over the years. Chloé works with all musical styles from rock and trad to jazz and heavy metal as well as rap, classical, EDM and folk. She is equally happy behind the mixing desk in small folk clubs, large venues such as Vicar Street and muddy Electric Picnic festival fields. Career highlights include international tours with numerous bands, engineering for recent Presidential State visit concerts in Athens, Berlin and The Royal Albert Hall in London as well as working on TV shows such as RTE broadcasts Other Voices and The Heart of Saturday Night. Chloé has been resident FOH Sound Engineer for Other Voices since 2010, Touring Engineer with Mick Flannery since 2008 and House Sound Engineer at Triskel Christchurch in Cork since 2015. She also teaches Sound Engineering at CSN in Cork.

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Triskel Backstage is hosted by Gillian Hennessy, Marketing and Development Manager with Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, and Eimear O'Brien, Director of Lunasa PR.

Maximilian Le Cain has created a prolific and acclaimed body of moving image work including features, shorts, installations and film-related performances. He is affiliated with Experimental Film Society (EFS), a Dublin-based company that produces and promotes the work of a group of international artists and filmmakers who are linked by a dedication to personal experimental cinema. He frequently works in partnership with Vicky Langan. Their decade-long collaboration has created an intimate but unsettling personal universe in film and performance.​ His filmmaking proposes a personal relationship with cinema as a site of haunting. Accepted visual and storytelling codes are encouraged to collapse into a more personalised system that approaches moving imagery as an experiential construct open to possession by multiple claims of memory and interpretation. https://www.maximilianlecain.com/

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Triskel Backstage is hosted by Gillian Hennessy, Marketing and Development Manager with Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, and Eimear O'Brien, Director of Lunasa PR.

Caoimhe is a graduate of Dún Laoghaire IADT with a BA in English, Media and Cultural Studies. After several years living abroad in Australia and Canada, she joined Wordwell publishers in 2015, working with Irish interest books and magazines, primarily Books Ireland magazine. She has a lot of experience in the area of development, communications and marketing and in 2019 she joined the New Island team with a focus on publicity and marketing. In addition to her work with New Island, Caoimhe is currently vice-chair of Publishing Ireland and additionally sits on the board for both the Dublin Book Festival and 80:20: an educational development project in Bray. She is currently Marketing and Publicity Manager with New Island Books.

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Triskel Backstage is hosted by Gillian Hennessy, Marketing and Development Manager with Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, and Eimear O'Brien, Director of Lunasa PR.

On our first episode of Triskel Backstage, we speak with Dance Curator Ríonach Ní Néill.

RÍONACH NÍ NEÍLL has over 20 years experience in performance, curation, socially-engaged arts practice and community education. Her work has no fixed borders in its focus on civic dialogue, and has involved collaborations across dance, architecture, film, geography, engineering and health, in Irish and in English. 

Ríonach was a long-time member of Tanztheater Bremen, and performed in Ireland for Finola Cronin, Fearghus Ó Conchúir and Liz Roche amongst others. In 2006 she established her company Ciotóg for which she has choreographed 11 works, and the Macushla Dance Club for +50s, which nurtures creative exchange between older people and the professional dance community. Her curatorial works includes founding Corp_Real | Galway Dance Days, an international platform for multi-disciplinary engagement with dance and social issues, and dance curator of Firkin Crane. She was a founder faculty of the Geragogic arts facilitation course of the Bundesakademie für Kulturelle Bildung, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, and holds a PhD in Geography from UCD. 

Her debut film, The Area, with co-director Joe Lee, won the Dioraphte Jury Prize for Best Film, Cinedans Festival 2014; Best Irish Film at Light Moves Screendance 2014, and Best Short Dance Documentary at Choreoscope International Dance Film Festival 2015. Her second film, I Modh Rúin won Best Irish Short Film, Wexford Documentary Film Festival 2021. Her 2021 film with Joe Lee, Portráidí Criathraigh, documents Sean Ó Flaithearta’s land art and has screened in film festivals worldwide and on Irish TV. 

In the last decade, her focus is on engaging the public with the climate crisis through multi-disciplinary public art projects in Ireland, Sweden and European Capitals of Culture, Galway and Novi Sad.

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Triskel Backstage is hosted by Gillian Hennessy, Marketing and Development Manager with Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, and Eimear O'Brien, Director of Lunasa PR.