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Associate Producer for the Pan Pan Platform with Dublin Fringe in 2022-2025. Since joining the Platform, Lisa has supported 9 shows through to full production as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival.
Constriction
by Mai Ishikawa
A Japanese bullet train. A woman. And a baby hatch.
Inside the train, we hear two voices talking about a woman who headed West to give up her baby. Sometimes serious, sometimes playful, they discuss the implications. But the more they talk, it seems, the less there is to say. And who are they, really? This experimental work is a surreal exploration of motherhood and identity, using sound and movement to explore the pain of facing reality.
Written by a poet-and-translator who has lived in three different countries, the piece also transcends cultural boundaries; she draws inspiration from her Japanese heritage while delving deep into a universal theme.
The Lir, Studio 2, September 7th-14th 2025.
Nominated for the Radical Spirit Award and the Making It Happen Award 2025.
Aliens
by Curious Industries
I didn’t like it here at first. I didn’t like anything.
Join a real-life mother and daughter on a road trip from Donegal to southern Italy, as they weave their personal stories with those of Italian immigrants in Northern Ireland and present-day migrants, activists, and strangers meet along the way. Blending performance, video, and live music, this show invites you to explore what it means to live between countries, generations, and identities - a meditation on inheritance, migration, and those who live in between: the aliens
Smock Alley Theatre - Main Space, September 8th-10th 2025.
Winner of the Beyond Borders Award 2025.
Beasts
by Morgan Savidan and Sasha Carberry Sharma
Following the death of Sam’s grandmother, Max and Sam decide to go on a “trip.” They’re hoping for a relaxing time, but little do they know their innocent adventure is going to get out of control. Through ancestral warnings, blood thirsty heroines and extremely questionable yet charismatic multi-headed demons. Will they finally find what they’ve been searching for?
BEASTS asks us the questions, where is home when it’s lost, when it’s taken from you, when it’s just a memory?
Smock Alley Theatre - Patrick Sutton Studio, September 17th-21st 2024.
Ololufé
by Arinola Thaeatre
Chuckwudi and Ola are getting married. And you are invited.
This immersive theatre experience drops you in the center of the dramatic spectacle that is a Nigerian wedding. As dawn breaks on their wedding day the Nigerian-Irish bride and groom navigate all the pitfalls weddings can bring, parental pressures, love, stress, betrayal and most importantly, food.
No worries about upstaging the bride. She's Nigerian.
The Lir - Studio 2, September 7th-11th 2024.
Nominated for Best Performer Award 2024
King of All Birds
by Martha Knight
We’re obsessed with seeing ourselves from above. We display aerial photos of our homes, we gather in our masses to watch men fly, and, every couple of hundred years, we crown a king.
This is a fresh and playful trad gig for voice and vocoder. It picks apart our shared history with the sky: the years when it remained untouched, those first ventures into it, and now, our endless climbing: up, and up, and up.
Project Arts Centre, September 11th-16th 2023.
Winner of the George Fitzmaurice Award 2023.
Clash at the Quays
by Ahmed. with Love
Live music meets the whacky world of professional wrestling. Join some of Ireland's finest musicians; Ahmed, With Love., KhakiKid, Efé, Negro Impacto, Curtisy and Julia Louise Knifefist, for an all-out musical brawl inside the squared circle of the wrestling ring for this one-night-only experience!
The Complex Dublin, September 16th 2023.
Winner of the Judges Choice Award 2023.
Cooking the Vegan Salmon of Knowledge
by James Ireland
This isn’t the first ecological catastrophe we’ve created. 10,000 years ago, human societies across the world changed from hunter-gathering to agricultural lifestyles. We’d hunted our food off the face of the earth. We’re making another catastrophe now.
Join the artist as they cook a vegan version of smoked salmon, using the ingredients to have a conversation about the history of food, and human impact on the environment in deep time. With live cooking and live music.
The New Theatre, September 15th-17th 2022.
Winner of the Axis Green Art Award 2022.
The Birdwatcher’s Trip to Alpha Centauri
by Colm Higgins
Hymns for the void and interplanetary space travel as told by two weirdos in silly hats.
It is 1000 years since the generation ships left the Earth. 700 people set off for Alpha Centauri. Now only two remain. They will tell the story of the trip and create holy images and music for the new world.
A sci-fi film with live experimental space music from strange instruments, costumes of the future, and way too much citrus fruit.
The Fumbally Stables, September 20th and 21st 2022.