CREATIVE TEAM

Neil Martin

Composer & Sound Designer

Belfast-born Neil Martin is a composer and musician with an international reputation, who enjoys a most varied and rewarding career encompassing dance, opera, theatre, film, television, radio, concert hall and studio. Recent compositions include “Sweeney”, for solo traditional singer, narrator and orchestra, based on Seamus Heaney’s “Sweeney Astray”. Other significant works include a score for Oscar Wilde’s “De Profundis”; an octet, “The Helping Hand”; along with librettist Glenn Patterson -“Long Story Short: The Belfast Opera” and the choral symphony “OSSA”. A cellist and an uilleann piper, he has collaborated with many leading artists, from Liam O'Flynn, Bryn Terfel, Sam Shepard, Christy Moore, Stephen Rea, Jean Butler and Barry Douglas to the LSO, RPO and all the principle orchestras in Ireland. Neil has scored music for plays on Broadway, in the West End and in Europe, and has contributed to more than a hundred albums. Performance venues range from Carnegie Hall to the Palazzo

Vecchio and his ground-breaking work with the West Ocean String Quartet has been lauded globally, and beyond – all of the quartet’s albums have been played aboard the International Space Station.

Enda Kenny

Costume Designer

Enda has worked in costume departments in theatre and film for the last 15 years.

He works as a Costume Designer, Prop Costume Maker, Textile Artist and Milliner. He has designed for the Lyric on a number of occasions and created work for many UK based theatres including ENO, NI Opera, ROH Covent Garden, National Theatre London and the Lyceum Theatre London to name a few. Previously Enda has worked with Prime Cut Productions as Costume Designer on Scorch

Previous TV and film work includes Fortitude Season 2, Emerald City, Game of Thrones, Your Highness, The Golden Compass and King Arthur.

Fionnuala Kennedy Assistant Director

Fionnuala is a writer/director from Belfast. Her directing credits include: Reset (The MAC Belfast); Entitled: The Assessment (An Culturlann); Entitled and Hostel (Macha Productions); My Big Fat Belfast Christmas and Last Orders at the Rough Diamond by Caroline Curran & Julie Maxwell (Theatre at the Mill); The Place Between (Prime Cut Productions); Laser Lunacy, Shankill Stories, Collecting Cultures, and Wonderwall (Kabosh).

Her writing credits include: Hostel (Macha Productions/Kabosh); Entitled (Macha Productions); Hatchet (Terranova Theatre Company); Closer (Replay Theatre Company).

Fionnuala is currently under commission with Prime Cut Productions creating a play about young people in the care system in Northern Ireland.

Fionnuala is an artist on Prime Cut Productions’ Reveal Programme. She is delighted to be working on Lovers, for the opportunity to work on a Brian Friel play with acclaimed director Emma Jordan.