CREATIVE TEAM

John

Writer

Logan

John Logan received the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic Circle and Drama League awards for his play Red. This play premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in London and at the Golden Theatre on Broadway. Since then Red has had more than 200 productions across the US and has been presented in over 30 countries. In 2013, his play Peter and Alice premiered in London and I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers opened on Broadway. He also cowrote the book for the musical The Last Ship and is the author of more than a dozen other plays including Never the Sinner and Hauptmann.

As a screenwriter, Logan has been three times nominated for the Oscar and has received a Golden Globe, BAFTA and WGA Award.

His film work includes Skyfall Spectre, Hugo, The Aviator, Gladiator Rango, Genius, Coriolanus, Sweeney Todd, The Last Samurai, Any Given Sunday and RKO 281

He also created and produced the television series Penny Dreadful for Showtime.

Emma Jordan Director

Emma is Prime Cut’s Artistic Director and her directing credits for the company include Educating Rita (Lyric Theatre, 2016 & 2017) Stacey Gregg’s multi – award winning Scorch [2015,2016 International Tour 2017] After Miss Julie by Patrick Marber [produced in Association with the MAC & Project Arts Centre 2016]. Yasmina Reza’s The God Of Carnage ( Prime Cut / MAC coproduction 2015), The Conquest of Happiness for Derry-Londonderry City of Culture and European Tour (2013), I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright ( Prime Cut, MAC coproduction 2012), David Harrower’s Blackbird (2011), Owen McCaferty’s Shoot The Crow (2011 & 2012), Fiona Evans‘ Scarborough (2010), Marina Carr’s Woman and Scarecrow (2009) and Denis Kelly’s After The End (2008).

Emma’s acting credits include work with numerous theatre companies including Charabanc, Tinderbox, The Lyric Theatre, Replay, Dubblejoint and Young at Art.

Her producing credits for Prime Cut include Three Tall Women (Assistant Director), The Coronation Voyage, Shopping and Fucking, American Bufalo, Macbeth, The Chance, After Darwin, The Mercy Seat, Ashes To Ashes, A Number, Cold Comfort, The Trestle At Pope Lick Creek, Scenes From The Big Picture, Owen McCaferty’s version of Antigone, Vincent River, The Chilean Trilogy and most recently Jack Thorne’s Mydidae

In 2014 Emma was the recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Cultural Entrepreneurship Breakthrough Award and in 2015 the Spirit of Festival Award at the Belfast International Arts Festival.

Rhiann Jefrey Assistant Director

Rhiann is a Drama graduate from Queen's University. After graduating in 2014, Rhiann was awarded a BBC Performing Arts Fellowship and completed a year working with Prime cut as a director, under the mentorship of Emma Jordan. Rhiann assisted Jordan on God of Carnage, After Miss Julie and most recently, on Red. Rhiann also directed her first professional production Mydidae by Jack Thorne in 2015 for the company.

Other directing credits include; Her Naked Skin by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Bash Plays by Neil Labute and a modern, all-female production of Macbeth for Queen's 2nd year Drama students. Rhiann is currently directing a new play by Jane Coyle Both Sides that will be performed in the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival.

Ciaran Bagnell Set & LX Designer

Ciaran trained at the Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardif.

Lyric set & lighting design: White Star of North. Lighting design: Three Sisters, St. Joan, Pentecost (Winner of Irish Times Theatre award for Best Lighting Design) Philadelphia, here I come! The Little Prince and Pump Girl.

Other lighting & set designs include: The Train, Observe the Sons of Ulster marching towards the Somme (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Ashes, Educating Rita, Two, A view from the Bridge, Love Story, Twelfth Night, Piaf, Of Mice and Men, The Glass Menagerie, Habeas Corpus, Oleanna (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); A Christmas Treasure Island, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella (Hull Truck); Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe, London); Singin’ in the Rain (UK Tour); Othello (RSC, Stratford upon Avon); Lally the Scut (MAC, Belfast); The God of Carnage, Villa, Discurso, Tejas Verdes (Primecut, The MAC, Belfast); Conquest of Happiness (Primecut Productions, Olympic Stadium, Sarajevo); Shoot the Crow (Opera House, Belfast); Snookered (Bush Theatre, London); The Killing of Sister George (Arts Theatre, London); A Slight Ache and Landscape (Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre London).

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.

Carl Kennedy Composer/Sound Designer

Carl trained at Academy of Sound in Dublin. He has worked on over one hundred theatre productions, working with venues and companies including The Lyric Theatre, Prime Cut Productions, The Abbey, The Gaiety, Decadent, ANU Productions, HOME Manchester, Fishamble, Theatre Lovett, HotForTheatre, Rough Magic, Guna Nua, Loose Canon, Peer to Peer, Siren, Broken Crow, Randolf SD and Theatre Makers. He has been nominated three times for the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Sound Design.

He also composes music and sound design for TV and video games. Game titles include Curious George, Curious about Shapes and Colors, Jelly Jumble, Too Many Teddies, Dino Dog and Leonardo and His Cat. TV credits include sound design for 16 letters (Independent Pictures/RTE) and SFX editing and foley recording for Centenary (RTE).

Dylan Quinn Choreographer

Dylan Quinn and has been working as a Choreographer, Dance Artist and facilitator for over 20 years. In 2009 he established Dylan Quinn Dance Theatre (DQDT) in his native Enniskillen and has created numerous company performances as well as several commissioned productions for companies such as Maiden Voyage Dance Company, Ludus Dance, DanceXchange and Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Dylan has presented work across the UK, Ireland and Internationally including regularly at The MAC Belfast. He has presented recent productions as part of Dublin Dance Festival, Commencez! Paris Beckett 16 and Instances Festival France.

Dylan performed in Catastrophe directed by Adrian Dunbar in Commencez! Paris Beckett 16 and during the Enniskillen Happy Days Festival 2015, Dylan has performed and or worked with a range of actors and artists including visual artist Paddy Mc Cann and actors Stanley Townsend, Orla Charleton, Frank Mc Cusker and Dan Gordon. Dylan has extensive experience of working within community settings and particularly within a peace and conflict context. Dylan was recently Movement Director for Three Sisters at The Lyric Directed by Selina Cartmell in 2016.

Caoileann is a Belfast-based theatremaker, writer and dramaturg. She has worked with the Lyric Theatre, Prime Cut Productions, Accidental Theatre, Belfast Children's Festival, Belfast International Arts Festival, The Theatre Chipping Norton, The Dukes Lancaster and Creation Theatre (Oxford). She has a PhD on the theatre of Stewart Parker, and teaches Drama and Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) at Queen's.