CREW BIOGRAPHIES
Richard St. John - SOUND DESIGN
Michael McCabe - MOVEMENT DIRECTOR
ORIGINAL CREATIVE TEAM
Neil Pearson - DIRECTOR / PRODUCER / WRITER
Maria Young - PRODUCTION MANAGER / CO-PRODUCER
NEIL PEARSON
DIRECTOR
Although now living in Wicklow, Neil worked for many years as a stage actor in Cork playing such roles as Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World, Gar Private in Philadelphia Here I Come and Lee in True West by Sam Shepard. Recent directing credits include Attempts on Her Life at the Project Cube; The Trial by Franz Kafka in Smock Alley Theatre; a sixth run of his highly successful version of Bouncers, in a new unpublished script by John Godber at the Everyman Palace, Cork; Mark O’Halloran’s lunchtime comedy Too Much of Nothing at Bewleys Café Theatre; Conditioned at the Axis Theatre Ballymun; the Irish premiere of Arabian Night at the Goethe Institute Dublin as part of Dublin Fringe 2008. This production was chosen to participate in New York Fringe Festival 2009. Neil holds a Masters Degree in Directing for Theatre from UCD and is a tutor in the Drama Department of Bray Institute of Further Education. He has also been Director of the UCD Performance Project for the last two years.
