Col is a performance designer, trouble-maker and visual artist | Loitering with intent | Playing pretend | Dublin + NY

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Credits as a director include: Gays Against the Free State! (Smock Alley Boys School, Tiger Dublin Fringe [Sell-Out, Judges Choice Award Nominee), Enemy of the Stars by Wyndham Lewis (Samuel Beckett Theatre Dublin & Morocco, Best Show Nominee, Winner: Best Experimental Theatre at Fes International Theatre Festival), God's Ear by Jenny Schwartz, sell-out at the Director's Debut Festival at the SBT, Trinity College, Dublin: Catastrophe and Ill Seen Ill Said both by Samuel Beckett (SBT, Arts and Technology Research Lab).

Colm worked in stage management for Pan Pan Theatre, (Americanitis, Project Arts Centre, ‘14) and on Dead Centre’s Lippy (The Lír, ’13). Most recently he interned for the Wooster Group in SoHo, New York on The Town Hall Affair. Work experience also includes production assistance for Landmark Production's Howie the Rookie by Mark O' Rowe(Winner, Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award, '13). 

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Colm will publish “Enemy of the Stars in Performance”, with his co-author, Dr. Nicholas Johnson (Trinity College) in the Brill volume Blast at 100, later this year. His poetry and photography have been featured in Crows Nest Zine (Edinburgh), RANT + RAVE Mag (Dublin) and were most recently shown at the Temple Bar Gallery, (February 2016) and S+eambox (March, 2016). Colm is a cameo playwright in Mollie Molumby's Half Light, published by Oberon in Fresh Cuts: A Selection of New Plays from Dublin Fringe Festival 2015 + 2016. 

Colm's has performed in physical theatre, live art, and (reluctantly), even in real plays. His credits include, M. Papini Disappears by Colm Gleeson,  (Arts Technology Research Lab), Half Light (devised by ensemble, written by Mollie Molumby), Stockholm by Bryony Lavery (SBC), The Machinewreckers after Ernst Tollers, dir. Nick Johnson, Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love, dir. Doireann Coady), and Beckett's Rough for Theatre I & II (SBT). 

In his spare time, Colm is learning to dance, couch-surfing and skating. He pays for this bullshit by making coffee at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. He likes punk rock, October and conversation.

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