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Meet Draíocht's Team

Draíocht Executive

Sarah Beirne / Children & Youth Arts Officer
01-809 8029
sarah@draiocht.ie

Emma Áine O'Leary / Marketing & Corporate Hires Coordinator
01-809 8024
emmaaine@draiocht.ie

Philippa Cahill / Box Office Coordinator

01-885 2622
philippa@draiocht.ie


John McCabe / Technical Manager

01-809 8026
john@draiocht.ie


Vacant / Arts Centre Technician
Currently Recruiting

Teresa McCabe / General Manager
01-809 8028
teresa@draiocht.ie


​Emer McGowan / Director

01-809 8027
emer@draiocht.ie


Cliona McNamara / Front of House Manager

01-809 8022
cliona@draiocht.ie


Nicola Murphy / Marketing, Press & PR Manager

01-809 8021
nicola@draiocht.ie


Joshua Sex / Technical Assistant (part time)

01-809 8026
joshua@draiocht.ie

Draíocht Part Time Staff

Paula Quinn / Children & Youth Arts Administrator
01-809 8029
paula@draiocht.ie


Sharon Murphy / Visual Arts Advisor
https://www.sharonmurphy.ie/

Esther Campbell
Andrew Carson
Dave Durnin
Kate Feehily
Eoin Hannaway
Nabilah Mohammad
Eimear Morrissey
Caoimhe Mulholland
Bevin Murphy
Martyna Pawlak
Noah Quinn
Sharon Ramsey
Sanja Todorovic

Draíocht Board

David Branagan
Richard Dixon
Sarah Farrell
Dylan Coburn Gray
Councillor Howard Mahony
Councillor Mary McCamley
Maureen Penrose

Draíocht Board - Biographical Information

Richard Dixon
Director of Draíocht’s Board since November 2019

Richard Dixon was an early volunteer with the community radio station Phoenix FM (which served Dublin 15 in the late 1980s) and Anna Livia FM (a special interest radio station serving Dublin) and those experiences gave him a real taste for the incredible strength when community action and art combine. In 2018, he was a host for Draíocht’s Home Theatre Ireland initiative and greatly enjoyed the experience (and was overwhelmed by the skill shown by the artists in making the event possible). Richard worked for Concern, the international aid organisation, for almost 30 years, mainly in the area of fundraising and communications, before joining the public sector in early 2021. He has regularly spoken at conferences and on the media about charity regulation, transparency and accountability. He served on the boards of ICTR and Charities Institute Ireland, two representative bodies for Irish charities. He lives in Hollystown with his wife and three daughters. He is a true believer in Roald Dahl’s comment – those who don’t believe in magic will never find it!

Dylan Coburn Gray
Director of Draíocht’s Board since November 2021

Dylan Coburn Gray is a theatre maker/writer, performance poet and facilitator. He has worked with us on the Home Project 2018 and on the 2019 Our Place, Our Stories project. He is the Artistic Director of Dublin Fringe Festival’s WEFT programme which supports artists from under represented communities in terms of their practice and infrastructural knowledge. Dylan has had worked produced in the Abbey Theatre and is a key member of Malaprop theatre company. His first plays were written for Dublin Youth Theatre; And Then He Was All in 2010 and Tarot in 2011, the first of which is available through NAYD’s Playshare programme. His play Boys and Girls premiered as part of Dublin Fringe 2013, winning the Fishamble Best New Writing Award. It was also nominated for the Stewart Parker Trust Award, and for the Best Theatre Script Award at the Irish Writers’ Guild Awards (Zebbies). He is a collaborating writer with Malaprop Theatre, winners of the 2015 Spirit of Fringe Commission Award for Love+. He received an Arts Council 16x16 Emerging Artist's Bursary, as part of the 1916 Commemoration Programme and was awarded the Phelim Donlon Playwright’s Bursary & Residency in 2016. He was a participant in Six in the Attic, an Irish Theatre Institute initiative, from 2017 - 2018.

Councillor Howard Mahony
Director of Draíocht’s Board since November 2019

“I am a Councillor on Fingal County Council representing the Castleknock Local Electoral Area since 2016. I am currently Chairman of the Blanchardstown-Mulhuddart/Castleknock/Ongar Area Committee, the Economic, Enterprise and Tourism Strategic Policy Committee, the County Heritage Forum and a number of School Boards of Management. I was a Member of An Garda Siochana attached to the Special Detective Unit in Harcourt Square, Finglas Garda Station and the Garda Band. I am a member of Blanchardstown Brass Band and have been a committed Community Activist for over thirty years”.

Councillor Mary McCamley
Director of Draíocht’s Board since 24 October 2014

Mary McCamley lives in Mulhuddart and is a Councillor with Fingal County Council for the past 3 years working in the Mulhuddart Ward. A public servant all her working life, she retired from Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown (HSE) in 2012 where she spent many years as the Patient Services Officer where studied for a Degree in Health Management (Bsc) from Trinity. She has a keen interest in the arts having grown up adjacent to the Father Matthew Hall, Church Street, Dublin 7, where her father was Volunteer Stage Manager for nearly 40 years and where hundreds of amateur theatrical performances took place. She has been at one time a member of writing groups and has recently taken up art classes (water colours) - both resulting in abysmal attempts. She works as a Councillor in the community and is chair of the Mulhuddart Community Centre and a Board Member of Huntstown Community Centre and also a Board Member of her local Riversdale Community School. As a member of a political party she takes a great interest in political and social issues.

Maureen Penrose
Director of Draíocht’s Board since November 2019.

Maureen has lived in Sheepmoor for the past 40 years. She has always been active in the local community in both a voluntary and a paid capacity. She worked for many years with traveller children. For the past 20 years, up to retirement, Maureen worked in Community Drugs / Addiction Services. She has been involved with many community projects and is currently a Board Member at the Neighbourhood Youth Project, the Dublin 15 Community Drugs Team, Blanchardstown Centre for Independent Living and the Local Drug and Alcohol Task Force. She was Secretary of the Blanchardstown Family Support Network and still is a Peer Group facilitator supporting families. She is Chairperson on the Board of Blanchardstown Community Training Centre. Maureen has four adult children, thirteen grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. She is passionate about community, inclusion, the Arts in all their forms, the underdog. Since her retirement, Maureen has completed the first year of her four-year degree in Drama and Theatre in Trinity College. She thinks Draíocht is well named. Magic!

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