Deirdre Dwyer Awarded Draíocht’s CCI Residency Award 2020/2021

Deirdre Dwyer adapts and directs theatre for young audiences and also designs sets and costumes for theatre, opera, dance and film. She is from Waterford, where Waterford Youth Arts and Spraoi first introduced her to theatre and design, she then went on to train in UCC (BA in English and Drama and Theatre Studies), at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (MA in Theatre Design, Cardiff) and by apprenticing as Designer on the Rough Magic SEEDS3 programme. She is a member of BrokenCrow theatre company for whom she has created two shows for children, Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, from the book by Rumer Godden, which played as part of Cork Midsummer Festival in City Libraries and The Secret Garden from the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, which premiered in the Everyman and had a national tour October 2017.

She teaches design, and related theories, to students in University College Cork and Mary Immaculate College Limerick.

She has been Theatre Artist in Residence at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick since 2017 and is incoming Theatre Artist in Residence in Garter Lane in Waterford, both of these residencies have focused on the making work for children.

As a designer Deirdre has worked with Rough Magic, Junk Ensemble, Graffiti, Tinderbox, RSC Glasgow, Dublin Youth Theatre, Ulysses Opera Theatre, Linbury Studio LAMDA and Cork Opera House, amongst others.

Draíocht is delighted to continue our partnership with CCI, supporting an artist to travel to Paris to participate in the 2019/2020 Residency Programme, tapping into the resources of the CCI and the city of Paris, as well as having the opportunity to showcase their work on an international stage. The recipients of Draíocht supported residencies are artists working in any discipline with a clear focus on children and/or young people.