Em Ó Ceallaigh Awarded Draíocht’s CCI Residency Award 2024/2025

Congratulations to theatre-maker Em Ó Ceallaigh who is the 8th and latest Draíocht recipient of a CCI Residency Award (2024/2025), one of 44 Artist Awards announced today by our partners in Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris.

Draíocht is delighted to continue our partnership with CCI (one of 22 partnering organisations), supporting an artist to travel to Paris to participate in the 2024/2025 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.

To date, 7 artists have been awarded a Draíocht Supported Residency; theatre makers Mary Lou McCarthy and Dan Colley (2018/2019); writer and theatre maker Sian Ní Mhuirí (2019/2020), theatre artist Deirdre Dwyer (2020/2021), writer Liam McCarthy (2021/2022), writer & theatre maker Paul Curley (2022/2023) and dancer, performance-maker and educator Monica Muñoz (2023-2024).

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I’m a theatre-maker (facilitator, director, dramaturg, and devisor). I was the Artistic Director of theatre company, Super Paua (2022-2023) and previously was the Engagement Director, creating art for young people and development opportunities for artists. I create contemporary, humorous and multilingual work with the community and audience at the heart. I’m interested in shame, and the stories we tell about it that limit us. I play with structure and form to find interesting journeys.

Recent work: a bursary from the Arts Council Ireland to develop my dramaturgy practice 2023-2024; An Chos Eile, axis:Ballymun November 2024 (director and some dramaturgy); curator for Schöne Aussicht 2024, international arts festival for young people in Germany; Facilitation Programme for Artists, with Riverbank Arts Centre, to create and run creative workshops with science (programme creator); Whodunnit? The Great Art Robbery!, Dublin and Melbourne Fringe Festival 2022 (actor/facilitator for online whodunnit); Super Paua Stories 2022-2023, multilingual podcast online (director, dramaturg and producer).

As Gaeilge:
Is amharclannóir mé (éascaitheoir, stiúrthóir, dramaturg, agus devisor). Ba stiúrthóir ealaíne mé don chompántas amharclannaíochta Super Paua (2022-2023), ag crúthú ealaíon do dhaoine óga agus deiseanna forbartha d’ealaíontóirí. Cruthaím ealaín nua aimseartha, ilteangach agus greannmhar leis an bpobal agus leis an lucht féachana sa chroílár. Tá suim agam i náire, agus na scéalta á insint fúithi. Bím ag súgradh le structúr agus foirm chun aistir siumiúla a aimsiú.

Obair le déanaí: Sparánacht ón gComhairle Ealaíon chun mo shaothar dramaturgy a fhorbairt 2023-2024; An Chos Eile, axis: Ballymun Mí na Samhna 2024 (stiúrthóir
ar dhráma aiteach); coimeádaí le haghaidh Schöne Aussicht 2024, féile ealaíon idirnáisiúnta sa Ghearmáin; Clár éascú d’ealaíontoirí 2024, le Riverbank Arts Centre, chun ceardlanna a cruthú agus a dhéanamh idir na healaíona agus eolaíocht (deantóir clár); Whodunnit? The Great Art Robbery!, Dublin agus Melbourne Fringe Festival 2022 (aisteoir/éascaitheoir, agus forbairt ar Whodunnit do dhaoine óga ar líne); Scéalta Super Paua/Super Paua Stories 2022-2023, podchraoladh ar líne saor in aisce i gcoimhoibriú le axis: Ballymun agus Riverbank Arts Centre (stiúrthoir, dramaturg agus léiritheoir).