CREATIVE TEAM

PAUL WALKER (Writer, Director) was born and bred in Dublin… Drimnagh in fact… the only place in Europe that has a Castle with its original moat around it (They filmed The Tudors there). Paul’s stage work includes site specific works Adrenalin, an homage to the seventies and co-writing  God’s Grace, an eerie Christmas fable both for Semper Fi Ireland. Other stage works include the smash hit comedies of Didi’s Big Day and Costa Lads and Cloudy Christmas, a performance play for Children. He recently wrote the multi award winning drama STARDUST which won 4 IFTAS (Irish Oscars). He also writes for the award winning series The Clinic and is currently developing two series, one for Parallel Films and one for Granada Television. He is also developing some new site specific work for Semper Fi Ireland, a one man show and has just developed a pre-teen movie script. Acting work includes Richard the Third, Costa Lads, Frugal Comforts, Tabloid Man, Rebel Heart amongst others. Paul is delighted to be working with IAC – the first of many he hopes- and having his American premiere of Ladies and Gents in Central Park, New York.

KARL SHIELS (Original Direction) Acting: Theatre: Romeo and Juliet (Abbey), Hue and Cry (Bewleys, Oran Mór, Glasgow), The Pride of Parnell Street ( Tricycle, London, Tivoli), Howie the Rookie (Intrntl tour), Oedipus Loves You (Smock Alley), Sleeping Beauty (Helix), Barbaric Comedies, HenrylVpartl, Twenty Grand, Beauty In a Broken Place, At- Swim-Two-Birds, Howie the Rookie,( Abbey and Peacock), Duck (Royal Court, UK tour, Peacock), Salomé (Gate), The Shadow of a Gunman (Lyric, Belfast), Greek, Quartet, Muller’s Medea, Obituary, Early Morning, This Lime Tree Bower, The Duchess of Malfi, Massacre @ Paris, Fully Recovered, The Spanish Tragedy (Project), Hamlet, Venus and Adonis (Beckett Centre), Comedians (Winner of Best Actor Dublin Theatre Festival 1999). Film/TV: Eden, W.C, Prosperity, Batman Begins, Intermission, Spin The Bottle, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Veronica Guerin, Clubbing, Freaky Deaky 10/1, Meeting Che Guevera and The Man from Maybury Hill, Daybreak, Capital Letters (Nominated Best Actor IFTA’s 2002), Doctors, Attachments, Getting Close, Waiting for Dublin, Virtues of a Sinner, The Anarchic Hand Affair, The Clinic, Private Lives, Any Time Now, On Home Ground, Camera Cafe. Directing credits include: Three Tall Women, Topdog/Underdog (Tall Tales), Drapes, Eggshell, Bernard Opens Up (Fishamble), Gargarin Way (Island), The Pitchfork Disney and Fallen (Raw Image), Adrenalin, God’s Grace, Ladies and Gents, Ten, Slaughter, Breakfast with Versace, Within 24hrs, Another 24hrs, Within 24 hrs of Dance, Conversation with a Cupboard Man and Butterflies for Semper Fi (Ireland). Karl is the Artistic Director with Semper Fi (Ireland).

CHRIS RUMERY (Costume Design) Previous costume design for productions include: (Rus)h director Kristen Martin, A Hard Heart director Will Pomerantz, Rock Doves at the Irish Art Center with director Ian McElhinney, As You Like It at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, director Kurt Rhoads; 365/Days 365/Plays, director Shira Milikowsk; Food for Fish, director Alexis Poledouris; The Scams of Scapin, director Chris O’Connor; Les Bourgeois Avant-Gardes, director Emma Griffin; and A Lie of the Mind, director Michael Sexton. She received her MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

SINÉAD MC KENNA (Lighting Designer) Sinéads’ previous work with Semper Fi includes God’s Grace, Adrenalin and Ladies and Gents for which she won the Irish Theatre Award for ‘Best Lighting Design’. Other recent designs include Attempts on her life, Dream of Autumn and Improbable Frequency for Rough Magic, and she is currently in production with Life is a Dream, Pentecost and Spokesong all for Rough Magic. Other recent work includes Blackbird and Last Days of The Celtic Tiger (Landmark), Circus (Barabbus), Private Lives (The Gate Theatre) and Howie The Rookie and Finders Keepers (The Abbey). Other designs include Macbeth, Philadelphia Here I Come, Othello and How Many Miles to Babylon (Second Age), Skindeep (Guna Nua)-Nominated Best Lighting Design Irish Theatre Awards, Shooting Gallery (Bedrock), The Snow Queen and Merry Christmas Betty Ford (Lyric Theatre), The Woman who Walked into Doors  (Upbeat Productions) and Diarmaid and Grainne for Passion Machine.
Dance and Opera designs include Does she take Sugar for Jean Butler, Swept (CoisCeim), As a Matter of Fact (Dance Theatre of Ireland) and La Boheme for Co-Opera.

IVAN BIRTHISTLE (Sound Designer/Composer) has been composing for theatre for several years, mostly as part of an ongoing collaborative partnership with Vincent Doherty. Past work includes: For Semper Fi: Ladies and Gents, God’s Grace, Adrenalin and Slaughter by Paul Walker; Ten by Eugene O’Brien; Butterflies by Ian McEwan; Breakfast With Versace devised and Within 24 Hours of Dance with John Scott; For The Abbey Theatre, Dublin: Playboy of the Western World by Roddy Doyle and Bisi Adigun, Saved by Edward Bond, Alice Trilogy by Tom Murphy and True West by Sam Shepard.  For Bedrock:Roberto Zucco, This is Not a Life, Beckett’s Ghosts, Shooting Gallery, Far Away and The Massacre @ Paris.  For Fishamble: Noah and the Tower Flower, The Gist of It, Monged and Tadgh Stray Wandered In.  Other sound designs include: Miss Julie and Blackbird (Landmark Productions); Fewer Emergencies  (Randolf S.D); Honour (B’spoke); Dancing at Lughnasa; Much Ado About Nothing; Shadow of a Gunman and True West (The Lyric); The Dilemma of a Ghost and The Kings of the Kilburn High Road (Arambe); Does She Take Sugar (Jean Butler and the Project Arts Centre); Hollow Ground and Liberty West (CoisCeim); The White Piece (I.M.D.T); Luca (Barrabas); An Image of the Rose (Whiplash); No Messin’ With The Monkeys by Roddy Doyle (The Ark).

PAUL DAVIS – CALLERI CASTING (Casting Director) With James Calleri, Erica Jensen and Natasha Schwartz, Paul casts for a variety of theater, TV and film projects. Theater: Fuerzabruta, The Flea, The Long Wharf, New Georges (God’s Ear) , StageFarm (U.S. Drag) , SPF, Classic Stage Company (New Jerusalem, The Seagull), New York Stage & Film, Epic Theater Ensemble (Beauty on the Vine, A Heard Heart).  TV: Lipstick Jungle Film: upcoming indies Upstate, Armless, Peter & Vandy and Ready? OK!, as well as the short films George and Nick in Time (Sundance ’07).

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