OUR TEAM
Joe Devlin
Creative Director
Joe has worked in theatre for over 25 years. He has been Executive Producer of Directions Out since 2014. His productions include Halcyon Days by Deirdre Kinahan, starring Una Crawford-O’Brien and Bryan Murray; Dave at Large, The Kiss and In Search of Mr B.
Previous to that he was Artistic Director and Producer of Focus Theatre for 11 years where he was responsible for more than 100 live productions and events.
He curated an exhibition of photographs and art to mark 50 Years of Focus Theatre for the Dublin Theatre Festival and Produced the 50 Anniversary Events in Association with the Áras an Uachtarain. He has run courses in creativity for over 55s in Tallaght LIbrary and a community art course in Ranelagh Art Centre.
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He runs the Stanislavski Acting Studio now in its 56th year in Dublin and teaches performance part-time for Wolverhampton University at Colaiste Dhulaigh and with Rose Bruford College, London on their Foundation Course in Belfast. He also teaches periodically at Trinity College. He trained at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, The Lyric Theatre, Belfast and at The Bulandra Theatre, Bucharest. He has Won the Becks Ward for New Work and The Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award for New Work at The Focus Theatre.
He has published four books on The Focus Theatre including Stanislavski in Ireland Edited by S. D. Burch and B. McAvera and Five Decades in Focus by J.Devlin, K.Horgan and B.McAvera.
Edgar Rios Marketing&
Admin
Edgar, a rising marketer, is a believer in digital enterprise. He is concentrating on public relations and digital marketing in his last year of college.
After seeing his cousin work in commercial editing, he was intrigued by the mythical world of marketing and had been pursuing his ambition of being a content producer ever since.
Edgar is not a newcomer to the world of marketing; in fact, he developed his first social media marketing strategies when his family established a restaurant in Panama City, where he was born.
Edgar offered to assist certain companies in digital marketing for specific university initiatives after moving to Dublin at the start of 2019.
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Since he is enthusiastic about product insight, marketing, and business analytics, he has contributed devotion and productive outcomes to the businesses he has offered to assist. He is intrigued and motivated by what makes a product successful.
Edgar enjoys spending time at the park or rollerblading around Clontarf with his friends or his partner when he isn't editing videos or composing academic essays.
Paul
Heary
Acting for Camera
Paul Heary graduated with an M.A. in Film Production from University College Dublin in 2008. Since then he has worked in the industry as an editor for many corporate, music video and film projects. He has also worked as a writer, script supervisor and storyboard artist on Screen ireland as well as independent projects.
Heary is especially interested in writing for the screen and also works in videography on a continuous basis. He resides in Rathmines, Dublin and is currently in production on several video projects.
Sinead Hackett Outreach Officer
Sinead Hackett is an actor, theatre facilitator and a theatre maker.
As an actor, she has trained with the Focus theatre studio in Stanislaski techniques and has gone on to perform within the company.
Sinead toured and preformed, The Hen night Ephinany by Jimmy Murphy with the Focus theatre and Sinead has also devised with company members of the Focus theatre, where she and the team created, preformed and toured in the production of 7 Deadly sins.
Sinead has acted with many other theatre companies such as the Abbey theatre, Fibin Theatre Company and the Townhall Theatre Galway to name a few.
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As a facilitator, Sinead currently works with Arts and Disability. Sinead has facilitated with Youth theatres, prisons, schools, and worked with many theatre companies. Sinead is on the board of facilitators with the Abbey Outreach department. She was the outreach coordinator for the Focus Theatre and currently holds the same position for Directions Out theatre company.
Through her facilitation work Sinead has created large scale theatre pieces and shows for varoius project.
Teagasc: Rural life - 1916 commerations - The evictions.
The people of Galway project-Townhall theatre-I am Galway.
7 Deadly sins-Focus Theatre. Bored in Belmullet-Aras Inis Gluaire.
Simon Thompson Mask Training Facilitator
Simon is a performer, director and teacher, he began clowning as a boy but later he took it seriously and trained with LeCoq, and Gaulier. Along with being a practising artist, he is currently a Lecturer on the M.A. Festive Arts @ U.L and also researching for a PhD (A Creative Pedagogy using Mask and Clown).
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After years of touring with circus’s, festivals and a variety of theatre companies, in 2014 Simon began to write a Clown Trilogy to be performed as three separate 1hr shows. Part 1 “Clown Noir, This is me” was first up. Then in 2015 Part 2 “Peines d'amour perdues” an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labours Lost”, and finally in 2016 “Nose Business”. Some of his more recent projects include a metaphysical mask exploration of Australian Indigenous Peoples Stories; entitled “Altjeringa” performed by Lucy Dawson as a gestural etude at the Irish World Academy.
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If you want to catch him live on stage, he’s touring a clown adaptation of “The Millers Tale” and also “Lifted Up” a full-mask performance that highlights the difficulties of sensory overload in adults who are diagnosed with A.S.D.