Malaprop: HOTHOUSE

Peter's theatre credits include Theatre for One (Landmark Productions), Multiple Casualty Incident (The Yard Theatre), Ulysses (Jermyn Street Theatre), Moon Licks (Paines Plough), Before You Say Anything (Malaprop), Much Ado About Nothing (Rough Magic), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Rough Magic), Everything Not Saved (Malaprop Theatre Co), Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Rough Magic), The Water Orchard (Collapsing Horse), Outlying Islands (Sugarglass Theatre), and Far Away From Me (The Ark). 

Film/TV credits include Bad Sisters (Apple TV), The Vanishing Triangle (Virgin Media), Falling for the Life of Alex Whelan (RTÉ), Flora & Son (Apple TV), and Fair City (RTÉ).

Thommas has most recently filmed a role in Lisa McGee’s How To Get To Heaven From Belfast directed by Michael Lennox and George Kane and the role of Dallan in Showkids, directed by Hugh O’Conor for Deadpan Pictures, and played Billy in season 2 of BAFTA nominated The Dry, directed by Paddy Breathnach for Element Pictures & Britbox. Just prior he filmed the role of Jed alongside Robert Glenister in The Night Caller directed by Diarmuid Goggins for Story Films & Channel 5. 

Last year, the Dublin International Film Festival nominated him for the Aer Lingus Discovery Award for rising talent. 

Further recent credits include the final season of Derry Girls; the role of Francis ‘Fudge’ Flynn alongside Ciarán Hinds and Charlie Cox in Kin, directed by Diarmuid Goggins; and the part of Kevin alongside Angeline Ball and Victoria Smurfit in Rachel Carey’s Screen Ireland-backed feature Deadly Cuts. Thommas also played the role of Bobby 'Butsy’ Butler in Darklands, directed by Mark O'Connor for Virgin Media 1, and the role of Bertie Mulgrew in Deadpan Pictures’ 6-part period television drama series Dead Still, directed by Imogen Murphy. 

Stage credits include Roddy Doyle’s The Giggler Treatment (The Ark), Dublin Will Show You How (Abbey Theatre), and his one-man show The Fattest Dancer at St. Bernadette's for which he received excellent reviews. 

Thommas has experience in musical theatre and dance. He holds an associate diploma from Guildhall, London (ATCL), and is a skilled character voice-over artist.

Bláithín (she/they) most recently played the role of Enda in Amelia, by Dee Roycroft at Project Arts Centre for Dublin Fringe Festival. Recent theatre credits include the role of Rose in Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, directed by Josie Rourke at the National Theatre, London; and Hothouse, directed by Claire O’Reilly for Malaprop Theatre Co. 

Bláithín won Best Supporting Actress at the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards (June 2022) for their performance in Nancy Harris’s Our New Girl directed by Annabelle Comyn for the Gate Theatre, and for their role as Mary (Masha) in Thomas Kilroy’s The Seagull (after Chekhov) directed by Garry Hynes for Druid Theatre Co. 

Further credits include the role of the Outsider in The Way Out directed by Suri Krishnamma as part of the Performance Live collaboration between the BBC, Arts Council England, and BAC; Penance directed by Maurice Sweeney for Channel 5; Normal People directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald; Carys Coburn’s Verity Bargate Award-winning play Citysong, directed by Caitriona McLaughlin for the Abbey Theatre, the Soho Theatre London, and the Galway International Arts Festival (2019).

Maeve is an actor, theatre-maker, and founding member of Malaprop Theatre. Maeve most recently appeared in Guest Host Stranger Ghost by Kate Heffernan for Dublin Theatre Festival, Hothouse directed by Claire O’Reilly for Malaprop Theatre, and Club Salty directed by Philip McMahon and Jennifer Jennings for THISISPOPBABY. Maeve is a 2024 Associate Artist for THISISPOPBABY. 

Further theatre credits include The Boy Who Never Was (Brokentalkers); the role of Dora in Branden Jacobs-Jenkin's An Octoroon directed by Anthony Simpson-Pike at the Abbey Theatre, for which she was nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress; Where Sat the Lovers, Before You Say Anything, LOVE+, Everything Not Saved, Jericho (Malaprop Theatre, written by Carys D. Coburn directed by Claire O'Reilly); All Honey (Project Arts Centre); Outlying Islands (Sugarglass Theatre); Sounds of Wood on Muscle (Bram Stoker Festival); The Aenied (Dublin Fringe Festival); and Boys & Girls (59E59).

Voice credits include the RTÉ Documentary series One Day, and BBC Radio's Drama Faith, Hope, and Glory written by Roy Williams and directed by Pat Crumper. Screen credits include the RTÉ Storyland production of Everything Not Saved, Ripper Street, and Rebecca's Boyfriend.

Ebby’s theatre credits include: Afterwards by Janet Moran; directed by Conall Morrison and Janet Moran, for which she was nominated for Best Performance at the 2024 Dublin Fringe Festival; The Quare Fellow by Brendan Behan directed by Tom Creed (Abbey Theatre), and Hothouse; directed by Claire O’Reilly (Malaprop Theatre Co). Ebby is a recent graduate of The Lir Academy, Ireland’s National Academy of Dramatic Arts. 

Some highlights of her performances while studying were: Bulrusher in Bulrusher by Eisa Davis; Perdita in The Winters’ Tale by Shakespeare; and Bex in Hungry by Chris Bush.

Carys D. Coburn was the winner of the Verity Bargate Award 2017 for Citysong, co-produced by Soho Theatre, the Abbey Theatre, and the Galway International Arts Festival. Other plays include Absent the Wrong (Best Production at Dublin Fringe 2022) and Hothouse (Best Production at Dublin Fringe 2023). One of the founders of Malaprop Theatre Co., their work together won acclaim for its distinctive blend of nerdiness and tenderness. Short work includes Me, Sara for the Abbey’s Priming the Canon, Alasialias for Paines Plough’s Come to Where I’m From, and Our Mother, My Daughters for Draíocht Blanchardstown’s HOME Theatre. Working with young people is a major strand of their practice; they are the author of Ask Too Much of Me for the NYT ensemble (Peacock Theatre 2019); this is a room…, for Dublin Youth Theatre (Dublin Theatre Festival 2017). They are currently under commission to write HandToMouthToMouthToHand for the National Theatre’s Connections program. They are the librettist, along with Annemarie NíChuirreáin, of Michael Gallen’s opera Elsewhere, which premiered on the Abbey stage in 2021, and the sole librettist of Horse Ape Bird, an INO and Music Generation cocommission, by David Coonan. They contributed text to THISISPOPBABY’s Wake. They facilitated the inaugural WEFT Studio Group, a peer mentorship and support network for Black artists and artists of color more broadly.

Claire is an Irish theatre director based between London and Dublin. She is the director of the award-winning, internationally touring, new work collective Malaprop Theatre. Upcoming projects include Emma adapted by Kate Hamill (Abbey Theatre 2024). Recent projects include Amelia by Dee Roycroft (Dublin Theatre Festival 2024), Little Deaths by Amy Powell Yeates (Summerhall 2024), Talking About the Fire by Chris Thorpe (Royal Court 2023), Hothouse (Malaprop Theatre, Dublin Fringe 2023, winner of Best Production at Dublin Fringe Awards), This Solution by Shaun Dunne (Dublin Theatre Festival 2023), A Family Business by Chris Thorpe (Staatstheater Mainz 2022), Accents by Emmet Kirwan (Dublin Fringe 2022), Where Sat the Lovers by Carys Coburn (Dublin Fringe 2021). 

Associate director credits include A Streetcar Named Desire (dir. Rebecca Frecknall, Phoenix Theatre 2023), Dr. Semmelweis (dir. Tom Morris, Harold Pinter 2023). Assistant director credits include Uncle Vanya (Sonia Friedman Productions 2020) and Translations (Royal National Theatre 2019), both dir. Ian Rickson. 

Claire is a former Resident Director at the Abbey Theatre (2022-2023). She has a Master’s in Drama Directing from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (2019) and is a graduate of Film and Theatre at Trinity College Dublin (2015).

Molly O’Cathain is a set and costume designer working across theatre, dance, and opera. She is a founding member and company designer for the award-winning Malaprop Theatre Co., her designs including Hothouse, Where Sat the Lovers, Before You Say Anything, Everything Not Saved, BlackCatfishMusketeer, and LOVE+.

Molly’s other credits include The Magic Flute (Sofia Opera, Bulgaria), L'Olimpiade (Royal Opera House and Irish National Opera), Bajazet (Royal Opera House and Irish National Opera), An Octoroon (Abbey Theatre), Constellations (Gate Theatre), The Wrens (Dan Colley/Draíocht Arts Centre), Haunted and If These Wigs Could Talk (THISISPOPBABY), The Realistic Joneses (Dublin Theatre Festival and Laguna Playhouse, California), The Playboy of the Western World (Dublin Theatre Festival, the Gaiety Theatre, and Lyric Belfast), To the Lighthouse (Everyman/Hatch Productions), It Was Easy (in the end) (THEATREclub/Abbey Theatre), Absent the Wrong and Ask Too Much of Me (Peacock Theatre), Love Songs (Philip Connaughton Dance), and Minseach (Sibéal Davitt Dance).

John is an alumnus of Dublin Youth Theatre and a founding member of Malaprop Theatre Co.

Lighting credits include Hothouse, Where Sat the Lovers, Everything Not Saved, Jericho, BlackCatfishMusketeer, and LOVE+ (Malaprop); Palimpsest (David Bolger/Coisceim); This Solution (Shaun Dunne); Navy Blue (Oona Doherty); Mosh (Rachel Ní Bhraonain); Tiny Plays 24/7, Tiny Plays For A Brighter Future (Fishamble); Venus in Furs (Rough Magic SEEDS); The Roaring Banshees (Devious Theatre Co.); We Can’t Have Monkeys in the House (Sad Strippers); Bulrusher, The Three Sisters, The Laramie Project, and Demons (Lir Academy); and The Egg Is A Lonely Hunter (Hannah Mamalis).

Caoimhe is a freelance theatre and dance producer, based in Dublin, Ireland. Caoimhe is an Associate Producer with Field:Arts and Company Producer with both Malaprop Theatre and Jess Rowell Dance. Selected Producing credits include Amelia by Dee Roycroft (Dublin Theatre Festival 2024), Malaprop’s Hothouse (Dublin Fringe 2023) and Jess Rowell’s Making Waves (National Tour 2024). Upcoming credits include the world premiere of Other Worlds by Jess Rowell and an Irish national tour of Accents by Emmet Kirwan in early 2025. 

In 2023 Caoimhe participated in Branar's Meitheal initiative as Emerging Producer in Residence at the Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge. Previous to this, she lived and worked in Toronto, Canada (2018-2022) where she most recently held the position of People & Operations Manager with Luminato Festival. Before moving to Canada, Caoimhe worked primarily as a freelance stage manager with theatres and companies in Dublin such as The Gate Theatre, Smock Alley Theatre, and Fishamble. She is a graduate of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin.

Anna Clock is a composer and sound artist. Their work spans theatre, film, radio, installation, written texts, and live music. They are currently pursuing a funded practice-based PhD with Royal Holloway University and the Science Museum Group in the UK exploring how to use sound and music in science and exhibitory contexts, focussing on how we listen to outer space, sonifying the extra-terrestrial and Martian acoustics. Recent theatre work includes Echo (Lift Festival 2024); Duchess of Malfi (Shakespeare’s Globe); Faith Healer, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Lyric Hammersmith); Jason Medea Medley (Staatsschauspiel Dresden); Graceland (Royal Court Theatre); A Family Business (China Plate Theatre/Staatstheater Mainz); Electric Rosary (Manchester Royal Exchange); Crave (Chichester Festival Theatre); Speak Softly, Go Far (Digital; Abbey Theatre); Mystery Trip (Nigel & Louise); I Wanna Be Yours (Paines Plough/Tamasha/UK Tour/Bush Theatre); Not F**kin’ Sorry, Shuck ‘n’ Jive, Soft Animals, Fabric (Soho Theatre); Groove, Looking Forward (BAC); Mary & Maria (Camden People’s Theatre). They have also presented work at Wellcome Collection, Harrow & Wealdstone Library, V & A Museum, Museum of Science and Industry, Copeland Gallery, Cooper Gallery, and a range of site specific locations across Europe. Their audio works have been played on BBC Radio 4, Radio 3, Resonance FM and RTÉ Lyric radio.

They were lead artist for the South London wing of ‘Hello Stranger’, the National Exhibition project for The Prague Quadrennial 2023.

Terysa Malootian's credits include: New York City Gas, Other People’s Dead Dads, Richard III, Merry Wives of Windsor, Phantom Tollbooth, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Unicorn Girl (stage manager); The Rat Trap, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and Life Span of a Fact, Windfall, Camelot, and Little Women (assistant stage manager); The Grift (production stage manager); Ragtime, Becoming Dr. Ruth, The Last Five Years, The Half-Light, A Christmas Carol, and Ben Butler (production assistant).

Sara Gannon is a freelance stage manager for theatre and events, working in the arts for the past 8 years. She has previously stage managed work for leading Irish theatre companies such as Druid, Fishamble, Rough Magic, Pan Pan, and The Abbey Theatre. She is passionate about universal arts access, and creates familiarisation packs for theatre performances. 

Recent and upcoming credits include: Like We Were Born To Move (National Youth Theatre in The Peacock); The Making of Mollie (The Ark Children's Cultural Centre); The Ballybruff Trilogy (Opera Workshop); Boss Rob (Backstage, Longford); amelia (Dee Roycroft); HOTHOUSE (Malaprop, Irish Arts Centre, New York); The Giggler Treatment (The Ark Children's Cultural Centre).