Cork Theatre Collective - CTC

Cork Theatre Collective - CTC Cork Theatre Collective (CTC) is a new theatre resource and development organisation for the theatre artists of Cork City and County.

CTC aims to support the development of theatre
artists rooted in Cork and their work through residencies and supports.

🚨Emily Terndrup is back!!🚨We are thrilled to have one of our 2026 Artists in Residence back in the studio for a 2 week s...
18/05/2026

🚨Emily Terndrup is back!!🚨

We are thrilled to have one of our 2026 Artists in Residence back in the studio for a 2 week stint

Emily is cooking up an exciting new piece and we will hear more from her throughout the studio time ⚡️

Emily Terndrup is a choreographer, performer, and director working across theatre, dance, and film. Her debut show OFFSPRING (A Modern Frankenstein) premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2025, winning Best Performer, Best Design, and the Radical Spirit of the Fringe Award. Emily’s past collaborations include more than a decade as a performer and rehearsal director with immersive theatre company Punchdrunk in their productions The Burnt City (London) and Sleep No More (New York and Shanghai). Selected credits include: Associate Director on Life and Trust; Choreographer on Gina Moxley’s I Fall Down; Movement Director on Des Kennedy’s Making History, Sophie Motley’s The Summer I Robbed a Bank, Emma Jordan’s The Glass Menagerie, Josh Seymour’s Suddenly Last Summer, as well as Yael Farber’s The Tragedy of Macbeth and My Brilliant Friend (nominated for ‘Best Choreography & Stage Movement’ at the Gríman Awards). Her other choreographic projects have been presented at the Cork Midsummer Festival, The Knockdown Center, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theater, and The Packing House.

📢 Alison Teahan is in the studio this week 🎭We are thrilled to welcome Alison, fresh from her sold out performances thi...
11/05/2026

📢 Alison Teahan is in the studio this week 🎭

We are thrilled to welcome Alison, fresh from her sold out performances this weekend

Alison is developing a new play, ‘The Woman At The Table’

On the night Ireland watched a woman tell an unwelcome truth on national television, The Woman at the Table places Annie Murphy and four ordinary Irish women backstage at The Late Late Show, exposing how judgement, complicity, faith, and fear collide when a woman dares to speak in a country not yet ready to listen.

In 1993, Annie Murphy sat beneath studio lights and told Ireland the truth. The women you meet here are inventions, composites of the voices that filled living rooms, letters, and airwaves that night. The Woman at the Table is inspired by true events surrounding Annie Murphy’s 1993 appearance on The Late Late Show. It is not a reconstruction, but a reimagining: a meditation on what it means for a woman to speak, and to be heard.

The Woman at the Table is a new feminist drama that re-examines the 1993 Late Late Show interview in which Annie Murphy revealed her relationship with Bishop Eamon Casey.

Alison Teahan
Alison Teahan is a Cork-based director, writer, producer and actor. She was awarded the Irish Theatre Institute’s Six In The Attic year-long Artist Residency for 2026. Warm Regards is Alison’s debut play, which won the Catalyst Award 2025. Her other plays include her sophomore play, The Girls Room which was awarded the BEGIN residency with Cork Theatre Collective and will premiere in the 2026 Cork Fringe Festival Programme. Her third play The Woman At The Table was awarded The Pavilion Pulse award in November 2025. Her fourth play, Between Us, is in pre-production for a late-2026 premiere. Her work explores modern Irish womanhood with wit, honesty, and a love for theatrical intimacy. She trained at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, where she performed in “Orlando”, “Hamlet”, and “Dancing at Lughnasa”.  Alison recently received a Creative Ireland Grant for her programme “Belonging To The Stage” which is a workshop series ensuring free, high-quality arts training for under-privileged youth

Sharing at 3pm this Friday

📢 We welcome ALSA to the studio this week! 📢ALSA Productions is a Cork based theatre company founded in 2016 and led by ...
27/04/2026

📢 We welcome ALSA to the studio this week! 📢

ALSA Productions is a Cork based theatre company founded in 2016 and led by co-artistic directors Al Dalton & Sadhbh Barrett Coakley. They work collaboratively to make theatre for all ages inspired by the mundane, elemental and hopeful stories that surround us.

ALSA are collaborating with Olivier and Tony Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens on his play ‘Maria’. The play was originally commissioned by The Thalia Theatre in Hamburg and had its world premiere in 2019. To date it has been performed in German & Slovenian. It has yet to receive its English language premiere.

‘Maria’ is a modern take on the Mary myth. It is a triptych of ultimate questions: Birth – Love – Death. Set in a Port town similar to Cork, it explores loneliness and solitude in the 21st Century through the eyes of a young woman named Ria. The play interrogates human fragility and transformation.

ALSA are using their CTC residency to look at the play through a ‘Cork lens’ with a view to production, while also grounding their collaborative relationship with Simon and the wider creative team.

👀 More from Al and Sadhbh as the week progresses

We are thrilled to announce our next round of artists in residence 📣Across the spring/summer we will have these brillian...
21/04/2026

We are thrilled to announce our next round of artists in residence 📣

Across the spring/summer we will have these brilliant artists in the studio developing new work

ALSA
ALISON TEAHAN
LEON DANZA
ARTEM TROFIMENKO
LESLEY CONROY

Read more about their projects at corktheatrecollective.com



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📢 This week’s Artist in Residence is Joey Neville 📢Joey Neville, a native of Cork, is a multifaceted artist whose talent...
20/04/2026

📢 This week’s Artist in Residence is Joey Neville 📢

Joey Neville, a native of Cork, is a multifaceted artist whose talents encompass art, musicianship, songwriting, playwriting, and acting. His creative journey began in the 1980s and continues to thrive today. Joey’s unique narrative and musical style draw from his rich life experiences and profound themes of human suffering, recovery, and catharsis.

Outreach is a new play about the deeper realities of addiction: the social constructs surrounding it, the stigma and bias, and how these shape the lives of those experiencing addiction. The play uses original songs, fictional scenes and monologues to express the reality of addiction in contemporary society. Joey performs the piece alongside three others. It is framed by a monologue titled “The Four Jimmys”, which gives insight into the many faces of addiction. Joey draws from both personal experience and his work in outreach in Cork’s inner city.

Email [email protected] if you would like to come along to Joey’s work in progress sharing this Friday at 3pm

Our programmes are supported by and

🎭Devising Physical Theatre 🎭 📣 Workshop This Sunday! 📣Australian theatre-maker and puppeteer Bella Young will share a ta...
14/04/2026

🎭Devising Physical Theatre 🎭

📣 Workshop This Sunday! 📣

Australian theatre-maker and puppeteer Bella Young will share a taste of their inclusive dance-theatre practice. 

Bring along a creative idea or concept - and through movement, improvisation and storytelling this workshop will invite you to explore your work from a physical theatre perspective.

This workshop is open to peoples of all ages, genders, abilities, and backgrounds. You are welcome to watch, come and go as you need, you aren’t required to have a professional background in performance, just an idea and a curiosity to create.

Sunday 19 April
1-3pm
CTC Studio at Triskel Arts Centre
Free, but you must register
Sign up 🔗 in bio

🚨 OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS 🚨Got a bold new theatre project in development? Ready to bring it to life in front of a live aud...
13/04/2026

🚨 OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS 🚨

Got a bold new theatre project in development? Ready to bring it to life in front of a live audience this summer? 👀🔥

Cork Theatre Collective and Cork Midsummer Festival are looking for 3 exciting projects to be part of Process at Cork Midsummer Festival — and if you’ve never presented at the festival before, we want to hear from you.

✨ WHO: Cork-based artists with 5+ years professional experience
✨ WHAT: Daring, innovative, passionate theatre
✨ 2 projects will be site-specific — got the perfect Cork location in mind? Tell us.

💥 WHAT YOU GET:
– A platform at one of Ireland’s leading multidisciplinary arts festivals
– €500 artist fee
– Dedicated producing support
– The chance to connect with future collaborators + partners

📅 KEY DATES:
Applications open: Mon 13 April
Deadline: Mon 11 May
Artists notified: Week of 11 May
Platform dates: 11–20 June

⚡ Don’t sit on that idea — this is your chance to make it happen.

Full guidelines on CTC website

Apply via Jotform (link in bio)

This week we welcome Ayoub Tomi to the studio. Ayoub Tomi is a theatre/film artist and performer currently based in Cork...
13/04/2026

This week we welcome Ayoub Tomi to the studio.

Ayoub Tomi is a theatre/film artist and performer currently based in Cork, Ireland, working across devised theatre, physical performance, and film. His practice explores freedom, identity, and current world issues, blending comedy with raw honesty.

He trained at University College Cork, ERAM Barcelona, and through international workshops with renowned actors and coaches in theatre and screen acting. He has been acting from a very young age and has been part of many international projects in both theatre and film. 
Fluent in eight languages and drawing on his European and African heritage, Ayoub brings a unique mix of cultures to every project.

In and Out is a one-man performance exploring freedom, how it is lost and reclaimed, through the lens of life inside a high-control religious group, blending comedy, confession, multimedia, movement and music to reveal the lived reality of psychological control. Rooted in personal experience yet widely resonant, the work transforms a painful past into an urgent, human reflection on autonomy in a world at risk of becoming Plato’s Cave.

Ayoub will be sharing some of the work for an invited audience on Friday. Details to follow. 👀

Funded by and

This week’s residency artist is Lidija ŠolaWorking across circus, physical theatre, and dance, Lidija makes work that is...
07/04/2026

This week’s residency artist is Lidija Šola

Working across circus, physical theatre, and dance, Lidija makes work that is surreal, dark, and entirely her own.

She’s in the space this week with collaborators Sadhbh Moriarty and Will Flanagan, developing ‘The Descent’— an absurdist tragedy set in a decaying basement world, where a brother and sister bound to two-metre wooden legs live between innocence and grotesque ritual, their longing for “normality” spiralling into a desperate act of self-transformation. During the residency, the focus will be on developing the performers’ physical language and a fragmented private vocabulary — created through constrained writing and cut-up techniques — to build an intimate, unsettling theatrical world that reimagines stilt work beyond fun and spectacle.

More from the room as the week unfolds. 👀

Thank you to our funders for making the residencies possible

📣 Residencies 2026 — Round 2 Call OutCork Theatre Collective is delighted to open Round 2 of our 2026 Residencies, suppo...
06/03/2026

📣 Residencies 2026 — Round 2 Call Out

Cork Theatre Collective is delighted to open Round 2 of our 2026 Residencies, supporting independent artists at all stages of their careers.

This round includes 1-week residencies, a 2-week studio residency, and a 2-week writing residency, with funding available to support the development of new work.

🗓 Deadline: Monday 6 April, 5pm
🔗 Apply via the link in bio

All residency dates, details, guidelines and the application form are available on our website.

Thank you to our funders and for their continued support

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