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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.

07/09/2026

Meet the facilitator for our Collective Residency: Anna Rispoli.

Anna works on the boundary between artistic creation and civic space, developing prototypes for sharing material resources, intelligence and affect. For twenty years her transdisciplinary projects, performances and urban installations have been made across Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia.

This residency is partly inspired by ‘The Common Wallet’ - a shared bank account and an experiment in radical trust co-founded by Anna Rispoli in Brussels in 2018. We are thrilled that Anna will be sharing her extensive experience with the collective residency.

Share space, share budget, share ideas.

Applications close Friday 11th September at 5pm

Full details and how to apply at the link in bio

Thank you to our funders The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and CorkCityArt

17/08/2026

📣 Welcome Artem Trofimenko to the studio 📣

Artem is in his second week of residency, and by the looks of the videos, they are having a very fruitful time.
Sharing of the work on Saturday 22nd at 2pm 🪩

Artem Trofimenko is an Irish-Ukrainian artist working across performance, sound, and moving image. Their practice explores listening, perception, and the poetics of displacement through interdisciplinary environments where movement and sound co-evolve. Drawing on analogue film and Butoh-informed performance, their work brings together improvisation, spatial composition, and atmospheric sound.

Recent projects include \f\XILE at Sirius Arts Centre and Lavit Gallery for the Cork Fringe Festival 2026. They are currently developing Radio Silence, a cross-border project between Ireland and Finland supported by the Nordic Culture Fund.

‘Radio Silence’ explores the body as a receiver within unstable sonic environments. Working with movement, live sound, and projected image, the project investigates listening as a compositional practice — how performers attune to signals, interference, and shifting fields of attention

14/08/2026

📣 OPEN CALL: Directors Group 📣

Applications are now open for Directors Group — a new six-part peer-support and upskilling programme for theatre directors, launching this October. Founded by Al Dalton and Donal O’Keeffe in collaboration with Cork Theatre Collective, and facilitated by Julie Kelleher.

🗓️ Deadline: Monday 7th September, 5pm

Who can apply: directors, movement directors and choreographers — early-career to established — with a minimum of 3 years’ experience as a theatre practitioner.

Key points: €600 contribution towards expenses, in-person only in Cork, six sessions running October 2026 – July 2027, full attendance required across all sessions.

Full programme details & how to apply: link in bio.

04/08/2026

📢Leon Danza in the Studio 📢

This week we welcome Leon Danza to the CTC studio
to develop ‘The Ballad of a Barrel Man’

Leon Danza is a Cork creative working in multiple facets of film and theatre as a performer, director, dramaturg and writer. His writing practice explores familial relationships, childhood trauma, philosophy and existentialism through dark humour and unfiltered honesty being heavily inspired by absurdism and expressionism.

He began his actor training at Colaiste an Stiofan Naofa gaining an understanding of the fundamentals of performance. He then went on to obtain a Bachelor’s degree from Munster Technological University in Theatre and Drama, studying scriptwriting during his time there and writing a full length radio play in his final year which he also directed. Leon believes firmly in collaboration as a key element of the creative process, always working closely with other artists in every artistic endeavour.

‘The Ballad of Barrel Man’ is a dark comedy about a voluntarily homeless man who lives in a barrel on Patrick Street. Spending his days ranting and raving at how the government are crooks, the public are ‘sheeple’, virtue has been turned into a product, and how everything has essentially gone to pot, he hopes to wake up society to the ‘real truth’. Gathering ‘evidence’ in his shopping trolley, he plans to expose the corrupt politicians of Ireland, but will anyone listen to a man living in a barrel?

👀 Watch this space for work in progress sharing details

30/07/2026

Today is Karolína’s last day-our wonderful Erasmus theatre student from the Czech Republic. We want to say a very special thanks to Karolína for jumping in to the CTC on ‘Nightshift’ and working so passionately with Grace, Keira and Emma as part of their 6-week residency.

We are delighted to have facilitated this connection between artists and the next generation of talent across Europe. 🙏🙏

Safe travels Karolína, slán go fóill. ❤️
Karolína Eliot Kubešová Keira O' Connell Barrow

20/07/2026

📢 OPEN CALL: The Collective Residency
For the final residency of 2026, we’re trying something different.
We’re inviting CTC members to come together for a 4-week collective residency this October/November — with a bursary of €10,000, an external facilitator experienced in collective theatre-making, and production and admin support from CTC.
No fixed outcome. No hierarchy handed down. We’re asking artists to divide the studio time, pay equitable fees, and design their own way of working together. The residency will culminate in a work-in-progress sharing or symposium this November.
This one’s for our members — all 173 of you. You’ve shaped CTC over the last 18 months, and this is an invitation to collaborate on a bigger scale. We especially encourage you to reach out to members you haven’t worked with before.
🗓 Key dates: Applications open — Mon 20 July Members meeting — Tues 28 July (come meet potential collaborators!) Deadline — Fri 11 Sept, 5pm Residency — 12–23 Oct & 2–13 Nov Sharing — w/end 27 Nov
Full guidelines + how to apply via the link in bio.
Access requirements? Email [email protected]

📸 by and at Process 2026

10/07/2026

Moving into Hope

Lovely photo from Emma Barrow and Kiera O’Connell’s
‘Signs of Positivity’ workshop this week.

Join them again tomorrow for Deaf Awareness Training

10-12 at CTC Studio

Register for free at link in our bio

08/07/2026

Meet Kiera O'Connell, one of collaborators. Kiera is inviting you to an excellent training session this Saturday with Emma. Info and link in bio.

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Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St
Cork

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https://linktr.ee/corktheatrecollective

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