BUMP&GRIND Theatre Company

21/06/2023

14/02/2020

Meet Rosa Bowden, writer and performer of Frigid at Scene and Heard.

Get your tickets while you still can! Smock Alley Theatre, 22nd & 23rd FEB

Rosa is a theatre maker based in London and Dublin. She has a MA in theatre practice from UCD and Gaiety School of Acting. She has worked with Company’s including Sunday’s Child Theatre, Rule of Three Collective, Bombinate and Rough Magic. She is a co- founder of Bump&Grind Theatre.

10/02/2020

Time to meet Frigid at Scene and Heard director Hildegard Ryan!

Hildegard is a director in theatre and TV, hailing from Skerries co. Dublin. Hildegard studied English and History in Trinity College Dublin, and Film Production at CFS London. Her graduation short film was selected for the Cannes Film Fest short film corner in 2014.

Hildegard has collaborated withSunday's Child since 2013. She directed My Name is Saoirse, (winner of First Fortnight Award at the Dublin Fringe 2014, the Argus Angel at the Brighton Fringe 2015, and the Best Theatre Award at the Adelaide Fringe 2017.) She directed Overshadowed for the stage, and for its BBC3 screen adaptation. Overshadowed was nominated for a 2018 Rose d’Or Award and won the Mind Media Award for best drama in 2018.

With Eva O’Connor, Hildegard has co-written and directed The Friday Night Effect, which debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017. Most recently, she directed O’Connor’s Mustard which won a Fringe First and the Summerhall Lustrum award at the Edinburgh Fringe 2019.

Having directed a standalone episode for series 7, Hildegard has just wrapped on directing four episodes of The Dumping Ground series 8 for CBBC.

10/03/2018

It’s our last performance of Bump tonight Smock Alley Theatre 😣 Thank you to Smock Alley and to our amazing audiences this week! Tickets for tonight’s show are going fast so get your hands on some 😍

“Bump is perfectly crafted and offers the right amount of everything it promises to. It tells a deceptively powerful story and stands tall in doing so.” - David Keane

Smockalley.com/Bump

08/03/2018

There are only three performances of Bump to go and we’re having an amazing time at Smock Alley Theatre! Come celebrate with our favourite woman Lily and relive the awkward encounters of the journey from girlhood to womanhood. 💋 Tickets can be booked at Smock alley.com/Bump

07/03/2018

Wow! Thank you David Keane for the kind review :)
"Bump is perfectly crafted and offers the right amount of everything it promises to. It tells a deceptively powerful story and stands tall in doing so."

Opening night was so much fun! There are just four performances of Bump left to catch this week. The show starts at 8pm each night in Smock Alley Theatre and you can get your tickets at smockalley.com/bump

https://davidkeane.net/2018/03/04/review-bump/

Young Londoner Lily (Rosa Torr) waits to for her name to be called at a NHS clinic. She hasn’t taken this decision lightly but she needs to do what is right for her. It wasn’t part of her pl…

04/03/2018

Wanna win tickets to see Bump this week?! Head on over to Smock Alley Theatre’s Facebook to get yourself and a pal a night at the theatre! “Cleverly and sensitively presents the experience of abortion minus the heavy moral questions.” - Broadway Baby, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Back to normal this week. Kinda over it now anyway...
So lets come back with a COMPETITION to WIN TICKETS to this week's show!
'BUMP' is a visceral and fast paced one-woman show exploring the journey from girl to womanhood. To win two tickets for a night of your choice, like this post and tag who you'd bring along to the show! Read more: http://smockalley.com/bump/
BUMP&GRIND Theatre Company

04/03/2018

Our first of only six shows next week in Smock Alley Theatre is tomorrow night! 😮 Suferring from post-festival and cabin fever induced Theatre withdrawal symptom? Come meet Lily in the critically acclaimed Bump at 8pm. Tickets for tomorrow’s preview are at a reduced price of €12 and can be purchased at www.smockalley.com/Bump

We hope to see you there! ❤️

02/03/2018

Bump starts on the other side of the weekend and we have more of the team for you to meet. 🌈🌼🧚🏼‍♀️ Rosa performs and co-wrote Bump. She co-founded BUMP&GRIND Theatre Company with the other two where they met at UCD. She’s an actor, writer and theatre maker who trained at UCD, Fourth Monkey Theatre Company and Battersea Arts Centre. During her time in UCD she received the Ad Astra Performing Arts Scholarship and trained under the direction of Kellie Hughes. She was an active member of UCD Dramsoc and served as Visual Design Artist of the society. Her acting credits include 4:48 Psychosis, My Mother Said I Never Should and Lungs. She’s also a Kim Woodburn aficionado, tequila queen, with a mouth full of quavers.
Bump runs Monday 5th-Saturday 10th March, 8pm at . Get your tickets here smockalley.com/bump 💥💥💥

01/03/2018

5 DAYS TO GO until Bump and there’s more of the team for you to meet! Kelley is the producer of Bump. She has worked at Dublin Theatre Festival and the Gate Theatre, Dublin. Kelley fulfilled the role of Artistic Intern at Dublin Theatre Festival in 2015. In the Gate Theatre, Dublin, she worked as P.A to the Director & General Administrator. Producing training includes a six day course spread over five months of Creative Producer Training at Smock Alley Theatre: Smock Generator Course as part of the Scene + Heard Festival 2017 and Producer Training with Irish Theatre Institute in association with The Lir Academy of Dramatic Arts. Producing credits include Home, MEAT, Splash, Broken Strings, New History, Girls Like That. Kelley was once Auditor of the UCD Drama Society while in UCD which is where she met the talented and hard-working messers that are BUMP&GRIND, and the rest, as they say, is herstory. Kelley's other loves include wearing hats and drinking wine and going to other countries. If you ever see her drinking wine while wearing a hat in another country, you know she is in her happy place.
Get your tickets here smockalley.com/bump

01/03/2018

Audience reviews are our favourite reviews ❤️ Check out this selection of what our amazing audiences had to say about Bump! sunnier days at Edinburgh Festival Fringe ☀️😎

Get your tickets for next week's performances at
www.smockalley.com/bump

Bump is on for one week only, next Monday 5th - Saturday 10th March at 8pm in Smock Alley Theatre Boy's School