Fishamble: The New Play Company

Fishamble: The New Play Company Fishamble is an Irish theatre company that is passionate about discovering, developing and producing. https://linktr.ee/fishamble Registered Charity No.

Founded in 1988, Fishamble is an Irish theatre company that is passionate about discovering, developing and producing new plays. It is named after the Playhouse on Dublin’s Fishamble Street which, in the 1780s, became the first theatre to commission and produce plays by Irish writers.
‘Fishamble puts electricity in the National grid of dreams’ Sebastian Barry
Fishamble believes that vibrant theat

re stands at the centre of a vibrant civic society. It harnesses the imaginative power of theatre to provide audiences with a diverse range of contemporary, compelling and heartfelt dramatic works. Fishamble thinks nationally and reaches globally. It works collaboratively with networks of artists, communities, and organisations, to achieve the maximum possible life for its plays. For instance, over 30 Fishamble playscripts have been published. Fishamble has toured its productions to audiences throughout Ireland, and to 19 other countries. It typically produces over 200 performances annually, from the Aran Islands to Auckland, Ballymun to Brisbane, Clonmel to Cleveland. Fishamble champions the role of the playwright, through its productions, and wide range of artist supports and development initiatives. It works with over 50% of the writers of all new plays produced on the island of Ireland each year. Fishamble has received many awards in Ireland and internationally, including an Olivier Award, won jointly with Pat Kinevane. Its living archive is at the National Library of Ireland. Fishamble is funded by the Arts Council, Dublin City Council, and Culture Ireland.

‘Ireland’s leading new writing company’ The Stage
‘a global brand with international theatrical presence’ The Irish Times
‘forward-thinking Fishamble’ The New York Times
‘excellent Fishamble…Ireland’s terrific Fishamble’ The Guardian
‘when Fishamble is [in New York], you’ve got to go’ Time Out New York

Fishamble Theatre Company is a not for profit organisation and a registered charity with a valid charitable taxation exemption from the Revenue Commissioners. CHY 20103958 | Registered Company No. 168484. Fishamble’s Main Object is to benefit the community and advance education in the arts in Ireland as defined in the Arts Acts 1951, 1973 and 2003 through the development, promotion and operation of a Theatre Company.

💥 Less than a month to go until the World Premiere of For Dolores💥Lara McDonnell will be playing Réaltín.Lara’s most rec...
16/06/2026

💥 Less than a month to go until the World Premiere of For Dolores💥

Lara McDonnell will be playing Réaltín.

Lara’s most recent theatre credits include the role of Mary Warren in THE CRUCIBLE at The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, and Young Joan in the West End and Broadway production of THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA, written by Jez Butterworth and directed by Sam Mendes. Previous stage credits include the title role in the RSC’s production of MATILDA THE MUSICAL, at The Cambridge Theatre.

Catriona Faint will be playing Mo.

Catriona is a BA(Hons) Acting graduate from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Her recent theatre credits include: Hatter in Gallus in Weegieland (Tron Theatre), Jess in Lost Girls At Bus Stops (Play Pie Pint & Traverse Theatre), Katherine in James V: Katherine (Raw Material Arts & Capital Theatres), Jonathan Harker in Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning (National Theatre of Scotland), Annie in Enough of Him (National Theatre of Scotland & Pitlochry Festival Theatre) Sebastian in The Tempest (Tron Theatre), Annabella in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Sam Wanamaker Festival, The Globe)

You can catch Lara and Cat in For Dolores this Summer at:

🗓️ July 9-11th, Belltable, Limerick 

🗓️ July 14-18th, Mick Lally Theatre, Galway 

🗓️ July 22-26th, Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire 

🗓️ August 6-30th, TravFest, Edinburgh presented as part of the Culture Ireland Showcase 

Find out more and book your tickets now over at fishamble.com - via the link in our bio.

For Dolores is presented by Fishamble in association with Lime Tree Theatre | Belltable, Galway International Arts Festival and Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.

Fishamble is supported by The Arts Council, Dublin City Council & Culture Ireland.

This production is supported by the Scottish Government in Ireland.

💥 48 hours in Germany for the dress rehearsal of REFUGE by Deirdre Kinahan 💥Tech, dress and of course a little wander ar...
12/06/2026

💥 48 hours in Germany for the dress rehearsal of REFUGE by Deirdre Kinahan 💥

Tech, dress and of course a little wander around town - see what our producers Laura and Evie got up to in Mainz 📍

REFUGE is a co-production between Fishamble and Staatstheater Mainz in association with Pavilion Theatre and Lime Tree Theatre | Belltable - written by Deirdre Kinahan and directed by Jim Culleton featuring a cast of both German and Irish actors.

You can book your tickets for this very special collaboration now:

🗓️ 18-23 June & 17-21 October, Staatstheater Mainz

🗓️ 24-26 September, Lime Tree Theatre

🗓️ 30 September - 11 October, Pavilion Theatre Dún Laoghaire as part of Dublin Theatre Festival

🎟️ TICKETS ON SALE NOW - LINK IN BIO.

🙌 www.fishamble.com

Fishamble is supported by the Arts Council, Dublin City Council and Culture Ireland.

04/06/2026

There was a great response to the Wexford Playwrights Studio call out and though there were many quality applications from playwrights in Wexford, only four could be chosen for the studio.

Congratulations to Heidi Bowe, Amanda Farley, Jack Matthews and Oonagh Wall, Who were chosen as participants in this year's Wexford Playwrights Studio. They will receive mentoring on development for their plays from Gavin Kostick, Literary Manager, Fishamble: The New Play company as part of the Wexford playwrights Studio 2026 and we look forward to seeing the development of their work over the year.

👉https://www.wexfordartscentre.ie/wexford-playwright-studio-2026/

County Wexford Arts Office Fishamble: The New Play Company

⚡️ The wait is almost over for For Dolores! ⚡️Coming to , and next month followed by in Edinburgh in August 🙌Here’s a...
04/06/2026

⚡️ The wait is almost over for For Dolores! ⚡️

Coming to , and next month followed by in Edinburgh in August 🙌

Here’s a sneak peek at our first day of rehearsals!

We were thrilled to be joined by guests from our partnering venues as well as Friends of Fishamble for our very first read through.

Mo (the Scottish one) and Réaltín (the Irish one) partied, played and blazed their way through the Edinburgh student dream.

Set in Glasgow a couple of years later, For Dolores is about friendship, motherhood and coming to terms with your worst mistakes.

Like twin stars in obsessive orbit, it’s a friendship, a rivalry and an adventure. Risk is a delicious pleasure: until it all explodes in the blink of an eye.

How far will they go for love?

Starring Lara McDonnell as Réaltín and Catriona Faint as Mo

Written by Eva O’Connor

Directed by Jim Culleton

Set & Costume Design by Alyson Cummins

Lighting Design by Suzie Cummins

Composition & Sound Design by Denis Clohessy

Choreography by Nóra Ní Anluain Fay

Image by Leo Byrne and Publicis

🗓️ July 9-11th, Belltable, Limerick

🗓️ July 14-18th, Mick Lally Theatre, Galway

🗓️ July 22-26th, Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire

🗓️ August 6-30th, TravFest, Edinburgh presented as part of the Culture Ireland Showcase

Find out more and book your tickets now over at fishamble.com - via the link in our bio.

Fishamble is supported by The Arts Council, Dublin City Council & Culture Ireland.

This production is supported by the Scottish Government in Ireland.

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✨ First look at our incredible cast for REFUGE by Deirdre Kinahan ✨Fishamble: The New Play Company and Staatstheater Mai...
02/06/2026

✨ First look at our incredible cast for REFUGE by Deirdre Kinahan ✨

Fishamble: The New Play Company and Staatstheater Mainz in Germany, in association with Pavilion Theatre and Lime Tree Theatre | Belltable are delighted to present REFUGE by Deirdre Kinahan, directed by Jim Culleton.

Our world premiere is just two weeks away at the before we take the production home to in Limerick and at this Autumn.

REFUGE is a thrilling new play that weaves past, present and future: music and magic. Stories of longing, love and loss tear at the human need to find a place, a home, a refuge.

Left to right:
Aidan Kelly - Herr Ireland
Sabah Qalo - Zabi
Holger Kraft - Peter
Matthew Williamson - Dancer
Steve Wickham - Musician
Hannah Von Peinen - Hannah
Mary Murray - Molly

🗓️ 18-24 June

🗓️ 24-26 September

🗓️ 30 Sept - 11 Oct as part of

🗓️ 17-21 October

Tickets on sale now via the link in our bio / via each venue.

We can’t wait to see you there.

📸 by Andrea Stolowitz.

The run of REFUGE in Germany is supported by the Embassy of Ireland in Berlin and the Irish Consulate in Frankfurt.

Fishamble is supported by the Arts Council, Dublin City Council and Culture Ireland.

02/06/2026

✨ Ticket bundle: FORGOTTEN & UNDERNEATH for just €30 at the Town Hall Theatre in Galway this month! ✨

You can catch our double bill of Pat Kinevane’s work as part of a very special bundle at .

🗓️ Forgotten - 16 June
🗓️ Underneath - 17 June

Tickets via the Town Hall Theatre box office:

💻 tht.ie
📞 (091) 569 777

📌 Forgotten

A captivating portrayal of four elderly characters living in retirement homes around Ireland. Pat Kinevane’s haunting performance brings to life these sometimes forgotten voices of society.

Critics’ Choice, Los Angeles Times.

📌 Underneath

Sticks and stones didn’t break Her bones, but words and pointing crushed Her. Is Beauty really only skin deep? Does Ugliness hide somewhere deeper?

Underneath is a blackly comic, rich and vivid tale of a life lived in secret, a testament to the people who live on the fringes, under the nose of everyday life. It explores the surface, and what lies underneath.

★★★★ Sunday Business Post
★★★★★​ Scotsman
★★★★★​ The Skinny
★★★★ Irish Times

Listen back to Deirdre Kinahan on RTÉ Radio 1 discussing our upcoming production of REFUGE opening this June in Staatsth...
25/05/2026

Listen back to Deirdre Kinahan on RTÉ Radio 1 discussing our upcoming production of REFUGE opening this June in Staatstheater Mainz before coming home to Lime Tree Theatre and Pavilion Theatre as part of Dublin Theatre Festival this Autumn 🙌

Refuge explores Ireland’s complex history with migration, through the experience of an 18th Century German Palatine family and a more recent arrival from Afghanistan.

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22615447/

📢 GALWAY, WICKLOW, DUBLIN! We’re bringing Forgotten and Underneath by Pat Kinevane to you very soon 📢🗓️ First up we have...
21/05/2026

📢 GALWAY, WICKLOW, DUBLIN! We’re bringing Forgotten and Underneath by Pat Kinevane to you very soon 📢

🗓️ First up we have a double bill of both shows at the on June 16 & 17th

🗓️ Then on to for Forgotten on June 19th

🗓️ Followed by Underneath at on July 9th

Tickets are on sale now via each venues website - for more info.

Over the years, so many productions have begun, grown, or found support through Fishamble - from first ideas developed o...
20/05/2026

Over the years, so many productions have begun, grown, or found support through Fishamble - from first ideas developed on our Playwriting Courses to scripts shaped through the New Play Clinic and Big Ambitions, to those supported by the Fishamble New Writing Award at Dublin Fringe Festival.

To help celebrate and spread the word about the incredible work being made, we’re launching a monthly round-up of upcoming Fishamble-connected productions.

If your play was:

📌 Written as part of a Fishamble Playwriting Course

📌 Developed through the Fishamble New Play Clinic

📌 A recipient of the Fishamble New Writing Award at Dublin Fringe Festival

📌 Supported through the Fishamble x Dublin Fringe Big Ambitions programme

and is on tour, being staged abroad or being performed for one night only, send our Marketing Manager Allie an email at [email protected] with with the subject line: The Fishamble Round-Up, along with your image, copy, ticket link and the shows connection to Fishamble before the 25th of each month, and we’ll include your upcoming performances in our monthly round-up for the month ahead.

We can’t wait to share what you’ve been creating.

📢 Following a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe and we’re thrilled to see that last year’s winner of the Fishamble New W...
20/05/2026

📢 Following a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe and we’re thrilled to see that last year’s winner of the Fishamble New Writing Award is BACK!

Catch Don’t Tell Dad About Diana at Underbelly Boulevard Soho for two nights only next week.

“Drum tight and deadly” -

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Absorbing original” - Edinburgh Fringe Review

🗓️ 26 & 28 May
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🎟️ via Underbelly

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