The Tyrone Guthrie Centre Annaghmakerrig

11/01/2024

The team at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre are delighted to announce that The Debi O'Hehir Bursary 2024 has been awarded to Frances O’Reilly.

Frances lives on the edge of the Mourne Mountains, County Down. She has had a number of solo exhibitions and has participated many in group shows over the course of her career. During her residency she will be working on a series of new small-scale paintings. Her work is concerned with the relationship between colour and shape, she is interested in developing visual stories with a language of geometric based form, pattern and motifs, to which the use of colour is central.

This award is made in honour of artist Debi O’Hehir who was a regular visitor to The Centre and who was a valued member of the Tyrone Guthrie Community. A talent artist, Debi lived and worked in County Leitrim, having grown up in Kinvara, County Clare. Thank you to Debi’s sister Siobhan and family for their vision and work in creating this award in her memory.

03/01/2024

https://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/media/653703359b

From the archives of Indiana University Media Collection - A short Film about Tyrone Guthrie, his ideas, and his methods of working. There is interesting footage of Guthrie at home in Annaghmakerrig, and in rehearsals in New York and interviews about his philosophy toward the theatre as a medium.

02/01/2024

Its not the same without you! We are open, and so looking forward to welcoming our 1st guests of 2024 tomorrow🥰. Check out our links for forthcoming opportunities.

30/12/2023

Applications for The Irish Theatre Institutes, Phelim Donlon Playwright’s Bursary & Residency 2024 open on 8th January 2024. The Bursary & Residency provides a professional playwright with time, physical resources and mentoring towards writing a new play. The award comprises an ITI writers’ bursary of €2,000 and a 2 weeks’ fully resourced residency Tyrone Guthrie Centre Annaghmakerrig.

For more information: see a link in our bio which bring you directly to ITI website.

Phelim Donlon, was a treasure, and highly respected independent theatre producer for many years and also the Drama Officer at the Arts Council (1983 – 2001). He was committed to the arts and was a passionate advocate for new and emerging talent. Phelim was also a dedicated member of the first Irish Theatre Institute’s PLAYOGRAPHYIreland Advisory Panel.

The shortlisted artists will each receive €500. Applications will open on Monday 8 January, and close at 5pm, Tuesday 6 February. The Phelim Donlon Playwright’s Bursary & Residency is supported through the generosity of a private donor and funded by the

27/12/2023

We are delighted to announce that the inaugural Tanya Moiseiwitsch Bursary Award 2024 is being made to Maree Kearns. The peer panel reviewing the high standard of applications commented; “Outstanding, Maree Kearns this is a designer with unique, clear and passionate vision, her work is the embodiment of the spirit of the award.”

Tanya Moiseiwitsch,1914-2003, was a key figure of theatre design whose career spanned more than 50 years. One of the leading lights of her generation, she had a dynamic and successful international career, her work was highly influential in the development of twentieth-century stage design. She broke new ground with the development of thrust stages which revolutionised the way audiences interacted with theatre. Image Credit: Ros Kavanagh

25/12/2023

Thinking today of the wonderful people who have stayed and worked here over the year, and all those who support our work. From everyone at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, we wish you a Happy Christmas. All health, happiness and good things for your creative year ahead.

10/12/2023

Applications for Ards and North Down Borough Council Arts Bursaries 2024/25 are NOW OPEN!

Applications are now open for arts bursaries to professional practicing artists resident in the Borough of Ards and North Down: For more information on each of the bursaries, and to apply, visit: Ards and North Down Borough Council https://andculture.org.uk/funding/bursaries

Tyrone Guthrie Centre: Up to four one-week studio residencies available for artists working in any arts discipline (visual arts / crafts / performance / literature, etc).

One of the bursaries for the Tyrone Guthrie Centre has been made available to support an artist with a disability. This particular bursary is in honour of Chris Ledger, former CEO of the University of Atypical and a tireless ambassador for D/Deaf and disabled artists.

10/12/2023

08/12/2023

Tyrone Guthrie Centre are delighted to announce with our partners, Irish Writers Centre, that The 2024 Harte Bursary 2024 awardee is Sue Divin.

Sue is a Derry-based writer and peace worker, with Armagh roots. With wry humour and emotional punch, her writing often touches on diversity, reconciliation, borders and the legacy of the Troubles. She has two young adult novels (Macmillan). Truth Be Told (Parent Trap meets Derry Girls) won the McCrea Literary Award and was shortlisted at the Irish Book Awards and UK Literacy Awards. Guard Your Heart (A ‘Romeo and Juliet’ set in NI 2016) was Carnegie shortlisted and won the Great Reads Award (Ireland).

The award is named in honour of Jack Harte, Founder of the Irish Writers Centre. Previous awardees include Louise Phillips, Micheál Ó Conghaile, Jan Carson, Neil Hegarty, Henrietta McKervey, Sarah Moore Fitzgerald and Liz Nugent.

07/12/2023

Reminder Theatre Designers! Applications for The Tanya Moiseiwitsch Award 2024 close next Monday 11th December at midnight. (See links or more on our website)

This new award offers a week’s residency full board and studio access to a theatre designer working and living in Ireland. The award is designed to support a designer working towards the development of a new production, research, or publication. The selection will be made by a peer panel and will be announced in late December 2023.

07/12/2023

Good news, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in partnership with The Irish Writers Centre are delighted to announce The Lacuna Bursary awardees for 2024. Julie O'Leary and Rafael Mendes. The awards were presented at the Writers Centres Members’ Christmas Party last night.

Julie O’Leary is an Irish Traveller writer. She is a mother of two young gentlemen, who aspire to become authors themselves. Julie comes from the midlands of Ireland, where the wealth of creative pours out like the sea itself. She come from a rich heritage of old Irish Traveller storytellers. Her deep love and passion for writing came from her grandfather Joseph O’Leary.

Rafael Mendes is a migrant writer from Brazil. His work has recently appeared in Skylight 47, Litro Magazine, Poet Lore, The Trumpet, and archived in UCD Irish Poetry Reading Archive. He has been selected for Poetry Ireland's 2023 Introduction Series. He's a PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant at Trinity College Dublin.

02/12/2023

Call for applications forThe Tanya Moiseiwitsch Bursary (See links or our website)
Because Moiseiwitsch usually designed both set and costumes for a production, there was a strong sense of visual unity in her productions. Her sets became more pared down as the century progressed, creating a theatrical space in which her costumes became expressive emblems, sculpted by dramatic and suggestive lighting. Moiseiwitschs highly conceptual, abstract notion of theater design, using visual elements to elaborate on the metaphorical significance of the play, has been extremely influential in contemporary theater design all over the world.

Note Image Credits V&A Museam London
No 1) Costume design for Antonio in Twelfth Night Maker and role
Tanya Moiseiwitsch, 1957

No 2) Cyrano de Bergerac, showing a full length male figure in swaggering pose, his head turned to his right to show his nose in profile.

No 3) This design by Tanya Moiseiwitsch was for a costume worn by Lorna Whitehouse as Patience in scenes 2, 8, 9 and 12 of Shakespeare's Henry Vlll directed by Tyrone Guthrie that opened at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on 15th July 1949. The production starred Anthony Quayle as Henry as Diana Wynyard as Queen Katharine, and included Paul Hansard as Sir Thomas Lovell.