Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng 吳彩萍 (they/she) is a Hong Kong-Irish theatre maker and designer of set, costume and video. They are a winner of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design. They have worked at the Abbey Theatre, Singapore Repertory Theatre, The Grange Festival and on the West End. Their latest piece of theatre making, WINDOW A WORLD, was co-produced by Dublin Theatre Festival and BUDA Belgium.
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Fernanda Ferrari is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist originally from Brazil. With a Bachelor of Arts in Drama, her practice is deeply rooted in cultural and social contexts, utilizing creativity as a tool for personal and social transformation. In Ireland, Fernanda has been recognized with awards from the Arts Council, South Dublin County Council, The Civic Theatre, and Wexford County Council Arts Office, enabling her to research and develop original meaningful projects for young audiences. Her artistic work spans puppet theatre, storytelling, silent books, visual arts, and augmented reality (AR) technology. For over three years, she has collaborated with Mother Tongues on various projects and facilitated Language Explorers workshops for hundreds of multilingual families.
Adrienne N. Wartts received her M.A. in American Culture Studies, with an emphasis in African American Studies, from Washington University in St. Louis. She is an adjunct professor of film studies at Webster University. As a contributing writer for Jerry Jazz Musician magazine, she has interviewed Rick Coleman, author of Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock ‘N’ Roll and Elizabeth Pepin, author of Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era. Adrienne is the recipient of the 2009 Norman Mailer Writers Colony Scholarship for biography writing.
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Evelyn Conlon, described as one of Ireland’s major truly creative writers, is a novelist, short story writer, essayist and compiler of anthologies. Her own work has been widely anthologised and translated, most recently into Tamil, Chinese and Greek. She lives in Dublin. Her last collection was called Moving About the Place, her most recent publication, Reading Rites; Books, writing and other things that matter.
Dorit Cypis is an artist, educator, mediator, and community-builder exploring how history, identity, and social relations inform one another, guided by the question “Who are we to one other?” Cypis’ practice includes artistic production across performance, photography, sculpture and immersive media installation; curriculum development; mediative civic programs that address conflict and identity differences; publication on identity and social relations. Current art projects include The Artist in Her Archive, and What is the Color of Whiteness? Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, raised in Montreal, she currently lives in Los Angeles.
Anne Sipos is a mixed media sculptor based in Phoenix, Arizona. Her work is a form of
processing to grapple with personal experiences and how God plays the largest role. Sipos
received a BFA degree in sculpture and film production from Arizona State University in
2023 and is currently aiding other artists in production at Bollinger Atelier, an internationally
recognized fine arts foundry.
Clare Hughes is a photographer. Her personal photographic projects explore women’s identities in culture. Her subjects can range from online personas to the treatment of medical conditions and neurodiversity. Through her research, Clare locates symmetries between historical events and contemporary experience. Each builds on a narrative that questions future directions.