Asylum Production's Collaborators

Gerrie O’Grady

Gerrie O’Grady is co-founder and Outreach Director of Asylum Productions. As Outreach Director, Gerrie recently produced ‘Signs’, a series of short films for Spirit of Sign, Cork’s first Deaf Drama Group, and ‘Birdsong’ - a music single and video for Enable Ireland Adult Services.

She also created and produced the Community Spirit Project, a day-long celebration of creative diversity in our community.

Gerrie’s acting credits include a national tour with Impact Theatre Company’s ‘Effigy’; The Everyman Palace’s Production of ‘The Vagina Monologues’; and a national and international tour with Asylum Productions’ ‘The Bald Prima Donna’.

She also performs and records regularly as a singer and is lead singer of ‘The Love Junkies’ band in Cork.

Kath Geraghty

Kath has worked extensively in the UK in venues from Edinburgh to Bristol and London’s West End. She has lit world Premiers for Alan Ayckbourn, John Godber, David Creegan, Robert Sherman & Olivier Award winning Tim Firth. Now resident in Cork, recent Lighting Designs include, Lifeboat and Frozen in the Half Moon; Pondlife Angles, (Asylum Productions & the Midsummer Festival); We Shall Sing for the Fatherland, (Thinking Image Theatre); Morning After Optimism and September 11th 2001 for the Granary’s New Directors Festival; Once Upon a Barstool, (Granary & Everyman Palace Studio), Our Country’s Good, Female Transport and Caucasian Chalk Circle, for Marion Wyatt.

Other design credits include; West End: Comic Potential, written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn. Also for Alan Ayckbourn: Bedroom Farce, My Sister Sadie, Orvin Champion of Champions, This Is Where We Came In, Cheap and Cheerful, Callisto # 7, They’re Playing Our Song. For John Godber, Perfect Pitch. For Julia McKenzie HONK!. For Sam Walters Clockwatching, Whispers Along the Patio, Private Lives. Tim Firth’s The Safari Party, (Hampstead Theatre, London). The Wills’s Girls, (Show of Strength at The Tobacco Factory). Honest:Untouchable, Bristol New Vic Studio.

Olan Wrynn

Olan Wrynn has been working in theatre, film and design for the last ten years. Six of those years have been as production manager for Graffiti Theatre co. Olan is also a founding member of Janus Theatre Co. and is currently studying for a master in Drama and theatre studies at UCC. Designs Include: The Sunbeam Girls by Ashling Cara (Stage Centre/ Cork Opera House), Frozen by Byrony Lavery (Asylum/ Cork Opera House), Lifeboat by Nicola McCartney (Janus/ Cork Opera House). Pondlife Angels (Asylum), Fishy Tales (Graffiti), Chatroom (Activate Youth Theatre) and Bedbound (Asylum) by Enda Walsh. The Snow Queen (Graffiti) by Hans Anderson/ Mike Kenny, A Day in the Life of a Pencil (Graffiti) by Raymond Scanell, We Shall Sing For The Fatherland by Zakes Mda (Thinking Image), and The Beckett Project by Samuel Beckett (Phillip Zarrilli). Film Credits include: Bare by Jane Lee (Paper Plane) and Sample by Adrian Scanlan (Paper Plane).

Medb Lambert

Medb graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies and is currently co-ordinator of the Equinox Theatre Performance Course at KCAT Art & Study Centre, Callan Co. Kilkenny and programmer for the TRASNA International Festival of Inclusive Theatre. Medb previously worked with Asylum as co-deviser and performer on Cleaner (Kilkenny Arts Festival), and recently appeared In The Last Lot (Talking Birds Theatre Company).

Writing credits include:-
Town Mouse, Country Mouse (Barnstorm Theatre Company, National Tour)
She also wrote and directed Counting Chickens (The Warehouse Group, Kilkenny Arts Festival);
and Catch a Butterfly (Player’s Theatre, Trinity College).

Other directing credits include The Antigone Project at Ormonde Car Park for Kilkenny Arts Festival as part of Barnstorm’s Bring it Home initiative.
Design credits include;-
Bedtime Story by Sean O’Casey. (dir. Oisin Leech); Machinal by Sophie Treadwell (dir. Layla O’Mara); Europe by David Grieg (dir. Ronan MacRaois); Far Away by Caryll Churchill (dir. Roise Goan) all for the Samuel Beckett Theatre; Mountain Language by Harold Pinter and Shakers (dir. Madeleine O’Reilly), for Players Theatre, Trinity

Cormac O’Connor

Cormac O’Connor is a composer and sound designer working in Irish theatre for 12 years. In that time he has scored 73 productions. Highlights include the award winning Disco Pigs for Corcadorca. The Enchanted Room, a sound installation at Royal Festival Hall and The Straits a Herald Angel award winner for Paines Plough at the Edinburgh Festival 2003. In 2004 Two Step at the Almedia and Another America at Sadlers Wells. He wrote the music for the opera Madam T for Cork 2005 Capital of Culture. Cormac has also been heavily involved with childrens theatre notably with Graffiti, Replay and DYT. As composer at the European Childrens Theatre Encounter in U.C.C. he worked with 200 young people from 16 countries to create the outdoor spectacle Dreamtime. More recently Cormac has provided music for several tv documentaries for Harvest films and RTE.

Mark O’Brien

Mark O’Brien, has appeared for Graffiti Theatre Company in Striking Distance, The Lost Child and An Paiste Caillte, A Day in the Life of A Pencil, and The Snow Queen. All directed by Emelie FitzGibbon
And also for:
Dublin City Theatre Company: ‘Frank’ in This Lime Tree Bower by Conor Macpherson. Directed by Michael Scott.
Asylum TheProductions (Cork) : ‘Macca’ in ...touched... by
Ursula Rani Sarma and ‘Constable’ in Christie in Love by Howard
Brenton, both directed by Donal Gallagher
Playgroup (Cork): Various in SOAP by Ciaran Fitzpatrick and Linda Radley ‘William’ in Dark Week both directed by Tom Creed
Boomerang Theatre Company (Cork): ‘Miller’ in Searching for the Enemy by Gerald Bauer directed by Trish Edelstein
UCC Dramat (Cork): ‘Skinner’ in Freedom of the City by Brian Friel directed by Caitriona Chambers
‘Jack’ in Like Sugar on Skin written and directed by Ursula Rani Sarma
He also co-wrote and played ‘Ba’ in Last Call, directed by Tom Creed and appeared in ..touched... directed by Ursula Rani Sarma, both for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
He is currently studying to be a primary school teacher in Mary Immaculate College in
Limerick.