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Anna Nugent

Co-Artistic Director & Founding Member

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Anna graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting. She is a founding member and Co-Artistic Director of AboutFACE and has appeared in seven shows for the company. Theatre/Film highlights: We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Our Town and Shock & Awe (Island Theatre Company), the new animated series Space Chickens in Space; Anna has worked with US companies such as the cell (resident artist), Tangent (company member), Primary Stages, the Irish Repertory Theatre and Art House Productions, where she was also a member of their new works group INKubator. Co-Producer of the NEWvember New Plays Festival with Tangent, and of IMPACT 2012, a political arts festival in New York with Culture Project. Anna is a trained drama facilitator and has worked children and adults in numerous settings. For AboutFACE: All in the Timing, Tape, Featuring Loretta, Boy Gets Girl, Collected Stories, The Laramie Project, Almost, Maine, Orson Welles' Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play, NEWvember 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2017, Winter Pub Reading Series 2017, Brutal Selfish Rattlesnake (workshop).

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Paul Nugent

Co-Artistic Director & Founding Member

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Paul is a founding member and Co-Artistic Director of AboutFACE, is the creator of the NEWvember New Plays Festival, and has performed in seven shows for the company. New York theatre includes The McGowan Trilogy (also UK premiere at Kino Teatr), The Biscuit Club, Blood, Dancing at Lunacy, Much Ado about Nothing (all with The Cell, resident artist), McGoldrick's Thread (80 St Marks), The Field (Irish Rep), Font of Knowledge, Something to Remember Me By (ArtHouse), Arrah-na-Pogue (Storm Theatre), Ladies & Gents (Irish Arts Center), Blood Guilty (1stIrish Festival), The Jungle Fun Room (FringeNYC). Other theatre credits include The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Ivoryton Playhouse), The Miracle Worker (Foothills Theatre), Capitalism: The Musical (Italian tour), and Never the Sinner (PurpleHearts). Paul recently made his directorial debut on Between the Dawns, part of the 2017 New Irish Playbook. TV/film includes “The Blacklist” (NBC), “Custer’s Last Stand-Up” (BBC) and the short The Long Wet Grass. Paul trained at the Gaiety School of Acting. For AboutFACE: All in the Timing, Tape, Boy Gets Girl, The Laramie Project, The Glory of Living, Almost, Maine, Orson Welles' Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play, NEWvember 2011-2017, Winter Pub Reading Series 2017, Brutal Selfish Rattlesnake (workshop).

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Alan Walsh

Co-Artistic Director & Founding Member

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Alan trained at the School of Performing Arts, Wicklow. He is Co-Artistic Director of AboutFACE Ireland and has appeared in All in the Timing, Tape, Boy Gets Girl, Featuring Loretta, Almost Maine: A Staged Reading and Orson Welles' Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play for the company. Other theatre credits include King Lear, The Good Person of Szechuan, Juno and the Paycock, The Seagull, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Hamlet, Not About Nightingales and Digger, Doc and Dee-Dee. Television and film credits include Alarm, Bloodbath at Brighton Beach and The Pundit. For AboutFACE: All in the Timing, Tape, Boy Gets Girl, Featuring Loretta, Collected Stories, The Glory of Living, Almost, Maine, Orson Welles' Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play.

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Tara McKeever

Founding Member

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Tara is a founding & company member of AboutFACE Ireland, and has appeared in four productions for the company; All in the Timing, Featuring Loretta, The Laramie Project & as Arlene Francis in Orson Welles'A Christmas Carol in 2012; Tara also designs make-up, hair and costume. Tara graduated from the School of the Performing Arts in Wicklow, and other theatre includes The Seagull, King Lear and the Irish premiere of Tennessee Williams’ Not About Nightingales! Design consultant for the critically acclaimed play The Woolgatherer (Orion Productions) and the staged radio play of Rebecca (Sandyford Little Theatre). Tara runs 'Tootsie Royale Designs' where she designs headpieces for brides & costumes for burlesque performers, and has been featured in many of Ireland's top media publications, radio & television programmes. For AboutFACE: All in the Timing, Featuring Loretta, The Laramie Project, Orson Welles' Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play, NEWvember reading panel 2015, 2016 & 2017, Winter Pub Reading Series 2017, NEWvember 2017, also costume & make-up design for numerous shows.

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Charlie Kranz

Company Member since 2004

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Charlie performed in several productions while at The University of Notre Dame. Before moving to Dublin, he studied & performed long-form improvisation at iOWest in Hollywood and led improv workshops in schools and hospitals for Imagination Workshop of UCLA. His credits include, Film/TV: Into The Badlands (AMC), Batman Begins (Warner Brothers), Supervized (Great Point Media), Miss Conception (First Look), The Honeymooners (Paramount Pictures), The Clinic (RTÉ); Theatre: A Cry From Heaven (The Abbey Theatre), Woyzeck (Rough Magic Seeds 2) and for AboutFACE, The Laramie Project and Featuring Loretta. He has also performed at the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival and in several radio dramas for RTÉ. For AboutFACE: Featuring Loretta, The Laramie Project, NEWvember reading panel 2016 & 2017, Winter Pub Reading Series 2017, also logo design, website design, and photography.

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Noni Stapleton

Company Member since 2012

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Noni graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting. She co-founded Skipalong Theatre Company where she co-wrote and performed in One for Sorrow and Two for a Girl (Jayne Snow Award nominee, published in 'Freshly Brewed'). A company member of AboutFACE, she has appeared in The Laramie Project and Orson Welles' Christmas Carol. Theatre: Lizzy Lavelle and the Vanishing of Emlyclough, Massacre @ Paris, Little Victories, Walking Away (Best Production, Limerick Fringe), Footnotes Tap Show, An Triail, What The Dead Want, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Antigone. TV /FILM : Quirke (BBC), Ripper St. (BBC), Vikings, The Clinic (RTE), The Tudors (TV3), Fair City (RTE), Siol (TG4), Marion agus an Banphrionsa (Best Short, Cork Film Festival), and many Irish language productions. For AboutFACE: The Laramie Project, Almost, Maine, Orson Welles' Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play, NEWvember reading panel 2015, 2016 & 2017.

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