JO MANGAN
Artistic Director

Jo is Artistic Director of The Performance Corporation. Recent directing credits for the company include Lizzie Lavelle and the Vanishing of Emlyclough (Carne Golf Links, Belmullet, Co.Mayo),  Drive-By (Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival Canterbury Festival), and Dr. Ledbetter’s Experiment (Traverse Theatre,Edinburgh Festival Fringe). The original Kilkenny Arts Festival co-production of Dr Ledbetter’s Experiment was an Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards Best Production nominee. Previous work for the company includes The Yokohama Delegation (Kilkenny Arts Festival co- production) which represented Ireland at the Prague Quadrennial Design Exhibition, Paka (Nairobi and Mombassa, Kenya), the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards multi-award winning Candide, The 7 Deadly Sins, and the Stewart Parker Trust Award nominated The Butterfly Ranch by Tom Swift. Radio plays for The Performance Corporation and Lyric FM include The Flying Dutchman of Iniskill by Tom Swift and Haven by Michelle Read. The company has also made two short films directed by Jo; War and Peace, the Musical by Maeve Ingoldsby, and A Life (15 Second Film Festival)

Other directing credits include; Beware of the Storybook Wolves for The Ark, Awimbaway, Mary Quirke, Moira, and Dreamframe (Fishamble Theatre Company), Lost Letters of a Victorian Lady by Michelle Read (Bewleys), A Place with the Pigs by Athol Fugard (Crypt), Look Back in Anger (City Arts Centre), Frank McGuinness’s Mary and Lizzie (Dublin Theatre Festival), and The Magic Island (Yew Theatre). Readings directed include The Shewing up of Blanco Posnett and Spreading the News (abbeyonehundred/Dublin Theatre Festival), and King of the Castle (Dublin Theatre Festival). TV includes a Flann O’Brien special for TV3 The 3rd Policeman’s Ball. Jo is a graduate of the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, and  a board member of Association of Theatre Directors in Ireland  (ATDI) and Fishamble Theatre Company.  

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