Professional Development
Opportunities for Artists and Arts Workers
Fostering Professional Development is part of our mission.
Our new studio at 42 Fairview Strand enables us to provide inventive opportunities for independent artists and performing arts professionals.
In addition to bespoke masterclasses and tailored studio supports, we work together witha number of organisations, collaborating on structured creative support programmes, including Irish Theatre Institute.
CoisCéim is also a founding partner of, and administrates the Emma O’Kane Bursary, which provides an unbounded opportunity for artists to explore and embrace dance, movement or a physical language in their work.
Artists we've supported at 42 Fairview Strand …
20 - 24 January 2025
One Two One Two
One Two One Two are collaborating with Aoife McAtamney to develop a live performance based on Aoife's debut album, Pink Breath. We are delighted to be joined by dancer Justine Cooper and a four piece band. The week culminated in a private sharing of the work-in-progress.
January 2025 & July 2024
Neil O'Driscoll
"Over the past eight months I have worked on two separate projects in the CoisCéim Studio in Fairview, with studio and equipment support in-kind from CoisCéim. The first was a shoot in July for short film, 'Moan', which was written, produced and co-directed by Roisin O'Donovan, with funding from the Actor as Creator fund in partnership with Bow street academy and Screen Ireland.
In January myself and several other theatre professionals held a workshop to experiment with light and projection, for which we received a theatre bursary."
2 - 6 December 2024
Nick Nikolaou
Part of ITI @ CoisCéim Residency
"The 1 week residency in CoisCéim was very helpful and needed. The winter season can be a lull for artists and their practice, so having full access to a space for a week really helped with organising my needs and plans for the new year. Getting to also use the beautiful dance studio for some dance practice was a great addition one that we can never take for granted as dancers. Thank you so much to the Irish Theatre Institute and to Sarah from CoisCéim for their openness and their help!"
2 - 6 December 2024
Sibéal Davitt
Arts Council Agility Award - Traditional Arts residency with Emily Kilkenny Roddy.
4 - 8 November 2024
RENN MIANO, BLACKMAGICRAWR
BLACKMAGICRAWR is an afro futurist exploration of weaving ancestral storytelling accompanied by present time responsive work/s through movement, backdropped by sonics and voice/breathwork. This ongoing focus on grounding the body and reenergizing stillness has accumulated in performances at: IMMA, Nuns Island, Live Collision, CCI Paris and The Complex. For this ITI at CoisCéim residency, Cami, Osaro, Renn, along with their A/V collaborator Sal, delved further into their project and create a repertoire of body poems.
October/November 2024
Mónica Muñoz
During my time at CoisCéim Studio, I developed ROLLING! with dancer Cristian Dirocie as part of my residency at ATU, Atlantic Technical University.
ROLLING! is an interactive performance for children aged 3 to 6. A dancer builds his own world with cardboard tubes in a visual performance about how to make sense of the world: transport, rotate, pile, drop, connect… A process of Trial and Error to find out how things work that engages with everyday materials in a fun and challenging way. We performed ROLLING in early years settings and schools in Castlebar and Galway in December 2024 and there are more performances for 2025 to come.
Spring 2024
Katie Honan
Writer and Performer
As a theatre maker, Katie was awarded an Arts Council Bursary to develop her movement practice through the lens of neuroscience — supporting the growth of a unique physical language in her work, with research keenly focussed on kinaesthetic empathy in cultural and creative practices. The investigation included how to bridge the gap between spectator and performer, by considering an audience’s sensory systems. She has collaborated with nationally acclaimed theatre practitioners, while also engaging with psychologists and neuroscientists at the South East Technology University. Through the support of CoisCéim, Katie was afforded dance studio space to explore with Megan Kennedy of Junk Ensemble.
Summer 2023/Spring 2024
Alex O'Neill
January-March 2024
Laura Murphy
Laura continued work on her film THIS IS IT 8 DANCE PORTRAITS, which premiered in spring 2024.
3-7 January 2024
Aoife McAtamney
‘My working year started the 8th of January. I knew in the months ahead I would be presenting a record of original music and a multi-disciplinary film, two big projects that needed me fresh and focused. I needed time to be in a rehearsal space alone, to hear my thoughts and begin practice after the Christmas holidays. The space gave me a moment of calm before my official working year began and a time of reflection to help me gather my thoughts and prepare my body, giving me the best start to a creative year of work.’ - Aoife McAtamney
December 2023 & January 2024
Gap Day 2023-2024
SOPHIE COOTE & BRIAN KEEGAN
Gap Day gives professional freelance theatre practitioners across the island of Ireland paid time to think, dream and plan. It is run by Michelle Cahill with Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow and is supported by the Arts Council.
November 2023
Honey & Lemon
Multidisciplinary artists Millie Daniel-Dempsey & Amy Robyn Lyster.
November 2023
Shane Lambert
Photographer / Dancer / Filmmaker
November/December 2023
Jonathan Mitchell
Choreographer
May 2023
Emily Kilkenny Roddy
Choreographer
Rehearsals for RUINING THE ACT – performed by Sibeál Davitt, Millie Daniel Dempsey, Rosie Mullin & Emily Kilkenny Roddy.
January & February 20233
Gap Day 2022-2023
MICHELLE CAHILL and MICHELLE READ.
Gap Day gives professional freelance theatre practitioners across the island of Ireland paid time to think, dream and plan. It is run by Lian Bell with Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow and is supported by the Arts Council.
September 2022
Favour Odusola
Arts Council Bursary Project
Winter 2022 – Spring 2023
Laura Murphy
Choreographer
“With a warm and bright studio and a cosy atrium space, the CoisCéim space is a supportive haven for me to work in.”
August – September 2022
Hot Brown Honey & Dublin Fringe Festival
HIVE CITY LEGACY: Dublin Chapter rehearsals
“CoisCéim was a brilliant home for Hive City Legacy, Dublin Chapter. Great natural light, resources, space and independence. The team at CoisCeim were also welcoming, helpful and flexible with us. Couldn’t recommend more!”
June 2022
Jim Roche
COUNTERPARTS | Livestream, Oslo Bloomsday Society
“What a fabulous place to rehearse + marvellous people”
February 2022
Bluehouse Theatre
TWO HUNDRED DEER TO EVERY LION development | Smock Alley’s Scene + Heard Festival 2022
November 2021
Jonathan Mitchell
Arts Council Agility Award Recipient