Biography

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Ita is a shape shifting artist who uses her background in theatre to create projects based on human experiences; exploring, questioning and expanding our interaction with one self, the other and the natural world.

Working collaboratively and globally, the projects become inclusive instruments of profound change and connection.

Her artistic process is different for every project, but like all things begins with a small seed of an idea. She then invites participants to explore and discuss this idea through a series of fun and curious workshops, using various methods or structures that fit the situation. After a short period of reflection, she then collaborates and devises with other artists to create multidisciplinary interactive theatre shows in site relevant and unusual locations.

In previous projects she has worked with a group of women to write and perform a new version of The Vagina Monologues. Has presented creative findings of life as an asylum seeker with a men’s group and collaborated with mothers to show the reality of parenting in current day.

She was a receiptant of an Arts Participation bursary where she collaborated with a textile artist to create a site-specific minimal waste show about societies relationship with fast fashion.

Her process and work extends beyond the traditional format and is a place that is open to transformation and change for participants and audience members.

Awards / Residency / Education

2019
  • ArtLinks Bursary – Kilkenny Arts Office
  • Tyrone Guthrie Residency
2018
  • Site Specific Theatre Making with Dante or Die – Belltable Limerick
  • Arts Act Grant – The Home Project – Kilkenny Arts Office
2017
  • AIC R&D Bursary – Create Ireland
2016
  • Arts Participation Bursary – Arts Council of Ireland
2015
  • ArtLinks Collaboration Bursary – Kilkenny County Council
2014
  • AIC Scheme R&D with Brokentalkers – Arts Council/Create
  • ArtLinks Artist Development Bursary – Kilkenny County Council
2013
  • INCUBATE residency – Barnstorm Theatre Company
2012
  • Hons Degree in Humanities (Drama major) – St Patricks’ College, Carlow
2011
  • Theatre Internship – The Performance Corporation

Work / Projects

2018
  • The HOME Project, Co-Creator with Hannah McCormick (R&D) Kilkenny City Library, Kilkenny
2017
  • Waiting (The Sanctuary Project) Co-creator with Donal Gallenger Garter Lane Theatre, Waterford
  • Buy Me (The Consuming Project) Project creator A site-specific multi-disciplinary performance about fashion
  • Pulled by Niamh Moroney – Director Devious Theatre & Central Arts
2016
  • RISE (The 1916 Project & Kilkenny County Council) Director A site inspired promenade community performance for 1916 commemoration
  • This Laundry Life (Project Women) Director/Project Creator
    A site specific performance about parenting
2015
  • The Last Brewer (The Brewery Project) Writer & Director Site-specific community production performed at the Smithwick’s Experience
  • Reality Parenting (Cuidiu Kilkenny) Director/Project Creator
    A devised performance about motherhood, Barnstorm Theatre
2014
  • Shifting Shapes & Places (Project Women) Director / Project Creator A movement performance about the expectations placed on women by the media
2012/13
  • The Monologues (Barnstorm Theatre) Director/Project Co-ordinator
    Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny