CARMEL O’REILLY is a director and actor living in Cambridge, MA. Originally from Fermanagh in N. Ireland, she founded the Súgán Theatre, a company devoted to contemporary Irish plays. Besides the Súgán, she has directed for many theatre companies in the Boston-area including the American Repertory Theatre. She is a two-time winner of the Norton Award for Outstanding Director. (The Nortons are Boston’s premier theatre awards.) For Tír Na, she also directed Trad, Jimmy Titanic and Return of the Winemaker.

Writer BERNARD MCMULLAN – A native of Belfast, Bernard now lives in Connecticut and is the author of screenplays – The Hidden Wake, The Chicken House and Soon. Bernard also wrote the award-winning Jimmy Titanic for Tir Na Theatre which played Off Broadway and has toured extensively in the US and Ireland. Most recently he penned the hit show ‘Return of the Winemaker’ which the Boston Globe described as “Theatrical gold.”

Colin Hamell, Producing/Artistic Director of Tir Na Theatre in Boston, has performed extensively in the US and Europe. Favorite shows include Trad, by Mark Doherty (Sugan and Tir Na Theatre), The Beauty Queen of Leenane starring Julie Harris, by Martin McDonagh (W.H.A.T), Return of the Winemaker, by Bernard McMullan (Tir Na), and The Weir, by Conor McPherson (New Rep). He toured his one-man show Jimmy Titanic, by Bernard McMullan, throughout the US, including an Off Broadway run at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York City and multiple locations in Ireland and New Zealand. Jimmy Titanic had its World premiere at Origin’s First Irish in 2013. He is currently touring his new one-man show, Bumbled, premiered at the Foundry in Cambridge MA, and has played in New York City as part of the Origin First Irish Theatre Festival and in the Cork Fit Up Festival, Ireland.