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Deirdre Dwyer
set and costume designer
deirdredwyer@gmail.com
Education and Training
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Post Graduate Diploma in Theatre Design, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 2008 2009 and currently completing an MA in Theatre Design from RWCMD.
Trainee Theatre Designer in the Rough Magic SEEDS3 training initiative for emerging theatre artists
from 2006 to 2007.
B.A. in Drama and Theatre Studies and English in University College Cork graduating with first class
honours Oct 2004.
Selected Design for Theatre
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Costume Designer, The Memory Box, Equinox Theatre Company, KCat, Callan, Summer 2013.
Costume Designer, The Alizar Tree, Little Red Kettle, Waterford, Summer 2013.
Costume and Set Designer, Witches, Ruairi Donovan Choreography, The Lough, Cork, 2013.
Costume and Set Designer, The Scarlet Letter, Conflicted Theatre, Millennium Hall, Cork, 2013.
Costume and Set Designer, Fifty Ways, Theatre Abandon, The Mac, Belfast, 2013.
Costume and Set Designer, Bug, Brokencrow, Half Moon Theatre, Cork, 2013.
Costume and Set Designer, Pondlife and I Caught Crabs in Walberswick, LAMDA Linbury Rep,
London 2013.
Costume Designer, Jezebel, Rough Magic, Project Cube, Autumn 2012.
Costume and Set Designer, Flatpack, Ulysses Opera Theatre, Absolute Fringe, September 2012.
Costume Designer, Pearl’s Colour Dream, Little Red Kettle, Waterford, Summer 2012.
Set and Costume Designer, Blátha Bána, Graffiti Theatre Company, Summer 2012.
Costume Designer, Berlin Love Tour, Playgroup, Absolut Fringe, Dublin 2010, Fierce Festival
Birmingham 2012, Cork Midsummer Festival 2012.
Set and Costume Designer, Love All, Cheery Wild Productions, Clonmel Junction Festival 2011,
national tour Summer 2012 and Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012
Costume Designer, Mantle, Broken Crow, Spring 2012.
Set Designer, The Wiz, Tivoli Theatre, Dublin. The Teacher’s Musical Society, 2012.
Set and Costume Designer, Melmoth the Wanderer, Big Telly, Spring 2012.
Costume Designer, A Serving of Pinter, Half Moon Theatre, Cork, Clinic Media and Moo Cow
Productions, 2011.
Costume Designer, The Girl That Turned into a Deer, Garter Lane Theatre, Waterford, Little Red
Kettle, 2011.
Set Designer, My Fair Lady, O’Reilly Theatre, Dublin. The Teacher’s Musical Society, 2011.
Set and Costume Designer, Dealer’s Choice and Dancing at Lughnasa, LAMDA Linbury Rep, London
2011.
Costume Designer and Set Assistant to Todd Rosenthal, The Beauty Queen of Leenane,
Waterford Theatre Royal, Waterford 2010.
Costume and Set Designer, The Dark of the Moon, Garter Lane Theatre, WYA, Waterford 2010.
Set and Costume Designer, Broken Croi –Heart Briste, Filmbase, Dublin Fringe Festival 2009, Project
Cube 2010, Cork Arts Theatre , Cork Midsummer Festival 2010.
Set and Costume Designer, A Going Concern, Nabakov’s Gloves and DNA, LAMDA Linbury Rep,
London 2010.
Set and Costume Designer, Honk!, Cork Opera House, Cork 2010.
Costume Designer, West Side Story, Cork Opera House, Cork 2010.
Set and Costume Designer, August: Ossage County, Bute Theatre, RWCMD, Cardiff, 2009.
Set Designer, Caligula, Project Cube, Dublin, Rough Magic SEEDS3, 2007 and Dublin Theatre
Festival 2008.
Set and Costume Designer, The Coming World, Project Cube, Dublin, Making Strange, 2007.
Set Designer, Pilgrims of the Night, Project Cube, Dublin, Rough Magic SEEDS3, 2007.
Assistant to Designer Alison Chitty, SEEDS3, Carmen, Athens Festival, 2007.
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Set and Costume Designer, The Train Show, Cork to Cobh Train, Cork Midsummer Festival,
Playgroup, 2006.
Set and Costume Designer, 4.48 Psychosis, Project Cube, Dublin Fringe Festival,
Rough Magic Seeds2, 2005.
Set and Costume Designer, Dark Week, Everyman Palace Theatre Cork Midsummer Festival,
Playgroup, 2005.
Costume Designer, The White Quadrangle, UCC’s Quadrangle, half/angel, Cork, 2005.
Teaching and Mentoring
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Costume Design Tutor, Tenderfoot, mentored transition year students for in the Tenderfoot Project,
directed by Veronica Coburn in the Civic, Tallaght, January 2013.
Lecturer in Theatre Design at UCC. Taught a ten week module in Theatre Design to final year
students, BA in Drama and Theatre Studies,2011.
Costume and Set Designer in LAMDA, when designing for LAMDA in 2011 and 2010 I worked with
students from the Stage Management department and mentored a student from their Design MA.
Consultant Designer at UCC, advising and consulting with Second year students BA in Drama and
Theatre Studies for their second year productions Mary and Lizzzie, 2011 and Fear and Misery in the
Third Reich, 2010.
Production Manager at UCC, for the Final Year Students on their end of year shows. This included
technical and design tutorials and managing their get in weeks, BA in Drama and Theatre Studies
2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Design for Film
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Costume Designer, Leanbh, Pic de Jer Productions, Cork, 2012.
Costume Designer, The Way Through, Pic de Jer Productions, Cork, 2012.
Costume Designer, Partly Cloudy, Medicine Hat Films, Cork 2012.
Costume Designer, Tom Sceadu, Pic de Jer Productions, Cork 2011.
Costume Designer and Production Designer, Cork, The Christening, Underground Films, Cork
2010.
Awards and Nominations
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Flatpack, for which I designed the set and costumes was nominated for Best Production, Best Off site
production and Best Design, Absolut Fringe 2012 and Best Opera in the Irish Times Theatre Awards
2012.
Awarded the first Pat Murray Bursary, a bursary to facilitate a young theatre artist through specialised
study or work placement, 2008.
Awarded an Arts Council Travel and Training Bursary to study at RWCMD, 2008.
Broken Croi – Heart Briste for which I was the set and costume designer was nominated for the
Bewley’s Theatre Little Gem Award at the Dublin Fringe festival 2009 and Best New Play in the Irish
Times Theatre Awards 2009.
Caligula, for which I was the Set Designer, was nominated for Best Production at the Irish Times
Theatre Awards 2008.
Dark Week, for which I was Set and Costume Designer, was nominated for a Judges Special Award at
the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2006.
Referees
Sean Crowley,
Head of Theatre Design,
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama,
Cardiff,
Cf10 3ER,
Wales.
Lynne Parker,
Artistic Director,
Rough Magic Theatre Company,
5/6 South Great George's Street
Dublin 2
Republic of Ireland.
Tel: + 44 (0)2920 342854
Tel: +353 (0)1 671 9278
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