Wonderland’s Artistic Director
& Workshops Leader Alice Coghlan
Teaching Specialities: Acting, voice, singing, comedy and
clown, design, writing and directing.
Alice holds a Directing MA from Middlesex
University and graduated with First Class Honours
in Drama & English from Trinity College Dublin and
The University of California at Berkeley in 2001.
In 2003 Alice founded Wonderland Productions for
whom she has written and directed Sylvia’s Quest,
Life Shop till you Drop! and The Spook Show;
translated and directed Goldoni’s La Locandiera, Molière’s The Miser and the
opera Pagliacci and directed and adapted Dubliners, Gulliver’s Travels and
The Picture of Dorian Gray and directed The Hostage, The Seagull After
Chekhov, The Christmas Cabaret and Molière’s L’Amour Medicin. Other
recent directing credits include King Lear Review Theatre Royal Waterford,
Sensual Food and The Red Shoes both for The Patravadi Theatre, Thailand
and A Tourist’s Guide to Terrorism at The Edinburgh Festival. She also holds
a Gold Medal in LAMDA Acting.
Alice has Staff/assistant directed for a number of companies including Opera
Ireland, The Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera, California Shakespeare
Festival and The Abbey Theatre. She is also a script reader for The Abbey
Theatre Literary Department, and is a regular participant on The Next Stage –
Dublin Theatre Festival’s Emerging Artists program.
Alice co-founded Wonderland Workshops with Sarajane McCarthy in
Dundrum in 2005. She fell in love with teaching aged 14, when she first
started teaching drama and art at Badby Brownies and has since gone on to
teach drama in Italy, USA and Thailand. In Ireland, she has taught at DIT,
Belvedere College and Our Ladies Terenure and a number of stage schools.
For her, teaching at Wonderland’s workshops is hugely rewarding and fun.
She loves to witness how children grow and develop over their years at the
workshop. An example of this is the little 7-year-old girl in Bray who is on our
poster, who was too nervous to go on stage, until Claire held her hand, who is
now 9 and centre stage at every Wonderland Workshop.
Performer, Drama & Improvisation Facilitator,
Graeme Singleton.
Teaching specialities: Comedy, clown, acting, improvisation &
comedy sketch writing.
Graeme Singleton graduated from Liberties College in
2005, where he studied Performing Arts. Graeme also
played many leading roles including Stanley in
“Streetcar Named Desire” and Riff in “West Side Story”.
More recently he performed in Classic Stage Ireland’s
“Blood Ties” and Wonderlands Productions’ “Gullivers
Travels” where he received great reviews. He has been
regularly collaborating with the company since Being Miss Ross in 2005.
Graeme has had a lot of success on the comedy circuit. He is a member of
well known improvisational group “The Craic Pack”. Graeme is also a member
of
the
popular
comedy
sketch
group
Ghost
Train
Willy
www.ghosttrainwilly.com. He has performed with these groups throughout the
country and in many festivals such as the Kilkenny Cat Laughs and the
Galway Arts Festival.
Graeme works as a Clown Doctor for the Humour Foundation of Ireland.
He has also appeared on RTEs Republic of Telly on numerous occasions and
presented on RTE jnr.
“Graeme Singleton is particularly impressive. He makes the characters
desolate and inevitable future heartbreakingly clear”
Emer O’Kelly- Sunday Independent
Performer, Speech and Drama Teacher &
Workshops Leader Claire Jenkins
Teaching Specialities: Acting, voice, improvisation,
Shakespeare, devising, play writing.
Claire is a graduate of The BA in Acting
Programme at Queen Margaret University in
Edinburgh. Other training has included Physical
Theatre at “The International Theatre Lab” in Riga,
Acting for Camera at “The Actors Space” In
Barcelona, Shakespeare in Performance with
Natural Shocks and Brigid Panet at RADA and
Corporeal Mime with Blue Raincoat Theatre
Company in Sligo. Claire holds a Gold Medal with
Honours from The London Academy of Music and Drama.
Claire has worked professionally as an actor both in Ireland and abroad. Work
has included The Clinic RTE and Parallel productions, The TreeKeeper
Southernman Films, Helena and Titania in A Midsummer Nights Dream,
Emma in My Best Friend, and Various Roles in The Irish Actors European
Tour. Claire's relationship with Wonderland began with the title role in the
company’s hit touring production of Goldonis “La Locandiera” or The Mistress
of the Inn. (Numerous National Tours and The Edinburgh Theatre Festival, La
Locandiera will tour again this year).
Teaching has always been a tandem passion for Claire, who has taught
extensively for 6 years. Apart from facilitating Wonderland workshops, she
runs the Drama Department at Ireland’s leading Street Dance school “Streets
Ahead” where she has guided her students through Speech and Drama
exams and Creative playmaking. She also works freelance with many primary
schools and is a volunteer with Roddy Doyle’s Creative writing organisation
Fighting Words. Claire has also worked as a director and a writer for children
and young adults.
Performer, Director, Drama and Dance Facilitator
& Workshops Leader Amy Flood.
Teaching specialities: Acting, Musical Theatre, Dance,
Movement, Choreography, Devising & Improvisation.
Amy holds a BA Hons. In Drama Studies and
German from Trinity College, Dublin and has also
studied Dance at Sallynoggin College of Further
Education.
Amy works as a professional actor both here and
abroad. Her most recent role being that of Baylen,
in an all-female production of Glengarry Glen Ross, with Current Theatrics,
Las Vegas, for which she was also Assistant Director. Amy’s acting credits for
Wonderland include Ensemble in Gulliver’s Travels and Mary Jane, Annie
Chandler and Mary Sinicio in James Joyce’s Dubliners, additional credits
include Chorus in Iphigenia in Aulis, Classic Stage Ireland, various roles in
Love in the Time of Social Networking, Neon Fringe Productions,
Veronica/Martha in The Passion, Ruth Pe Palileo, and Erin in Ismene,
TattleTale Theatre Company. Amy’s additional Directing credits include
Ismene, TattleTale Theatre Company, which she co-directed and established
with Aislinn Ní Uallacháin and Assistant Director on Wonderland Productions’
recent shows Sylvia’s Quest and Gulliver’s Travels. She is also Wonderland’s
Stage Manager on their touring show The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Amy has been teaching for a number of years working as a Substitute
Teacher at both primary and secondary levels, as a Musical Theatre/Drama
facilitator with FYI Dance Club, Wicklow Summer Camp, St. Joseph’s GNS,
Rathnew as a Musical Theatre/Drama facilitator and Wonderland Productions
as a Drama/Dance facilitator (since 2011). Amy enjoys teaching and loves to
encourage the natural creativity every child possesses and to see each child
become more confident in their own abilities.
Opera Singer
& Workshop Leader Donna Gallagher
Specialities: Music, Singing, Vocal
Technique and Acting on the Operatic Stage.
A native of Dublin, Donna Gallagher
has recently returned to Europe after a
number of years residing in the USA.
Donna has performed in the US, the UK,
Italy, Spain, Portugal and Germany.
Roles include Queen of the Night/The
Magic Flute, Norina/Don Pasquale,
Clorinda/La Cenerentola, Susanna/The Marriage of Figaro and
Lauretta/Gianni Schicchi. Concert performances include Mozart’s Exsultate
Jubilate in Italy and in Handel’s Messiah in South Carolina.
Donna has taught voice to students of all levels and ages (5-85), working with
part-time and full-time singers. At college level, she has taught in Mater Dei
(Dublin) and Converse College (USA). She has also taught private voice
lessons in St. Joseph of Cluny (Killiney), Mount Temple (Clontarf) and The
Lawson Academy of the Arts (South Carolina). She is passionate about vocal
health and has devised and facilitated workshops on vocal health and basic
technique with choirs and schools in Ireland and the USA. Donna loves to
help young performers face their fears and sing in front of an audience, this
she finds, is one of the most rewarding moments one can experience as a
teacher!