Barry Fitzgerald

Artist Maker Director Performer Facilitator

I'm a queer, Irish performer and maker based between the UK and Ireland. My pronouns are he/they.

My practice is concerned with the intersections of identity. Playing with form and connecting with communities is at its heart - experimental work that is aesthetically rich, accessible, thought-provoking and fun.

I've worked with companies such as Complicité and Punchdrunk, and devised work shown at venues including the Arcola Theatre, Birmingham REP, Bush Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre, Contact Theatre, The Glory, Hackney Showroom and Shoreditch Town Hall. I'm currently an artist-in-residence at VISUAL Carlow and associate artist with Outbox Theatre, a company of LGBTQIA+ creatives who ‘make theatre queerly’.

An experienced facilitator, director and teacher, I've worked on projects with the Almeida Theatre, ArtsEd London, Barbican, Gendered Intelligence, Hackney Shed, London Bubble, Mountview, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Court, Unicorn Theatre and University of East London among others.

Outside theatre I have worked on the festival team at the BFI, helping produce film festivals such as the BFI London Film Festival and BFI Flare LGBTQIA+ Festival.

www.barryfitz.com
www.outboxtheatre.com

Credits

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, VISUAL Carlow (Ireland), 2021- ongoing

ASSOCIATE ARTIST, Outbox Theatre, Ongoing.

VISITING LECTURER, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Ongoing.

LEAD DIRECTOR, TransActing Project, Gendered Intelligence, Ongoing.

LEAD FACILITATOR, Hackney Shed, Ongoing.

WRITER / PERFORMER, The Devotions (short film), 2021

PERFORMER, The Lost Lending Library (Coventry City of Culture), Punchdrunk, 2021.

RECIPIENT, Theatre Bursary, Arts Council Ireland, 2020-21

DIRECTOR, Fun Home, Mountview, Jan - Mar 2021

DIRECTOR, Dear Evan Hansen, Mountview, June-July 2021

RECIPIENT, Arts Act Grant, Carlow Arts Office, Ireland, 2020

ARTIST MENTOR, Barbican, Sept 2019 - Mar 2020.

ARTIST, MAKE Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland, 2019.

PERFORMER, I'll Take You to Mrs Cole, Complicité, June - Sept 2019.

DEVISER / PERFORMER, And the Rest of Me Floats, Bush Theatre, 2019.

LEAD FACILITATOR, The End of Eddy, Unicorn Theatre/Edinburgh International Festival, July - Oct 2018.

VISITING DIRECTOR, Transarte Festival Brazil, various locations, 2018.

DIRECTOR, [BLANK], Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Webber Douglas Studio, 2018.

FACILITATOR / DIRECTOR, Almeida Theatre, 2017 - 2020

CREATIVE ASSOCIATE, Lies Pauwels Project, Royal Court Theatre, July 2017 - Mar 2018.

WRITER / PERFORMER, A New Order, The Yard/BAC, 2017.

DIRECTOR, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Arts Ed London, 2017.

DEVISER / PERFORMER, affection, The Glory/Stan's Café Birmingham, 2016.

DIRECTOR, Lore, London Irish Centre, 2016.

DIRECTOR, A Time and a Place, Dare Say Theatre / National Trust Sutton House, 2015.

DEVISER/PERFORMER, Hookup, Hackney Showrooms, 2015

Training

BA Contemporary Arts (Drama with Dance), Manchester Met. Uni

MA Acting, Arts Ed London.

Location

London

Experience

5-10 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Dance
  • Film - documentary
  • Film - feature
  • Film - short
  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - drama
  • Visual arts

What I do

  • Choreography
  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Facilitating
  • Movement Direction
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled artists
  • Working with young people
  • Working with young people with special educational needs
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

Irish, French (basic).

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