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PRODUCTION HISTORY

2026 SEASON​​

19th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival

  • ​Misterman by Enda Walsh

  • Enda Walsh Mixtape: A Concert Experience

  • Enda Walsh Reading Series: Disco Pigs, Medicine, The Same, & The Twits ​

  • Ard Seanchaí: A Gala Celebration of Enda Walsh 

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2025 SEASON​​

Plays in May Reading Series

18th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival

  • Irishtown by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth

  • Tom Moran is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar by Tom Moran

  • Fight Night by Gavin Kostick

  • In Two Minds by Joanne Ryan

  • A Cop, a Cabbie and a Crusader by John McDonagh

  • Breezy Point by Rosie Coursey

  • A Night in November by Marie Jones 

  • Loud Memory by Ed Gavagan 

  • Bumbled by Bernard McMullan & Colin Hamell

  • Lucky Me! by Tim Connell

  • ​No One Is Coming by Sinead O'Brien 

  • Granny Jackson Is Dead by Zoe Seaton

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2024 SEASON​​

Plays in May Reading Series

17th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival

  • ​Philadelphia, Here I Come! by Brian Friel

  • KING by Pat Kinevane

  • Peace & Love in Brooklyn by Eamon O'Tuama

  • Last Call for Babe Reilly by Marianne Driscoll

  • The Double Bass by Sean Gormley

  • Bumbled by Bernard McMullen & Colin Hamell

  • Herself by Tim McGillicuddy

  • The Worst Cafe in the World by Big Telly & Tiny Dynamite

  • Boann and the Well of Wisdom by John Kearns

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2023 SEASON​​

Plays in May Reading Series

16th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival

  • Heaven by Eugene O’Brien

  • Frankenstein’s Monster is Drunk and the Sheep Have All Jumped the Fences by Zoe Seaton

  • Beauty and the Beast by Scott Kennedy

  • Endgame by Samuel Beckett 

  • The Smuggler by Ronán Noone

  • Herself by Tim McGillicuddy

  • The Funny Thing About Death by Kim Kalish

  • It's in the Play by Orlagh Cassidy & Kate Lardner​​

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2022 SEASON​​

A Kid Like Rishi by Kees Roorda

Plays in May Reading Series

15th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival

  • Mia Mama by Des Bishops ​

  • ​Duck Duck Goose by Caitríona Daly

  • City by John McCarthy

  • Transatlantic Tales by AboutFace Theatre Company

  • A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Anne Ryan

  • Boann by John Kearns 

  • Tales from the Quay by Paul Walsh

  • A Bolt From D'Blue by David Gilna 

  • In the Middle of the Fields by Deirdre Kinahan 

  • Off the Meter by John McDonagh 

  • Transatlantic Living by Clare O'Malley 

  • The 8th by Aideen Kane, Lucy Kennedy, & Maeve O'Boyle

  • Scór on Broadway by Symphony Space

  • Bloody Sunday by Richard Norton Taylor

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2021 SEASON​​

European Month of Culture NYC

Plays in May Reading Series

14th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival

  • Mustard by Eva O'Connor

  • The Scourge by Michelle Dooley Mahon

  • The Gifts You Gave in the Dark by Darren Murphy

  • Under the Albert Clock by Emily Dedakis, Gina Donnelly, Sarah Gordon, Fionnuala Kennedy, & Alice Malseed

  • Transatlantic Tales by AboutFACE Theatre Company 

  • Stay Home and Stay Safe by Geraldine Aaron, Honor Molloy, Derek Murphy, & Ursula Rani Sarma 

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2020 SEASON​​

13th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival

  • Maz and Bricks by Eva O'Connor 

  • The 8th by Seanie Sugre

  • The Scourge by Michelle Dooley Mahon

  • London Assurance by Dion Boucicault

  • Appropriate by Sarah-Jane Scott

  • Belfast 2050 by Alice Malseed, Fionnuala Kennedy, Gina Donnelly, Emily DeDakis and Sarah Gordon 

  • Round Room by Honor Molloy 

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2019 SEASON​​

The Land of Promise by Turlough McConnell

Plays in May Reading Series

Breaking Ground Series: Plays on Migration

12th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival

  • Alone It Stands by John Breen 

  • On Blueberry Hill by Sebastian Barry

  • The Morning After the Life Before by Ann Blake

  • Blinkered by Patricia Byrne

  • The Smuggler by Ronan Noone 

  • Inside Danny's Box by Derek Murphy​

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2018 SEASON​​

Beautiful Day Without You by Marco Calvani

Plays in May Reading Series

Building Pain by Lisa Tierney-Keogh, Geraldine Hughes, Brenda Meaney, Honor Molloy, & Sarah Street

11th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival

  • Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh 

  • Party Face by Isobel Mahon 

  • Dying for It by Derek Murphy 

  • Jimmy Titanic by Bernard McMullan

  • The Only Jealousy of Emer by Ray Yeats 

  • Guy Walks into a Bar by Don Creedon

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2017 SEASON​​

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 

Plays in May Reading Series

10th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival

  • Origin 15th Anniversary Celebration​

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2016 SEASON​​

Poison by Lot Vekemans

The Hundred We Are by Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Plays in May Reading Series

9th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival

  • The Birds by Connor McPherson

  • Afterplay by Brian Friel

  • Quietly by Owen McCafferty

  • How to Keep An Alien by Sonya Kelly 

  • Bears in Space by Eoghan Quinn

  • Wilde at Home by David Grant 

  • Crackskull Row by Honor Molloy 

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2015 SEASON​​

The International by Tim Ruddy 

Plays in May Reading Series

8th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival

  • The Quare Land by John McManus

  • Selfie by Pat Shortt 

  • Made in China by Des Bishop​

  • Pondling by Genevieve Hulme-Beaman

  • Language UnBecoming a Lady by Miles Breen 

  • Little Thing Big Thing by Donal O'Kelly

  • Stoopdreamer by Pat Fenton

  • Python by Mark Byrne

  • Celebrity Autobiography featuring Michael Urie, Tate Donovan, Christopher Fitzgerald, & Geraldine Hughes

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2014 SEASON​​

Plays in May Reading Series

7th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival

  • Boy and Girls by Carys Coburn

  • The McGowan Trilogy by Seamus Scanlon 

  • Waiting for Goddott by Samuel Beckett

  • Man in the Moon by Pearse Elliott

  • Port Authority by Conor McPherson

  • Waiting for IKEA by Georgina McKevitt & Jacinta Sheerin

  • The Big Green Apple by The Attic Studio

  • Docks, Jocks and Socks by Anto Nolan 

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2013 SEASON​​

Stop the Tempo by Gianina Cărbunariu

Plays in May Reading Series

6th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival

  • The Compass Rose by Ronan Noone

  • The Wheelchair on my Face by Sonya Kelly

  • A Lady is Waiting by Anto Nolan

  • The International by Tim Ruddy

  • The Cure by Conal Creedon

  • McGoldrick's Thread by Marianne Driscoll

  • The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle by Ross Dungan 

  • The Morons by Dan McCormick

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2012 SEASON​​

Tiny Dynamite by Abi Morgan

Plays in May Reading Series

5th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival

  • Hard Times: An American Musical by Larry Kirwan

  • New Girl in Town by Bob Merrill & George Abbott 

  • For Love by Laoisa Sexton

  • Jimmy Titanic by Bernard McMullan

  • Brendan by Ronan Noone​

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2011 SEASON​​

Ivan and the Dogs by Hattie Naylor

Breaking Ground New Play Series 

Plays in May Reading Series

4th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival

  • Bogboy by Deirdre Kinahan

  • Lucia's Chapters of Coming Forth by Day by Sharon Fogarty

  • Noah and the Tower Flower by Sean McLoughlin

  • Reflections by Jennifer Johnston & Bernard McMullan

  • Dublin by Lamplight by Michael West

  • Cirque de Légume by Jaimie Carswell & Nancy Trotter Landry​

  • Temporal Powers by Teresa Deevy

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2010 SEASON​​

Exit/Entrance by Aidan Matthews 

Plays in May Reading Series

3rd Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival​​

  • Wife to James Whelan by Teresa Deevy

  • ​The Prophet of Monto by John Paul Murphy

  • Absolution by Owen O'Neill 

  • This Is What We Sang by Gavin Kostick

  • Hue and Cry by Deirdre Kinahan

  • Trans-Euro Express by Gary Duggan

  • The Holy Ground by Dermot Bolger

  • Rat in the Skull by Ron Hutchinson

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2009 SEASON​​

Leaves of Glass by Philip Ridley

Spinning the Times by Geraldine Aron, Lucy Caldwell, Rosalind Haslett, Rosemary Jenkinson, & Belinda McKeon

Plays in May Reading Series

2nd Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival​​

  • Cell by Paula Meehan

  • The Pride of Parnell Street by Sebastian Barry

  • After Luke/When I Was God by Conal Creedon

  • Is Life Worth Living? by Lennox Robinson 

  • Tales From Rainwater Pond by Billy Roche

  • Walking the Road by Dermot Bolger

  • Beyond the Pale by Barbara Hammond

  • The Good Thief by Conor McPherson

  • Trad by Mark Doherty

  • Blood Guilty by Antoine Ó Flatharta

  • The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde & Brenda Bell

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2008 SEASON​​

End of Lines by Gary Duggan, Abbie Spellen, Ursula Rani Sarma, Pat Kinevane, & Morna Regan

Plays in May Reading Series

1st Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival​​

  • Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh ​

  • Mojo Mickyo by Owen McCafferty

  • ​Love, Peace and Robbery by Liam Heylin

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2007 SEASON​​

The Shape of Metal by Thomas Kilroy

Plays in May Reading Series

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2006 SEASON​​

Clocks and Whistles by Samuel Adamson

Trousers by David Parnell & Paul Meade

Plays in May Reading Series

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2005 SEASON​​

Crestfall by Mark O'Rowe

Communion by Aidan Matthews 

Plays in May Reading Series

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2004 SEASON​​

Plays in May Reading Series

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2003 SEASON​​

Plays in May Reading Series​

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2002 SEASON​​

Misterman by Enda Walsh

Rundown by Mark O'Rowe​

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