We’re thrilled to host writer, performer and autism and disability advocate Eleanor Walsh at the Tea Houses as part of the Gap Day national programme, providing professional freelance theatre practitioners across Ireland paid time to think, dream and plan.
Meet Eleanor Walsh:
“I am currently finishing my first full-length play, Become a Friend, with Barnstorm Theatre Company, intended for production next year. I am also developing Body/Doubling, a new devised work about autism and sexuality, with Al Bellamy; and a documentary theatre piece with hurler, Gaelic footballer, and bainisteoir Christy Walsh. As a performer, recent credits include Chronically Hopeful (Musici Ireland), Grace (Graffiti Theatre Company), Yellow (Jody O’Neill), Daughter of God (Asylum Productions), and What I (Don’t) Know About Autism (Abbey Theatre). I also consult on Relaxed Performance and autistic representation, including on Brambles (Cara Christie), What I (Don’t) Know About Autism (Abbey Theatre), MOOP! (Game Theory), and The Rover (TU Conservatoire). I am a Youth Ambassador for AsIAm and I am featured in “Be Inspired! Young Irish People Changing the World” by Sarah Webb, published by O’Brien Press.”
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Gap Days are available to directors, theatre makers, writers, designers, dramaturgs, production managers and creative producers – essentially, anyone who has a prime creative role in the making of the work.
A Gap Day enables people to take time out and dedicate a day to the creative research and thinking they haven’t been able to do lately. How they spend the day is up to them: reading, writing, thinking, drawing, walking, dreaming. Whatever they don’t normally have time to do; whatever they think is needed.
Gap Day is kindly Supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
