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CAL PERFORMANCES PRESENTS CAST

Wednesday–Friday, May 4–6, 2011, 8pm Saturday, May 7, 2011, 2pm & 8pm Sunday, May 8, 2011, 3pm & 8pm cast Tuesday–Friday, May 10–13, 2011, 8pm (in order of appearance) Saturday, May 14, 2011, 2pm & 8pm Eileen Dearbhla Molloy Zellerbach Playhouse Kate Ingrid Craigie† JohnnyPateenMike Dermot Crowley Claven Tadhg Murphy † Druid Atlantic Theater Company Bartley Laurence Kinlan† & Slippy Helen Clare Dunne† BabbyBobby Liam Carney† Doctor McSharry Paul Vincent O’ Mammy O’Dougal Nancy E. Carroll

† These actors appear with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association, pursuant to an exchange program between American Equity and Irish Equity.

Sets & Costumes Francis O’Connor Lights Davy Cunningham Sound John Leonard Composer Colin Towns U.S. Casting Laura Stanczyk Irish Casting Maureen Hughes Fight Director J. David Brimmer Company Stage Director Sarah Lynch Stage Manager David H. Lurie Assistant Stage Manager Sarah Lynch

Robert Day Robert Production Manager Eamonn Fox

crew The Cripple of Inishmaan Production Manager Eamonn Fox by Martin McDonagh Technical Manager Barry O’Brien Directed by Master Carpenter Gus Dewar Deputy Master Carpenter Tony Cording Druid is grant aided by the Arts Council of Ireland and gratefully acknowledges the support of Carpenter Peter Nelson Culture Ireland for funding its international touring program. The Cripple of Inishmaan Special Props Pete Casby, Matt Guinnane is presented as part of Imagine Ireland, Culture Ireland’s year-long season of Irish arts in Technician Shannon Light America in 2011. Scenic Painters Sandra Butler, Jason McCaffrey, Noel Tate, Dympna Tate Costume Supervisor Doreen McKenna Wigs & Make-Up Val Sherlock Publicist Kate Bowe PR Graphic Design Bite!Associates Production Photography Robert Day

The U.S. tour of The Cripple of Inishmaan is produced by David Eden Productions.

Cal Performances’ 2010–2011 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo.

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Druid and the Plays of Martin McDonagh ruid was founded by Garry Hynes, , The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Come DMick Lally and —graduates Back, Little Sheba (Broadway); Ages of the Moon, On February 1, 1996, Druid presented the first of the National University of Ireland, — Equivocation, Blasted, The American Pilot, performance of a new play by a then unknown and has had two artistic directors: Garry Hynes Blackbird, Bug and Killer Joe (New York pre- writer, Martin McDonagh, at the Town Hall (1975–1991 and 1995 to date) and Maeliosa mieres). Mr. Brimmer has also worked at the Theatre in Galway. The Beauty Queen of Leenane Stafford (1991–1994). Productions include: , Atlantic Theater, and its Druid production (with the Royal Court Silver Tassie (Galway; Irish and U.K. tours); Theatre Club, Theatre for a New Audience, Theatre, London) went on to become a smash The Gigli Concert (Galway Arts Festival & Irish Dallas Theater Center, Hartford Center Stage, hit all over the world and earned an unprece- tour); The Walworth Farce world( tour); The New Baltimore Centerstage and Guthrie. He has dented four on Broadway in 1998 Electric Ballroom; The Cripple of Inishmaan (Irish taught at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts and (with Atlantic Theater Company) for its Druid and U.K. tours and Atlantic Theater, New York); was a RADA Guest Instructor and the Strasberg cast and director. The Beauty Queen of Leenane Long Day’s Journey into Night (Galway and Institute and Yale. His favorite collabora- was followed by A Skull in Connemara and The Theatre Festival); Leaves (Galway and tors include Stella Adler, Joe Chaikin, JoAnne Lonesome West, in what became known as The , London); Empress of India Akalaitis, Ken Russell and Franco Zeffirelli. Leenane Trilogy, which over the period of five (Galway and Dublin Theatre Festival); The Year years toured to 31 venues on three continents. of the Hiker (Galway and Irish tour); DruidSynge Liam Carney (BabbyBobby) has performed In 2008, Druid premiered their new pro- (Galway Arts Festival, Dublin, Edinburgh in The Silver Tassie for Druid. His other the- duction of The Cripple of Inishmaan at the same International Festival, Inis Meáin; Minneapolis, ater credits include The Seafarer, Tales of Town Hall Theatre in Galway. With the same Festival New York); Sharon’s Ballycumber, The Playboy of the Western World, American partner, Atlantic Theater Company, Grave; Sive; On Raftery’s Hill; The Beauty Queen Romeo and Juliet, Homeland, Portia Coughlan, The Cripple of Inishmaan toured the length of Leenane; The Leenane Trilogy (Royal Court Done Up Like a Kipper (); There and breadth of Ireland and to Oxford and co-productions); Lovers’ Meeting; Conversations Came a Gypsy Riding (Livin’ Dred Theatre Co.); Manchester in the United Kingdom before play- on a Homecoming; Bailegangaire; The Shaugh­ Frozen (Tall Tales); Mud (Corn Exchange); ing a sold-out, three-month off-Broadway run at

Ros Kavanagh raun; and The Wood of the Whispering. Studs (Passion Machine); Bedbound (Dublin the Atlantic Theater in New York. Druid productions have won over 50 awards Theatre Festival); Cruel and Tender; A Dublin On January 27, 2011, this production began in Ireland and internationally including four Carol; and We Ourselves. His film and televi- The Cripple of Inishmaan one of the longest tours by an Irish theater com- Tony Awards for The Beauty Queen of Leenane. sion credits include Running to Standstill, Speed by Martin McDonagh pany in decades, with a major, five-month coast- Dating, Studs, Spin the Bottle, Ocras, Martin, to-coast tour of the United States and Ireland, Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Tubberware, Gangs of New York, When the Sky Time and place: 1934. The island of Inishmaan including U.S. stops in Ann Arbor, Berkeley, Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is Falls, Angela’s Ashes, The Boxer, Braveheart, off the west coast of Ireland. Boston, Charleston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New the award-winning Off-Broadway theater com- Far Away, The Commitments, , The Haven, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia and pany dedicated to producing great plays simply Clinic, Single Handed, , The Ambassador, About Man of Aran: Man of Aran was a docu- Irish stops in Roscommon, Dublin and Galway. and truthfully utilizing an artistic ensemble. Ballykissangel, JJ Biker and Sharpes. mentary feature film directed by the American Fittingly, the final performance of this ex- Since its inception, Atlantic has produced over filmmaker Robert Flaherty in 1934. It depicted tensive tour will see Druid return to the island of 125 productions including the Tony Award- Nancy E. Carroll (Mammy O’Dougal) makes the supposed “daily life” of characters living on Inis Meáin itself (titled Inishmaan in the play), winning play The Beauty Queen of Leenane (with her Druid debut in The Cripple of Inishmaan. the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland. where the play will be performed for the first Druid and Royal Court), the world premieres of Her other theater credits include Present Many situations were fabricated, such as one time ever. And so on June 26, 2011, the islanders Academy Award-winner Ethan Coen’s comedies Laughter (Broadway); Bailegangaire (Súgán in which fishermen are almost lost at sea on a on Inis Meáin will gather in the local communi- Almost an Evening and Offices, ’s Theatre Company); Brendan, The Rose Tattoo, shark hunt. ty hall to watch actors playing Inis Meáin people Romance and his adaptation of The Voysey , Prelude to a Kiss (Huntington who during the course of the play will watch a Inheritance, the musical Spring Awakening, and Theatre Company); Breath of Life, Doubt, There will be one 15-minute intermission. film about Inis Meáin people. Confused? You double-bills of ’s Celebration, The Happy Days, My Old Lady (Gloucester Stage); won’t be after the show! Room, The Collection and A Kind of Alaska. The Clean House, Frozen, Sweeney Todd, Kindertransport (New Repertory Theatre); The J. David Brimmer, Fight Master, SAFD (Fight Savannah Disputation, Company, A Man of No Director), worked on The Cripple of Inishmaan Importance (Speakeasy Stage); Trad (Tír Na); for Druid in New York. His other theater cred- Year of Magical Thinking (Lyric Stage); Auntie & its include That Face, Speed-the-Plow, Spring Me (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Homebody/

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Kabul (Boston Theatre Works);Humble Boy, a Dancer, Father Ted and The Sculptress. His Garry Hynes (Director) founded Druid in 1975 Tassie (Galway; Irish and U.K. tours), The Gigli and Winter’s Tale (Publick Theatre). frequent broadcasts on BBC radio include the and has worked as its Artistic Director from Concert (Galway Arts Festival; Irish tour), The William Trevor novels Love and Summer and 1975 to 1991, and from 1995 to today. From Cripple of Inishmaan (Galway; Irish and U.K. Ingrid Craigie (Kate) has performed with The Story of Lucy Gault for Book at Bedtime. 1991 to 1994, was Ar­tistic Director of the tours; New York), Long Day’s Journey into Night Druid in Lover’s Meeting and The Donahue Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Garry has also worked (Galway; Dublin Theatre Festival), DruidSynge Sisters. Her other theater credits include The Davy Cunningham (Lighting Design) has with the Abbey and Gate theaters (Ireland) and (Galway, Dublin, Edinburgh International Plough and the Stars, The Man Who Came worked extensively in theater and opera and internationally with the Royal Shakespeare Festival and Inis Meáin; Minneapolis and to Dinner, Aristocrats, Measure for Measure, has lit over 200 productions worldwide. His Company and the Royal Court (United Lincoln Center Festival, New York 2006), Sive The Glass Menagerie(Abbey Theatre); Hedda lighting has been seen in every major European Kingdom), with Atlantic Theater, City Center and The Well of the Saints. Mr. Leonard has writ- Gabler (Abbey Theatre; Playhouse); Wonderful opera company from Dublin to St. Petersburg, Encores!, Second Stage, Signature Theatre and ten an acclaimed guide to theater sound, and he Tennessee (Abbey Theatre; Broadway); Love in the Turkey to Australia and throughout the United Manhattan Theatre Club in New York; and with is the recipient of Drama Desk and LDI Sound Title (Abbey Theatre; San Jose), A Life (Abbey States. His work for Druid includes The Silver the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Her Designer of the Year awards and Honorary Theatre; Old Vic); Celebration, Arcadia, The Tassie (Galway; Irish and U.K. tours), The Gigli awards include the Joe A. Callaway Award (New Fellowships from the Guildhall School of Music Deep Blue Sea, The Collection, The Importance Concert (Galway Arts Festival and Irish tour), York) for Outstanding Directing for The Cripple and Drama and the Hong Kong Academy of of Being Earnest, The Recruiting Officer (Gate, The Cripple of Inishmaan(Galway; Irish and of Inishmaan (2009); Honorary Doctor­ates from Performing Arts. Dublin); Faith Healer (Gate, Dublin; Sydney U.K. tours, New York), Long Day’s Journey into the University of Dublin (2004), the National and Edinburgh festivals); Play (Gate, Dublin; Night (Galway and Dublin Theatre Festival), University of Ireland (1998) and the National David H. Lurie (Stage Manager) makes his Barbican); The Weir (Centaur, Montreal); Crave DruidSynge (Galway, Dublin, Edinburgh Council for Education Awards (1988); and a Druid debut with The Cripple of Inishmaan. (Royal Court, Edinburgh, Berlin, Copenhagen, International Festival and Inis Meáin; Tony Award for Direction for The Beauty Queen His other theater credits include Speed-the- Bonn); The Wexford Trilogy (Bush, London); The Minneapolis and Lincoln Center Festival 2006), of Leenane (1998). She is a recipient of many Plow (Barrymore); Losing Louie (Biltmore); The Colleen Bawn (Royal Exchange Manchester); Sive and The Well of the Saints. other theater awards, including / Understudy, The Glass Menagerie(Roundabout); The Misanthrope (National Theatre); Splendour, ESB Irish Theatre Award for Best Director and Coraline (MCC); Equivocation, From Up Here, Boston Marriage and Copenhagen (Project Arts Clare Dunne (Slippy Helen) trained at the a Special Tribute Award for her con­tribution to Beauty of the Father, A Picasso (Manhattan Centre). Her film and television credits in- Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Irish theater (2005). Theatre Club); The Collection, A Kind of clude The Dead, Da, The Railway Station Man, Her work for Druid includes The Silver Tassie Alaska, The Voysey Inheritance (Atlantic); Widows’ Peak, Circle of Friends, Benedict Arnold, (Irish and U.K. tours, 2010), From Galway to Laurence Kinlan (Bartley) has performed in and Tryst (Promenade). Mr. Lurie has also Sensation, The Citadel, When Harvey Met Bob, Broadway and Back Again and The Playboy of the The Cripple of Inishmaan(2008/09 Galway, worked with regional theaters, including The Clinic, Ballykissangel, The Wexford Trilogy Western World (United Kingdom and Galway, Irish and U.K. tours, New York) for Druid. Huntington Theater Company (seven sea- and The Ballroom of Romance. 2009). Her other theater credits include Crunch His other theater credits include Christ Deliver sons), Williamstown Theater Festival (eight (Latitude Festival, 2009), The Three Sisters Us!, , On Such as We, seasons), Signature Theater (Virginia), Dallas Dermot Crowley (JohnnyPateenMike) makes (Lyric Hammersmith & Filter), A Midsummer The Playboy of the Western World (Roddy Doyle Theater Center, Hartford Stage and the Acting his Druid debut in The Cripple of Inishmaan. Night’s Dream (Lyric Hammersmith & Filter at and Bisi Adigun adaptation), A Month in the Company. He is a graduate of Boston University. His other theater credits include House of Games Latitiude, 2010) and Living with Missing (Smock Country (Abbey Theatre), Saved (Peacock), (Almeida); Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Haymarket); Alley, Dublin). Between Foxrock and a Hard Place (Landmark Sarah Lynch (Company Stage Director, Assistant Calico (Duke of York’s); The Weir (Duke of Productions) and Poor Beast in the Rain (Gate, Stage Manager) has worked since 1999 as a York’s; Gate, Dublin; Broadway); Translations Maureen Hughes (Casting Director, Ireland) is Dublin). His film and television credits include stage manager with Druid and has toured ex- (Broadway); Juno ( Center); Casting Director for Druid. She has worked with The Guard, My Boy Jack, Small Engine Repair, tensively with the company both at and Dealer’s Choice (Manhattan Theatre Club); Stuff the company since 1984. From 1991 to 1994 she Johnny Was, Breakfast on Pluto, Boy Eats Girl, abroad. During this time, she has also played Happens, Scenes from the Big Picture, Amadeus, held the post of Casting Director at the Abbey The Halo Effect, Intermission, Veronica Guerin, the part of the “old woman” in Druid’s produc- The Double Dealer, Richard III, The Woman Theatre, Dublin. She also works in film and TV , Last Days in Dublin, On the Nose, tion of Sharon’s Grave. As a stage manager, her (National Theatre); The Hostage (RSC); and in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Recent Everlasting Piece, Saltwater, Country, Angela’s numerous productions for Druid include The A Whistle in the Dark (Abbey Theatre; Royal credits include the low-budget film Once, which Ashes, On Home Ground, The Bill, Soft Sand Blue Silver Tassie, The Gigli Concert, The Walworth Court). His film and television credits include won an Oscar for Best Song in 2008, and Six Sea and Love/Hate. Farce, The New Electric Ballroom, The Cripple Holy Water, Babel, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Shooter by Martin McDonagh, which won an of Inishmaan and DruidSynge, and she directed The Son of the Pink Panther, Octopussy, Wilt, The Oscar for Best Short Film in 2007. She recently John Leonard (Sound Design) started work in Lynndie’s Gotta Gun, a one-act play by Enda Return of the Jedi, Giro City, Luther, Margaret, worked on the forthcoming feature by Paolo theater sound 35 years ago, during which time Walsh. Ms. Lynch is also an accomplished singer- Foyle’s War, Midsomer Murders, Bleak House, Sorrentino, This Must Be the Place, starring Sean he has provided soundtracks for theaters all over songwriter, and in 2010 released her debut al- Spooks, Rebel Heart, Jonathan Creek, Falling for Penn and Frances McDormand. the world. His work for Druid includes The Silver bum, Letter to Friends.

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The Cripple of Inishmaan is Martin McDonagh Tadhg Murphy (Billy Claven)’s work for the Wind, Law & Order: Los Angeles, 24, West Founded in 1913, Actors’ Equity Association (Writer)’s fourth play with Druid. His oth- Druid includes Penelope (New York, Ireland, Wing, Numbers and Cold Case. (AEA) represents more than 49,000 actors and er plays include A Behanding in Spokane Edinburgh, Finland), The Walworth Farce stage managers in the United States. AEA’s mis- (Schoenfeld Theater, Broadway, 2010); The (2009–2010 world tour (Ireland, United Laura Stanczyk (Casting Director, United States) sion is to promote the art of live theater as an Pillowman (National Theatre, London, 2003; Kingdom, Canada, United States, Australia, has cast The Cripple of Inishmaan and Long Day’s essential component of our society. AEA nego- Booth Theatre, Broadway, 2005); The Lieutenant New Zealand), National Theatre, London, New Journey into Night for Druid. Her other the- tiates wages and working conditions, providing of Inishmore (Royal Shakespeare Company, York (2008), Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2007)) ater credits include The Skylark, There Are No a wide range of benefits, including health and 2001; Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, 2006); The and Empress of India (Galway and Dublin Soulmates, Zeros and Ones, Lombardi, Ragtime, pension plans, for its members. AEA and (Druid/Royal Court Theatre co- Theatre Festival). His other theater credits in- Impressionism, The Seafarer, Radio Golf, Coram League of Resident Theatres have maintained a production, 1997; Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, clude MedEia (Corcodorca); Three Sisters, Julius Boy, Translations, Damn Yankees (Encores! collaborative and mutually beneficial relation- 1999); A Skull in Connemara (Druid/Royal Cæsar, The Importance of Being Ernest (Abbey Summer Stars); Dirty Dancing, The Glorious ship through collective bargaining since 1966. Court Theatre co-production, 1997); The Cripple Theatre);Dublin by Lamplight (Corn Exchange); Ones, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Sweet of Inishmaan (National Theatre, London, 1997); The Taming of the Shrew (Rough Magic); The Charity, Wonderful Town, Harps and Angels David Eden Productions, Ltd. (DEP), has been The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Druid/Royal Real Thing (Gúna Nua); Macbeth, Romeo and (Center Theatre Group); Gruesome Playground one of the leading American organizations devot- Court Theatre co-production, 1996; Walter Juliet (Second Age); and A Christmas Carol Injuries (Alley); Master Class, The Lisbon ed to producing international work in the United Kerr Theatre, Broadway, 1998). His film cred- (Gate, Dublin). Mr. Murphy’s film and televi- Traviata, Golden Age (Kennedy Center); Me States for over 20 years. Most recently, DEP has its include , Six Shooter (short), Seven sion credits include Pride and Joy, Jelly Baby, Boy Myself & I, Fetch Clay Make Man (McCarter); The produced North American tours of Druid’s The Psychopaths and Three Billboards Outside of Eats Girl, Alexander, Good Man Danny, Hide and Shawshank Redemption (Dublin, West End); and Walworth Farce and DruidSynge, presenting Ebbing, Missouri. Seek, Love is the Drug, No Tears and The Clinic. The Importance of Being Ernest (Rough Magic). their productions of The Shadow of the Glen and Her film and television credits include Book of The Playboy of the Western World. Other recent Dearbhla Molloy (Eileen) has worked with Francis O’Connor (Designer) is a regular col- Kings and Once Upon a Mattress. Ms. Stanczyk tours include the Gate Theatre Dublin’s Waiting Druid in The Cripple of Inishmaan (2008–2009 laborator with Garry Hynes and Druid. His has been nominated for four Artios Awards for for Godot; Declan Donnellan’s Twelfth Night; Irish and U.K. tours; New York). Her other designs for plays, musicals and opera have been Excellence in Casting. Propeller’s The Winter’s Tale; Piccolo Teatro di theater credits include , seen in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Milano’s Arlecchino; the Russian Patriarchate Aristocrats, The Misanthrope, Translations, Ivanov, throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Colin Towns (Composer) has written music Choir of Moscow; Batsheva Dance Company: Living Quarters, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Life His Druid productions include The Silver Tassie, for The Cripple of Inishmaan and Long Day’s and the State Ballet of Georgia with the legend- (Abbey Theatre); Juno and the Paycock, Dancing The Gigli Concert, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Journey into Night for Druid. His other the- ary Bolshoi prima ballerina Nina Ananiashvili. at Lughnasa, A Touch of the Poet (Broadway); Long Day’s Journey into Night, Leaves, Empress ater credits include The Prisoner of Second In 2004, David Eden curated Lincoln Center In Celebration, Arcadia, Hamlet, As You Like of India, DruidSynge, The Playboy of the Western Avenue (London); Rain Man (London); Hamlet Festival’s Ashton Celebration, a two-week cen- It, Much Ado about Nothing (West End); The World, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Year (Chicago Shakespeare Theater);Blackthorn , tennial retrospective at the Metropolitan Opera Cripple of Inishmaan, Hinterland, On the Ledge of the Hiker; The Lonesome West, The Leenane Macbeth, , The Crucible, One House celebrating master choreographer Sir (National Theatre); The Hostage, Shadow of a Trilog y, Sive, My Brilliant Divorce, The Tinker’s Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest and others (Theatr Frederick Ashton. Other notable projects in- Gunman (RSC); Doubt (Tricycle); Macbeth Wed­ding and Sharon’s Grave. His awards include Clywd); The Suite (Birmingham Royal clude U.S. tours of the Bolshoi Ballet; festival (Bristol Old Vic); Phædre, Uncle Vanya, The two Irish Times Best Design Awards, Boston Ballet); The Little Foxes (Donmar); Royal Hunt programs for the Kennedy Center, including Philanthropist, Come on Over (Gate, Dublin); Critics Circle, Dora Mavor Moore Award and, of the Sun (Tokyo); Henry V (RSC). His film Arts of the United Kingdom (2001), Island: Arts The Plough and the Stars (Gaiety). Ms. Molloy most recently, a nomination for the Faust Prize and television credits include Maybe Baby, from Ireland (2000) and Art of the State: Israel at has won two Drama Desk Awards, a Theatre in Germany. Albert Schweitzer, Essex Boys, Space Truckers, Full 50 (1998); and premiere presentations of inter- World Special Award, a London Critics Award, Circle, The Puppet Masters, Vampire’s Kiss, Our national theater and dance projects at the BAM two Irish Theatre Awards and a U.S. Audie Paul Vincent O’Connor (Doctor McSharry) Friends in the North, Doc Martin, Goodbye Mr. Next Wave and Lincoln Center festivals. Award. She has been nominated for Tony, makes his Druid debut with The Cripple of Chips, The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends and Royal Television Society, IFTA and Grammy Inishmaan. His theater credits include August: Angelina Ballerina. Mr. Towns works with many awards. Her film and television credits include Osage County (Sydney, Australia; U.S. tour; European jazz big bands. Most recently, he ar- The Damned United, Tara Road, Blackwater National Theatre), The Seafarer (Geffen ranged, recorded, toured and released a program Lightship, New Tricks, Midsomer Murders, Playhouse) and 16 years as a member of the of John Lennon’s music entitled John Lennon: In Waking the Dead, Foyle’s War, Touch of Frost, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. His extensive film My Own Write. This year he launches his new Home for Christmas, GBH and 55 Degrees North. and television credits include Seabiscuit, Inherit band, Blue Touch Paper.

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Druid Patron Mary McAleese, Éarlamh Máire Mhic Ghiolla Íosa, Uachtarán na hÉireann

Board Séamus O’Grady, Chairman Tarlach de Blácam Breda Ryan Eugene O’Kelly Donal Shiels Donncha O’Connell

Founders Garry Hynes (1945–2010) Marie Mullen

For Druid Artistic Director Garry Hynes Finance Director Bernie Harrigan General Manager Tim Smith Literary Manager Thomas Conway Marketing & Development Manager Sinead McPhillips Administrator Ruth Gordon Financial Administrator Lisa Nolan

Druid wishes to express its continuing gratitude to Thomas McDonogh & Company Ltd for their support of the company and gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Galway City Council and Galway County Council.

For David Eden Productions, Ltd. Producer David Eden General Manager Erica Charpentier Production Manager Trevor Long Public Relations Scott Watson Visa Coordinator Elise-Ann Konstantin Travel Agent Lori Harrison, Atlas Travel

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