JOY NESBITT
Director | Writer | Musician
Written and Directed by Joy Nesbitt Performed at the New Theatre for Dublin Fringe Festival 2024 Nominated for 4 Dublin Fringe Awards
Written by Ultan Pringle Directed by Joy Nesbitt Project Arts Centre, Dublin: 26 June – 6 July, 2024 An Grianán, Letterkenny, Donegal: 11 – 13 July, 2024
A short film directed by Joy Nesbitt
Written and Directed by Joy Nesbitt Performed at the New Theatre for Dublin Fringe Festival 2024 Nominated for 4 Dublin Fringe Awards
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"The Knife" Short film will be shown at DIFF, presented by Virgin Media Discovers
Virgin Media and Keeper Pictures
Virgin Media Discovers, in partnership with Screen Ireland, is a competition that helps new and established filmmakers and content creators get their stories heard.
The Knife will be shown at the Dublin International Film Festival in February.
A panel of industry judges have selected four winners, who have won between €35,000 and €50,000 to fund the production of their short film or documentary, which will be featured at Dublin International Film Festival and Virgin Media iPlayer.
Knife (Comedy)
Writer: Joy Nesbitt, Producer: Grace Odumosu
Ife, a young black woman goes for her first pregnancy scan, only to discover that her child is brandishing a knife inside her womb.
24 Hour Plays Dublin
The Abbey Theatre
Date: Sunday 26th January 2025
On the Abbey Stage
Time: 7.30pm
Tickets: €35 – €70
An unmissable event, for one night only! In January, The 24 Hour Plays: Dublin is back at the Abbey Theatre for its 12th annual fundraising event in aid of Dublin Youth Theatre.
On the weekend of Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th January, and all within 24 hours, six short plays will be written, rehearsed and performed by the best of Irish writing and directing talent and over 30 of Ireland’s most recognised and beloved stars of stage and screen. A team of over 35 theatre technicians, including producers from The 24 Hour Plays® in New York, will facilitate the work.
All proceeds from this special gala fundraising event go directly to Dublin Youth Theatre to support the delivery of their artistic programme. Since the first benefit presentation in 2012, over €150,000 has been raised for DYT through ticket sales and donations. Dublin Youth Theatre is deeply grateful to everyone who has attended The 24 Hour Plays: Dublin over the years, and to over 400 participants who have volunteered their time and talent to this great cause!
The 24 Hour Plays: Dublin is presented under a license and with the participation of The 24 Hour Plays® in New York.
Tenderfoot
The Civic Theatre
Thu January 23rd - Fri 24th // 12pm
Sat January 25th // 2pm & 7pm Main Space
Duration: 130 mins. One interval
Tickets: €12 & €6 concession
TENDERFOOT, The Civic Theatre’s apprentice theatre programme for transition year students, supports the development of new theatrical voices. The Tenderfoot Showcase presents a programme of plays by 16 year old playwrights, plays reflecting their lives, their world, plays exploring their fears, their worries, their joys. Performed and designed by a 70 strong ensemble of young people under the guidance of working theatre professionals.
Tenderfoot plays are directed by professional directors – our directors this year are Davey Kelleher, Esosa Ighodaro, Dominic O’Brien and Joy Nesbitt.
Our design teams – Set & Costume, Lighting, Music Composition & Sound Design and Film For Theatre & Production, all work under the guidance of professional mentors, designers, composers, filmmakers and production managers.
Our core director is Gavin Kostick and Tenderfoot’s Programme Director is Veronica Coburn.
This year’s programme features:
‘Anyone’s House’ by Anna McCaffrey Lucan Community College
‘Is There Heaven On This Earth’ by Jayla King Collinstown Park Community College ‘Debts Of The Soul’ by John Nechiti Lucan Community College
‘Summer of Change' by Holly O’Reilly’ - Blessington Community College
PRESS
"At this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival plenty of ire was aimed at the performing arts’ current discourse on inclusion. Most driven was Joy Nesbitt’s dark comedy Julius Caesar Variety Show, about a nightmarish actors’ audition. Nesbitt’s points felt new and insightful, as a black actor (a cool-headed Loré Adewusi) was seen dealing with a white bullying director (a compellingly snide Ultan Pringle) who insisted on the one hand that colour-blind casting doesn’t work, because audiences can’t unsee race, and on the other hand that not going along with exploitative expectations of blackness is actually being artistically conservative. How depressingly elaborate these schemes are."
— THE IRISH TIMES,
"The best theatre of 2024: Blessed are the risk-takers"