Announcing 2023 FRINGE LAB Resident Artists
We are thrilled to welcome three new Resident Artists to Dublin Fringe in 2023!
Each year we invite a number of artists to move into Fringe HQ, offering artistic and practical support, space for them to continue making great work and a cohort of incredible peers! This year we’ll be joined by Trudie Gorman, Sam Killian and Nick Nikolaou.
Trudie Gorman is a working-class writer whose work explores the personal and political interplay between class, gender, and the body. Trudie has performed her poetry across Ireland and the UK and has published pieces in Poetry Ireland, Poetry NI, Two Metre Review and The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio London. Trudie was selected for Poetry Ireland Versify Series 2019 and was also shortlisted for the Creative Future Writer’s Award 2019. Trudie showcased her work To Love this Body at Poetry Ireland in March 2022. Trudie was awarded a residency at the Centre Cultural Irlandais in Paris in December 2022. The writing of her first collection of poetry is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland through Arts and Disability Ireland and Poetry Ireland.
Sam Killian is a writer, composer, and performer from Dublin. His primary focus is on building ambitious queer musical works for stage and screen, with a focus on empathy, absurd humour, and warmth. His work engages with deep ecology, and the abstraction of human emotions in the digital age. He is a founding member of bluehouse theatre.
Recent work as a writer includes: Pig Brain at Dublin Fringe, a dark one-woman comedy about conspiracy theories, animal rights, and Elon Musk; Infinite Teleskop Loop at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery and Dunamaise Arts Centre, a series of stories about magpies, aquarium owners and bars on the moon.
As a composer, work includes: Spaces & Waves at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery. Developed with Corcadorca Theatre Company, this is a presentation of a long-term musical about climate change, capitalism and whales; 24/7 Bliss with bluehouse theatre at Dublin Fringe, a live dream-pop soundtrack.
As a performer, he appeared in 24/7 Bliss and has performed sketches with Club Valentine Comedy.
Nick Nikolaou is an Irish-based contemporary dance and queer artist. They graduated with First Class Honours from the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance in the University of Limerick. Before their post-graduate studies, Nick danced with the Dublin Youth Dance Company and other companies in Ireland and Greece, and has performed in many countries around Europe. Nick’s current interests stem from past experiences and personal memories of movement from specific spaces. Their research of the past 2 years is around club and queer spaces and their importance on a person's existence and comfort. Nick has shared their research with other dancers and mentors such as Liz Roche, Philip Connaughton, Emma Martin and Tonie Walsh and has arrived at a fully rounded place in their personal work. Their last creation was a solo show that premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival in September 2022 called Anatomy of a Night. Nick’s next step is to remove themself from just the personal perspective of the work and create a universal work with others.