Pan Pan Platform at Dublin Fringe Festival 2022
We are delighted to be working in partnership with Pan Pan on the fourth edition of the Pan Pan Platform at Dublin Fringe Festival. This initiative connects experienced makers and producers with exciting early career artists.
The artists and shows that make up the 2022’s Pan Pan Platform are Colm Higgin’s The Birdwatcher's Trip to Alpha Centauri and Bradán’s Cooking the Vegan Salmon of Knowledge. These shows will each have their world premiere this September at Dublin Fringe Festival 2022. Both projects will receive artistic mentorship from Gavin Quinn and Aedín Cosgrove and producing support from producer Hillary Dziminski and associate producer Lisa Nally.
“Developing new performance ideas is at the centre of Pan Pan’s raison d’être which is born from a desire to be individual and provide innovation in the development of theatre art. We fully support the emergence of new work from young and innovative artists and are delighted to support the two shows through the Pan Pan Platform at Dublin Fringe.” – Pan Pan
“I am delighted to now be working with Lisa Nally, a very exciting up-and-coming producer, to help bring these two shows to life. Colm and James have both created fascinating and challenging concepts that push the boundaries of theatricality and raise vital questions about the state of the world we live in. This year’s group of creatives are ones to watch, and it’s a real pleasure to collaborate with them.”
- Hillary Dziminski, Producer
“It’s brilliant to see leading artists like Pan Pan share their skills and expertise with the next generation of experimental performance makers. In supporting Bradán and Colm Higgins they are championing bold, contemporary new work, and I look forward to seeing the impact of Pan Pan’s support in September when both shows have their world premiere at Dublin Fringe Festival 2022.”
– Ruth McGowan, Artistic Director & CEO, Dublin Fringe Festival
Since its inception, Pan Pan has constantly examined and challenged the nature of its work and has resisted settling into well-tried formulas. Developing new performance ideas is at the centre of the company’s mission. All the works created are original, either through the writing (original plays) or through the totally unique expression of established writings. Pan Pan tries to approach theatre as an open form of expression and has developed an individual aesthetic that has grown from making performances in a host of different situations and conditions. Pan Pan is committed to presenting performances nationally and internationally and developing links for co-productions and collaborations. The company has toured in Ireland, UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and China.
In 2019 Pan Pan and Dublin Fringe Festival decided to formalise their partnership as the Pan Pan Platform with Hannah Mamalis’s Symphony of Worms and Luke Casserly & Shanna May Breen’s Mould Into Shape. In 2020, Murmuration’s Will I See You There and Matt Bratko & Frank Sweeney’s Initiation were supported through the platform and in 2021 Ian Lynam’s Autistic License and Lark’s I Feel You Apart From Me. Prior to that, Pan Pan was associate producer on four productions in Dublin Fringe Festival 2018, Unwoman Part III by The Rabble and Maeve Stone, My Dad’s Blind by Anna Shiels McNamee, Oneday by Dick Walsh and James Moran and Everything I Do by Zoe Ní Ríordáin.
This initiative is funded by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.