Adjunct Professors in the School of Drama, Film and Music

Anne Bogart

Anne Bogart is an American theatre director and a professor at Columbia University where she heads the Graduate Directing Program. A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Bogart has won two Best Director Obie awards, one for No Plays No Poetry But Philosophical Reflections Practical Instructions Provocative Opinions and Pointers From a Noted Critic and Playwright (1988) and the other for The Baltimore Waltz (1990). In 1984 she was also honored with the Bessie Award for Choreographer/Creator for her work with South Pacific. After working together with Mary Overlie at NYU in 1979, Bogart developed a version of an improvisational technique called Viewpoints, based on Mary's discovery of The Six Viewpoints of dance.

Michael Bogdanov

Michael Bogdanov, Adjunct Professor of Drama in the Department of Drama, was trained at the BBC in the 1960s and produced, wrote and directed for television in the UK and Ireland. He has directed eight productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including The Taming of the Shrew for which he received a Director of the Year award in 1979. He was associate director of the Royal National Theatre where he directed about 15 productions. In 1986, Bogdanov and actor Michael Pennington together founded the English Shakespeare Company. In 1990 he was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director. His essays on Shakespeare were published in a critically acclaimed book: Shakespeare: The Director's Cut in 2003, followed by a second volume focusing on the histories in 2005. In 2003, he was involved in setting up the Wales Theatre Company, based in Swansea and Cardiff.

Marina Carr

Marina Carr is a leading Irish playwright with her plays being translated and performed throughout the world. Her best known works include By the Bog of Cats…, Portia Coughlan, The Mai, and Woman and Scarecrow.

Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw is a leading Irish actor who is regarded as one of the finest classical actresses of her generation. She has worked closely with the director Deborah Warner in such notable productions as Hedda Gabler, Medea, Happy Days, as well as playing the title role in Richard II. She is also well known for her role as Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter films.

Antony Tatlow

Antony Tatlow, Honorary Professor in the Department of Drama, was Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Dublin (1996-2005), Founding Head of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong (1987-1996), President of the International Brecht Society (1982-1990), and has been Consultant to the Central Academy of Drama, Beijing from 1986. He is the author of Shakespeare, Brecht and the Intercultural Sign (2001), Brechts Ost Asien: ein Parallog (1998), Benwen Renleixue [Textual Anthropology: A Practice of Reading] (1996), Repression and Figuration - From Totem to Utopia (1990), The Mask of Evil: Brecht's Response to the Poetry, Theatre, and Thought of China and Japan (1977), and Brechts Chinesische Gedichte (1973).

Adjunct Lecturers

Bernard Griffin

Bernard Griffin is a Lighting Designer with 30 years experience and lectures in stage lighting design in Trinity. A graduate of Trinity, he has a Masters Degree in Psychology from University of California, specializing in visual perception. He has also completed four years of study of Advanced Lighting Design at UCSB. A freelance designer, Bernard has designed the lighting for over 3000 shows, including Theatre, Product Launches, Corporate Events, Fashion Shows, Architectural Lighting. He has worked extensively in UK, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, France, Monaco, Greece, Czech Republic, Jamaica, Mauritius, Dubai and Kuwait.

Michael West

Michael West began his illustrious playwriting career as a Drama student at Trinity.  His first play, which emerged from these classes, A Play on 2 Chairs, was first performed in Players Theatre at Trinity in April 1989 where the two characters, He and She, were played by Dominic West and Amanda Hogan. In the intervening years Michael has written several plays including Dublin by Lamplight, Foley and Everday and his latest play, Freefall, was voted the Irish Times Theatre Awards Best New Play 2009. Michael has also translated or adapted many texts including The Marriage of Figaro for the Abbey and Tartuffe for the Gate. He has written the libretto for Ahakista, an opera by Jürgen Simpson, which will premiere in January 2012 in Canada; and is currently developing a new show for The Corn Exchange which will open in Dublin in 2011.

Chisato Yoshimi

Chisato Yoshimi began an association with the Abbey Theatre as a stage designer in 1983, where she has worked on over 27 shows. In 1988, she became a freelance designer and has designed sets and costumes extensively for other stages and companies, as well as for television and film. Ms. Yoshimi, who studied at the Theatre Design Course at Riverside Studios (which was to become the Motley Theatre Design Course), has lectured in stage design at Trinity since 1990. Work by her and her students was exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial in 2007.

School of Drama, Film & Music Staff

Department of Drama

Department of Film Studies

Artists in Residence

Selina Cartmell, Artist in Residence

Selina Cartmell is a leading theatre director in Ireland. She is the Artistic Director of Siren Productions, for whom she has directed Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, Fando and Lis and Medea. She has directed Marina Carr's The Cordelia Dream at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Only an Apple, Big Love, and Woman and Scarecrow for the Abbey Theatre. She was chosen as a Protégé in the third cycle of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, to work with Julie Taymor.

Lenny Abrahamson, Film-maker in Residence

Lenny Abrahamson is considered one of the leading young directors of Irish cinema.A graduate of physics and philosophy at TCD, after college he directed the award-winning short film 3 Joes and was director of Adam and Paul (2004), Garage (2007) and the RTE TV series Prosperity (2007).

Michael Keegan Dolan, Theatre-maker in Residence

As the Artistic Director of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, Michael Keegan-Dolan is one of the most celebrated theatre artists in Ireland today. Since 1997 he has choreographed nine works for the company including the internationally acclaimed Midlands Trilogy (Giselle (2003), The Bull (2005), James Son of James (2007)), and most recently The Rite of Spring (2009) in collaboration with the English National Opera. Giselle, The Bull and The Rite of Spring were all nominated for Olivier Awards and in 2008 Keegan-Dolan won the UK Critic's Circle Award for Best Modern Choreography (The Bull). Fabulous Beast have been Artistic Associates of the Barbican in London since 2007.