BIOGRAPHIES

Artistic Director/Actor AIDEN CONDRON

Aiden Condron has been a theatre professional for over sixteen years working in many areas of the theatre, as actor, director and pedagogue.
Aiden trained with Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) and at The Conservatory of Music and Drama (Dublin) where he was two-time recipient of The Brendan Smith Award for achievements in acting.

As an actor Aiden has worked extensively in Ireland and abroad. He has received much critical acclaim for performances such as Clov in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame performed in Los Angeles, Angelo in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, and Sordido in Women Beware Women by the world-renowned Howard Barker; a performance that received special commendation from the writer. In 2000 Aiden was nominated Best Supporting Actor at the Irish Times/E.S.B. Theatre Awards for his portrayal of Marc Antony in Julius Caesar. Other recent theatre credits include Mansfield Park for Rattlebag Theatre, Of Mice and Men at The New Theatre directed by Obie Award winning director Tim Mc Donnell and King Lear directed by Alan Stanford for Second Age Theatre Company, a U.K. and nationwide tour of the hugely successful Alone It Stands, written and directed by Irish Times/E.S.B. Theatre Award winner John Breen. Film and television credits include Fair City (Civil Action Special), The Big Bow and On Home Ground (R.T.E.), Saving Private Ryan (Dreamworks), Writer’s Fantasy (Ton Productions) and Dead of Night (Grove Films).

Aiden is also an experienced teacher and facilitator in many fields of the performing arts. He has worked in areas as diverse as children’s drama, drama for people with special needs including learning disabilities. He has also trained professional actors. He has tutored in most drama schools in Dublin including The Gaiety School of Acting, Ringsend Technical Institute (Theatre Studies) and Liberties College (Bull Alley). In 1998 Aiden taught as part of EFL via Performance: a program he designed and set up for The World Traveler’s Organization in Milan, Italy. He has also been invited to conduct workshops and training with actors and dancers for various institutions in Ireland and Europe including Daghdha Dance (Ireland) and Teatre Breton Caffe (Poland)

As a stage director Aiden has created many successful productions including works by Shakespeare, Beckett, Lorca and Pirandello.

At the beginning of this new millennium Aiden began to focus his energies toward actively investigating and re-evaluating the nature and function of performance and the role and potentiality of the actor. In January 2002 he founded nervousystem of which he is now Artistic Director.

The remit of nervousystem is the systematic exploration and elaboration of an authentic objective praxis, language and aesthetic for performance appropriate to the needs of our time.

Within nervousystem Aiden has evolved and elaborated a detailed and comprehensive actor-training praxis. For the company he has directed Fire Face: an adaptation of The Cuchullain Plays by Yeats. As part of a more forthright exploration into an alternative theatre language, he directed the evolving performance structures: AVERSION I, AVERSION II (The I-Eye) and PARK ACTION, all original works composed by the company. Most recently he directed The Myth and the Flesh a solo opus composed and performed by Marián Araújo. Aiden is currently engaged in preliminary work on nervousystem’s next project within the research domain Actor as Writer, an ensemble project which will incorporate ancient texts and songs.

 

Co-founder/Actor MARIÁN ARAÚJO.

Originally from Spain, Marián began her acting career at the age of fifteen working for the theatre company La Ventanita. Her professional debut with the group was in 1993 with the play Talk To Me Like The Rain by Tennesse Williams.  In 1997 she graduated from The Drama School of Valladolid after which she toured Spain with Life is a Dream by Calderón de la Barca. She also worked in Italy performing in the Elias Canetti play Vite a Scadenza directed by the Artistic Director of The Piccolo Theatre, Milan; Franco Brambilla. This production was designed by the acclaimed scenographer, Josev Sboboda. In 1998 she moved to Ireland where she took a three- year performance course at The Liberties College (Dublin.) When she finished Marián started to work for various Irish theatre companies including: Randolf SD/ the company with their production Eeugh!topia for the 2003 Dublin Fringe Festival and the 2004 Irish premiere of The Drowned World by Gary Owen in which she played Tara. She also performed in The Balcony by Jean Genet (Andrews Lane) playing Chantal and ‘The Horse Girl’ and played the title role in AistearTheatre Company’s production of Angelene by Pearse Lehane (The Crypt Arts Centre).

Since 2002 her work has been concentrated within nervousystem, where she has been exploring the language of theatre through the company's deep research on actor's training and composition. Within the company Marián has developed a detailed and comprehensive actor-training program that it is been shared with actors from Ireland and abroad. This daily training has been of key importance to her evolving working practice and performative structures as well as on her own progression as an actor. With nervousystem Marián has performed in Fire Face, The Cuchulain Plays by W.B. Yeats; and has created and performed individual scores for Aversion, an original work composed by the company; Aversion the Eye I, a reworking on Aversion and Park Action, the culmination of a year long project on Theatre Haiku. Currently Marian is continuing her exploration into the actor’s craft and the nature of performance through the creation of a solo piece called The Myth and The Flesh. Through her practice within the domain of actor as a writer, she intends to keep questioning and challenging what actors do in order to keep the art of performance alive.

In November 2005 Marián was invited to participate in a month long Worksession led by The Workcenter of Jerry Grotowski and Thomas Richards in Moscow as part of their project Tracing Roads Across. In May 2006 she went to Italy to work again with Gey Pin Ang, one of the members of the ensemble, establishing a working relationship with her and other european theatre practitioners.

Her credits in film include the Irish feature films Dead Meat where she played the lead character (Horrorthon Productions); Three Crosses playing the female lead (October 11 productions) and Thomas Cosgrove’s Dead of Night. She also played in the Mexican film In love. In TV Marián has appeared in the RTE’s series Proof, Fair City and The Clinic (Allegro productions for RTE)

Actor - JOSEPH MOYLAN

Joseph is a Galway born actor who studied in Dublin, initially at the Inchicore V.E.C. and then with Tim McDonald's Stanislavsky studio.

Recent roles include:   Stuff in “Sweet Bird of Youth” (directed by Tim McDonald);  Patrick in “Spellbound Faoi Geasa” (Ciaran Taylor);  Cletis in “Lone Star” (Patrick J. Burns) and various roles in Puca’s Coraline by Neil Gaiman (Sue Mythen).  T.V and film roles include Charlie in “The Doorway” (Michael Druxman) and Dan Hegarty in R.T.E.’s “Fair City”.

Joseph is excited to continue his research into and exploration of the actors craft in the environment provided by nervousystem and sees this opportunity as a natural and logical progression in his work.