BIOGRAPHIES
Founder Artistic Director/Actor - AIDEN CONDRON
Aiden Condron has been a theatre professional for over twenty years working in many areas of theatre and performance, as actor, director and pedagogue. He 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 The Tudors (Showtime), 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 and Mephisto (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 potential 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 group. Aiden also directed the first phase of The Myth and the Flesh a solo opus composed and performed by Marián Araújo. Most recently he directed nervousystem's current performance Weaving the Cry. He is currently engaged in ongoing work on Holy Fool operating within Nervousystem's research domain Actor as Writer. This is a solo work which he will compose and perform as actor, incorporating a series of texts from various sources along with songs of tradition. Aiden received a one-year Bursary award from the Arts Council for this project. He is also presently engaged in preliminary work on a new project for Nervousystem; Hymn of the Pearl; a narrative poem from the Knostic apocryphal diaspora. As part of his ongoing research, in November 2010, Aiden recently traveled to India to work under theatre master Abani Biswas as part of the Sources Research Project; a two-month intensive training residency at Theatre House in West Bengal.
Aiden Condron has been a theatre professional for over twenty years working in many areas of theatre and performance, as actor, director and pedagogue. He 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 The Tudors (Showtime), 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 and Mephisto (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 potential 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 group. Aiden also directed the first phase of The Myth and the Flesh a solo opus composed and performed by Marián Araújo. Most recently he directed nervousystem's current performance Weaving the Cry. He is currently engaged in ongoing work on Holy Fool operating within Nervousystem's research domain Actor as Writer. This is a solo work which he will compose and perform as actor, incorporating a series of texts from various sources along with songs of tradition. Aiden received a one-year Bursary award from the Arts Council for this project. He is also presently engaged in preliminary work on a new project for Nervousystem; Hymn of the Pearl; a narrative poem from the Knostic apocryphal diaspora. As part of his ongoing research, in November 2010, Aiden recently traveled to India to work under theatre master Abani Biswas as part of the Sources Research Project; a two-month intensive training residency at Theatre House in West Bengal.
Co-founder Associate Director/Actor - MARIÁN ARAÚJO.
Originally from Spain, Marián began her theatre training at the age of fifteen within the theatre company La Ventanita's. Three years later she performed the leading role in Talk To Me Like The Rain by Tennesse Williams. In 1997 she graduated from The Drama School of Valladolid. She toured Spain with Life is a Dream by Calderón de la Barca and performed in the Elias Canetti play Vite a Scadenza directed by former Artistic Director of The Piccolo, Milan; Franco Brambilla. In 1998 she moved to Ireland. In Dublin she trained at Bull Alley Performance School. Marián has performed with numerous Irish theatre companies including: Blank Canvas' 2009 production of Richard II in which she played the Queen and Randolf SD/ the company with their productions Eeugh!topia and The Drowned World both directed by Wayne Jordan.
In 2002 she co-founded Nervousystem. Within the company Marián has developed her own detailed and comprehensive actor-training program and currently she facilitates actors within and outside Ireland. 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 collective; Aversion - The I-Eye (a reworking on Aversion) and Park Action, the culmination of a year long project on Theatre Haiku. During 2006-09 Marián continued her exploration into the actor’s craft and the nature of performance under the mentorship of Singaporean theatre practitioner Gey Pin Ang. Her solo creation The Myth and The Flesh was developed with her collaboration and as part of Marián's personal research within Nervousystem. This performance was included as part of the activities of the UNESCO year of Grotowsky at Kent University, Canterbury, UK. She is currently performing the principal role in Nervousystem's Weaving the Cry.
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 July 2009 she took part in the project Meetings with Remarkable Women at the Grotowsky Institute in Poland. Marián is also currently developing Wandering Birds, a new performance directed by Gey PIn Ang that will travel to Singapore in 2011.
Her credits in film include Irish films Dead Meat, Three Crosses and Dead of Night; Mexican film In love and Spanish film El Vuelo del Tren. In TV Marián has appeared in the RTE series Proof, Fair City and The Clinic.
Originally from Spain, Marián began her theatre training at the age of fifteen within the theatre company La Ventanita's. Three years later she performed the leading role in Talk To Me Like The Rain by Tennesse Williams. In 1997 she graduated from The Drama School of Valladolid. She toured Spain with Life is a Dream by Calderón de la Barca and performed in the Elias Canetti play Vite a Scadenza directed by former Artistic Director of The Piccolo, Milan; Franco Brambilla. In 1998 she moved to Ireland. In Dublin she trained at Bull Alley Performance School. Marián has performed with numerous Irish theatre companies including: Blank Canvas' 2009 production of Richard II in which she played the Queen and Randolf SD/ the company with their productions Eeugh!topia and The Drowned World both directed by Wayne Jordan.
In 2002 she co-founded Nervousystem. Within the company Marián has developed her own detailed and comprehensive actor-training program and currently she facilitates actors within and outside Ireland. 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 collective; Aversion - The I-Eye (a reworking on Aversion) and Park Action, the culmination of a year long project on Theatre Haiku. During 2006-09 Marián continued her exploration into the actor’s craft and the nature of performance under the mentorship of Singaporean theatre practitioner Gey Pin Ang. Her solo creation The Myth and The Flesh was developed with her collaboration and as part of Marián's personal research within Nervousystem. This performance was included as part of the activities of the UNESCO year of Grotowsky at Kent University, Canterbury, UK. She is currently performing the principal role in Nervousystem's Weaving the Cry.
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 July 2009 she took part in the project Meetings with Remarkable Women at the Grotowsky Institute in Poland. Marián is also currently developing Wandering Birds, a new performance directed by Gey PIn Ang that will travel to Singapore in 2011.
Her credits in film include Irish films Dead Meat, Three Crosses and Dead of Night; Mexican film In love and Spanish film El Vuelo del Tren. In TV Marián has appeared in the RTE series Proof, Fair City and The Clinic.
Literary Editor, Writer and Dramaturg
JEFFREY GORMLY
Jeffrey Gormly works in new participatory models, applied science fiction, and social choreography. With an extensive backround in performing arts and theatre he has also produced and coordinated numerous social and cultural events in Ireland and abroad. As well as editing Choreograph.net and continuing to develop the Framemakers and RICE projects for Daghdha Dance Company, he is on commission as writer to the Abbey Theatre Dublin. He is presently in receipt of a two-year artists bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. He is currently working on a number of scripts for stage, and a Flexistential cookbook. As creator of the collective Soul Gun Warriors Jeffrey is also finalizing work on a new audio theatre record.
JEFFREY GORMLY
Jeffrey Gormly works in new participatory models, applied science fiction, and social choreography. With an extensive backround in performing arts and theatre he has also produced and coordinated numerous social and cultural events in Ireland and abroad. As well as editing Choreograph.net and continuing to develop the Framemakers and RICE projects for Daghdha Dance Company, he is on commission as writer to the Abbey Theatre Dublin. He is presently in receipt of a two-year artists bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. He is currently working on a number of scripts for stage, and a Flexistential cookbook. As creator of the collective Soul Gun Warriors Jeffrey is also finalizing work on a new audio theatre record.
Associate Artist/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) and Calpurnia/Pindarus (CSI Andy Hinds). 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.
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) and Calpurnia/Pindarus (CSI Andy Hinds). 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.
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