Soso

Sorcha Ní Cheallaigh

Writer + Performance Artist + Creative Facilitator  + Theatre Maker +

Freelance - Open for Commissions

Soso (Sorcha) Ní Cheallaigh
8 Cranlee Park
Derry, BT488AJ 

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Instagram / Twitter: @ohbysoso

Training

National Youth Theatre of GB & NI
JULY 2012 - PRESENT

NYT Creative Leadership Training
JULY 2020 - JUNE 2021

Lyric Theatre Drama Studio 2020
AUG 2020 - JULY 2021 

WOMENFOLK & Blick Studios Dig Deep Creative Entrepeneurship
OCT 2020 - APRIL 2021

Education

Trinity College Dublin
2014 - 2019
BA (hons) English Studies - I

Queen's University Belfast
2020 - 2023
MA Poetry

Select Publications

The Fall  / A Tale of Two Cities
2022,  ‘MASK’ AN INTERVIEW WITH CAROLINE ACHAINTRE

Array Collective  / An Síbín
2021, Irish translator for bilingual statements, museum materials and press.

Ghost City Press  / Parasocial Reality
2021,  SUMMER SERIES MICROCHAP - READ

The Honest Ulsterman  / 'Intimacy at a Distance'
2021,  SUMMER SERIES MICROCHAP - READ

Abridged  / Nothing to Look Forward to but the Past
2020,  ‘FRAGMENTS - MY BODY IN PARTS’ - READ

Nite Creme  / MotorAction
2020,  ‘SELF-PORTRAIT (2019)’

Nerve Centre + RRR + NMNI / Reimagine Remake Replay
2020, ’BED SOUP: ART, MENTAL HEALTH & THE PANDEMIC’ -  READ

Select Productions

Speak Out (R&D) / Ensemble
dir. Nay Murphy
2022,  NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE

Peep / May
dir. Isabelle Martin
2021,  BRIAN FRIEL THEATRE

Ignition: Belfast / Ensemble
dir. Maggie Bain + Felipe Pacheco
2021,  FRANTIC IGNITION + LYRIC THEATRE BELFAST

Dracula / Florrie
dir. Philip Crawford
2021,  LYRIC THEATRE BELFAST

Last Train to Nibroc / May
dir. Philip Crawford (Radio)
2020,  LYRIC THEATRE DRAMA STUDIO

Facilitation

University of Atypical / European Commission
Bodyshining / Temporary Workshop & Project Facilitator and Trainer
2022, BARI, ITALY 

CRAFT:IN / Temporary Project Facilitator 
2022, ŠKOFJA LOKA, SLOVENIA

National Youth Theatre of Great Britain & Northern Ireland
Part-time Intake Course (Digital) / Assistant Director
Course Director: Melissa Taylor
2022, ONLINE

Start-Up & Restart (Digital) / Assistant Director
Course Director: Charles Furness
2022,  ONLINE

Start-Up & Restart (Digital) / Assistant Director
Course Director: Katy Weir
2022,  ONLINE

Senior Summer Courses / Assistant Director
Course Director: Kash Arshad 
2021,  ROYAL & DERNGATE

Freedom Company / Co-Director
2021,  ONLINE

Senior Summer Courses (Digital)  / Assistant Director
2020,  ONLINE

Awards

Arts Council of NI  / Creative Individuals Recovery Programme
AWARDED 2021

University of Atypical  / DDASF Award
AWARDED 2021

Memberships

Theatre & Dance NI 
National Youth Theatre of GB & NI
Catalyst Arts

 

 

© Soso / Sorcha Ní Cheallaigh (2022)

This website was built with support from
the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

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