Origin Theatre Company

Our start to our fiscal year 2023 was taken up with fundraising and preparation of the events to be held starting in january 2023. Interviewing playwrites, reading plays lining up actors, readers and stage managers in the irish community kept to our mission. January 9th to january 31, 2023, Origin Theatre Company presented its annual 1st irish Theatre festival. 1st irish festival is a month-long celebration of irish inspired Theatre, culture, and film. Due to the covid 19 global pandemic, this was the first fully in person festival in almost 3 years. We present the festival both in an online and hybrid format during the preceding years, limited by the measures enforced due to the pandemic. We presented 21 events culminating in a memorable awards ceremony featuring the cross border orchestra of ireland and a performance by the fairfield youth choir, at the new irish arts center in hells kitchen, nyc. The following productions were presented with the related Theatre companies and venues. Theatre performances were: the smuggler by ronan noone at the irish repertory Theatre, heaven by eugene obrien at 59 e59 in cooperation with fishamble frankensteins monster is drunk and the sheep have all jumped the fences at 59 e59 with big telly Theatre Company from northern ireland herself by tim mcgillicuddy at the new york irish center, beauty and the beast by scott kennedy at an beal bocht in the bronx, scor on broadway at symphony space, endgame by samuel beckett at the irish repertory Theatre, its in the play by orlagh cassidy at the ell Theatre, the funny thing about death by kim kalish at the cell Theatre, changing the sheets by harry butler at an beal bocht in the bronx, ny, and brigid by maura mulligan at the new york irish center in long island city, ny. We also presented various readings in our plays in may event. The readings are as follows: hunger by bohdun boychuk at the irish arts center, worlds by john kearns at the irish arts center which included a book launch, dublin noir presented by honor molloy at the irish arts center, thirst presented by ronan noone at the irish arts center, those you pass on the street by laurence mckeown at the irish arts center, we also presented film screenings as follows: the letters by robbie walsh at ryans daughter and crossing the waters with the iawa at the cell Theatre.