Kate trained at the Yale Schoo of Drama and made her first stage appearance in in Jim Sheridan’s production of The Hostage at the Irish Arts Centre, New York. Other theatre credits incl. Double Cross with Field Day Theatre Co., John Bull’s Other Island (Gaiety, Dublin), The Picture of Dorian Grey, The Barbaric Comedies and Drama at Inish (Abbey Theatre, Dublin) The Blue Macushla, The Donohue Sisters and A Little Like Drowning (Druid Theatre Co,) Summer & Smoke (Apollo Theatre, London), Don Juan (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Reflected Glory (Vaudeville Theatre, London). She was nominated for an Irish Times Theatre award for Dead Funny (Rough Magic) and won Best Actress at the UK Regional Theatre Awards for Three Tall Women (Lyric, Belfast). Film & TV credits include: The Dead, Dancing at Lughnasa, Man on the Train, Eden, Laughter in the Dark, Malice Aforethought, The Tudors, Titanic, Blood and Steel, No Tears, Foreign Exchange and Denis Potter’s Karaoke.

Daniel Guinnane is an actor and musician. Acting credits include: Moby Dan, Dog (Barrabas); The Lost Days of Ollie Deasy (Macnas); Waiting for Godot, Dr. Faustus, Blood Wedding, Measure for Measure, The Duchess of Malfi (Theatrecorp); The Honey Spike (Mephisto); The Merchant of Venice (Thereisbear!); and Remanants, The Ramblers (Turas Theatre). He has also performed with Teatro Punto, The Gombeens, Lazerballet. He plays trumpet with Big Jelly, an 8-piece Ska Band. He has also worked on, My Poet Dark and Slender (2016) and Also for Raoring (2020) with Roisin Stack. In 2019 he performed at Edinburgh Fringe with The Mackerel Eaters.

Originally from Tipperary, Eilish McCarthy is a Galway based performer with a degree in Theatre & Performance from NUI Galway. Eilish is currently performing, devising and facilitating with Fregoli Theatre Company, as part of their Roscommon Arts Centre residency entitled Finding Home (2020, 2021). Credits include Inside You Stay, Cross Street, Fregoli Heart Project, You Could Be Us, Tape, Pleasure Ground and Mary Mary Mary with Fregoli Theatre Company. She has also worked with Decadent Theatre Company (The Pillowman, The Dead School, Vernon God Little), Druid Debuts (Galway International Arts Festival 2016), and RTE Radio 1 (A Matter of Modesty, 2016). After many years performing with Galway Youth Theatre, Eilish now designs and teaches courses with GYT and is passionate about youth and community arts development.

Eoin has worked on various projects on stage and screen for over ten years, including the feature films Arracht and Out Of Innocence, and the tv shows Grace Harte and Harry Wild. He has performed on stage in The Abbey Theatre with the acclaimed show Baoite by Darach Mac Con Iomaire and with the director Maoilíosa Stafford on the show Amhrán An Bhonnáin Bhuí in An Taibhdhearc in Galway. He his at his most comfortable working on musicals. He has performed as Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors (2012) as Mark Cohen in RENT (2013) and recently on a new musical 'Dragon' which he performed as part of the Body and Soul Music and Arts festival in the summer of 2019. Eoin performed as Christy Mahon in last year's version of The Playboy Musical in the Galway Summer Garden and is delighted to have the opportunity to do so again this year.

Fia Rua (Eoghan Burke) began his performing career as a singer/songwriter and ballad singer releasing four acclaimed albums, including this year’s ‘Behind The Grey’, and touring extensively in Ireland and Europe. He stepped into the acting world in 2010 and has since been performing in both disciplines. He has worked with Wilde Shamrock Touring Theatre, Money For The Sun Productions, Siamsiocht Productions and many more. Recent stage credits include The Plot (New Theatre 2018) ‘Finding Joesph’ (Lipzinc-Dean Crowe Theatre 2021), a one man show set in a state orphanage in 60’s Ireland, and ‘From The Plains – The Story Of John Devoy’, another one man show, written and performed by Fia and commissioned as part of the New York St Patricks Day Festival in 2019. He also presents podcasts (Kildare Speaks), does offline and online storytelling, and is a unique voice artist.

Fred McCloskey has been an actor and musician for over 25 years. He has been in numerous theatre, TV, and film productions over the years along with playing music and singing with numerous bands. He has been a leading cast member on TG4's Ros na Run for over 20 years. He has been involved in The Playboy of the Western World the Musical since 2012 when Justin McCarthy roped him in to sing on a few tracks that he was dreaming up in his studio. Delighted and excited to be back as Michael James.

Originally from Northern Ireland, Helen Gregg trained in theatre in Ireland and France and now lives and works in Galway. She is a core ensemble member with Branar Téatar do Pháistí, regularly devising new work and touring nationally with them. She has worked extensively with street and spectacle theatre company Macnas for over 25 years, was co-founder of Galway-based theatre company Electric Bridget, and more recently of innovative street theatre company Turas Theatre Collective, and is a member of Clowns Without Borders Ireland. She is an experienced actor, writer, improvisor, singer and voice-over artist.

Philip’s theatrical career began back in the dim recession laden 1980’s when Ireland was screaming out for eejits to take to the stage and make fools of themselves, Philip rushed to the cause. He spent his formative acting career with better men than him in the music halls of Kinvara and neighbouring villages in South Galway. In the 1990’s Philip took a giant leap forward and took acting and voice lessons with Galway Arts Centre and GYT. From there he played for many years with The Flying Pig Comedy Troupe writing and performing original Comedy Shows to Audiences all over Ireland and abroad, such as “Oliver Cromwell The Musical”, “Dial M For Marbles” and “Peig Sayers The Musical”, to name but a few. In 2003 Philip managed to secure a 2 month residency in The MGM Grand New York New York hotel and casino Las Vegas presenting a 4hour live show 6 nights a week. Over the years Philip has also been lucky enough to have worked with many great theatre companies at home and globally including several Macnas shows and spectacles. Film credits include “A Very Unlucky Leprechaun” and “Knocking on Deaths Door” and TV credits include “Fear An Phoist” comedy series for TG4 and “Remote Control” for BBC among other well forgotten or never seen programmes.

Producer/Musical Director/Composer/Musician

Cormac Dunne is the drummer with well-known Irish band The Stunning, who have had two No.1 albums in Ireland, Paradise in the Picturehouse (1990) and Once Around The World (1992) with the rock anthem Brewing Up A Storm being their signature song. Cormac has also toured and recorded with other artists including Ultan Conlon, Roesy and Sean Keane

Worked with bands The Little Fish, Maimin Cajun Band, Black Magic Big Band and The Screamin' Bluecats has two solo albums released and has worked with many of Ireland's leading musicians, and with RTE and RnaG . Holds a MA in Music Technology and works helping local musicians and songwriters in his own project studio Real Life

Tracy Bruen is a musician and actor from Galway. She has worked as an actor and a director with Fregoli Theatre Company for many years, performing on stages all over Ireland and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She acted in Decadent Theatre Company's production of Vernon God Little which toured nationally in 2015 and is a frequent performer with Macnas. In recent years Tracy has focused on her career as a singer-songwriter. She has played many of Ireland's main festivals, toured nationally and throughout Europe, and released an album and subsequent singles which have received regional and national radio airplay.