Peter Pan Theatre Announces Participants for Mentorship with Tim Crouch

Pan Pan Theatre has announced the participants for its third International Mentorship & Bursary programme. The participants are: Amy Conroy, Paul Curley, Kate Heffernan, Hilary O'Shaughnessy and Martin Sharry. Internationally acclaimed theatre maker, writer and performer Tim Crouch, will work as a mentor with these artists, developing early-stage ideas for performance projects.

Each of the five selected projects will be developed through a series of engagements with Tim and will receive a bursary which will help the artists dedicate time to working on their ideas. The projects will culminate in a performance of the work at a one-day symposium in May 2015. Speaking about the participants, joint artistic director of Pan Pan, Gavin Quinn said, "We are delighted to have the extraordinary artist, Tim Crouch, as the mentor this year. By engaging an internationally recognised theatre maker to work with Irish artists, we want to create a situation of exchange and an opportunity for Irish artists to experience ways of making and talking about work that is new to them."

Tim Crouch is a UK theatre artist based in Brighton. He writes plays, performs in them and takes responsibility for their production. He started to make his own work in 2003. Tim was an actor for many years before starting to write - and he still performs in much of his work.

Speaking about his mentorship, Tim Crouch said, "It's an honour to lead Pan Pan's International Mentorship scheme. Much of my work is created through conversation - a process of thinking together with trusted collaborators. I'm looking forward to participating in this process from the other side - offering my experience as a sounding board for others who are engaged in making their own work."

Tim's plays include My Arm, ENGLAND (a play for galleries), An Oak Tree and The Author and I, Malvolio, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He recently presented what happens to the hope at the end of the evening, a performance made with Andy Smith, at the Dublin Theatre Festival 2014.

Previous Pan Pan International Mentorships were led by Kirsten Dehlholm, director of the Danish company Hotel Pro Forma in 2012 and in 2013 the mentor was Viviane DeMunyck, a core collaborator with Needcompany, Belgium. Past participants of the Pan Pan International Mentorship programme in 2012 were Gina Moxley, Una McKevitt, Aoife Spillane-Hinks, Tom Lane and in 2013, Thomas Conway, Lynnette Moran, Bush Moukarzel, Dick Walsh and Louise White.