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Benjamin Perchet

Artistic Director & CEO

Benjamin Perchet

Benjamin Perchet

Artistic Director & CEO

Benjamin Perchet was appointed Artistic Director & CEO of Carlow Arts Festival in August 2021. Perchet is well known in the Irish scene for his leadership of Dublin Dance Festival from 2016-2021. He was previously Artistic Advisor for two major French institutions in Lyon: Maison de la Danse (2004-2015) and Biennale de la Danse (2008-2015).

Benjamin has also been an Aerowaves partner, a founding board member and treasurer of European Dancehouse Network (EDN) and a partner and management team member of Big Pulse Dance Alliance (BPDA), all of these networks and projects being co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the EU. He is the chairperson of Institut des Croisements / Arkadi Zaides and OD Works / Oona Doherty.

Contact
benjamin@carlowartsfestival.ie

Benjamin Perchet

Andy Currums

Executive Director

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Andy Currums

Executive Director

Andy joined Carlow Arts Festival as the Executive Director in 2023. Before moving to Ireland, Andy spent six years in Australia working as the Executive Producer for Shaun Parker & Company (2021-2023) and as a Producer at Sydney Festival (2018-2021). Prior to that, Andy was the Artistic Director of Creative Youth and the International Youth Arts Festival in Kingston-Upon-Thames, London.

Andy has extensive experience working in professional and community arts, as well as in educational settings - having facilitated numerous projects for charitable organisations and led courses and workshops at universities and learning centres across the UK.

Contact
andy@carlowartsfestival.ie

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Ferga Moran

Programme Coordinator & Executive Assistant

Ferga Moran

Ferga Moran

Programme Coordinator & Executive Assistant

Ferga has been working with Carlow Arts Festival since 2016. She is a Carlow Town native and graduate of Carlow College, St. Patricks with a B.A in Arts and Humanities.

Over her time working with the festival, Ferga has facilitated various participatory community projects, as well as looking after our national and international artists, vendors, and the festival’s administration.

When not organising planes, trains, automobiles, venues and people, you’ll find Ferga dancing in her kitchen or wandering amongst the trees.

Contact
fmoran@carlowartsfestival.ie

Ferga Moran

Orlaith Treacy

Creative Producer

Orlaith Treacy

Orlaith Treacy

Creative Producer

Orlaith Treacy has been working with Carlow Arts Festival since 2022. Orlaith's work is focused on ASSEMBLY, our arts participation and engagement programme. She collaborates with artists and communities to develop year-round projects.

Orlaith has an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from Limerick School of Art and Design. In 2021, she completed a postgraduate course in Cultural Event Management with IADT Dun Laoghaire. She has previously worked with Workhouse Union, Asylum Productions, Monkeyshine and Super Paua.

Contact
orlaith@carlowartsfestival.ie

Orlaith Treacy

Mikee Lonergan

Festival Production Manager

Mikee Lonergan

Mikee Lonergan

Festival Production Manager

Mikee works as a freelance production manager in opera, theatre and dance, and is based in Wexford where he lives happily with his family.

He is delighted to be working once more in Carlow with a great creative team. Carlow has become like a second home the last 2 years where Mikee has been working closely with VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art.

Mikee has worked extensively in Ireland, the UK and Europe. Previous Irish work includes Teac Damsa‘s ‘Mám’ and ‘Swanlake’; INO’s ‘Fidelio’, ‘Alice’s Adventures Underground‘, ’Magic Flute‘, and ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’; and Fabulous Beast Dance Company‘s ’Rian‘, ’Rite of Spring‘, and ’James’s Son of James’.

Mikee Lonergan

Janice De Bróithe

Volunteer Manager

Janice

Janice De Bróithe

Volunteer Manager

Janice is a Theatre Director and Facilitator. She holds a BA and an MA in Drama & Theatre Studies from UCC and a PG Dip in Theatre Directing from LAMDA. She is currently the Theatre Coordinator in KCAT Arts Centre and Assistant Producer of Carlow Live & Local. She is also the founder and Artistic Director of Slapdash Theatre Co., a community-based theatre company in Carlow.

Janice previously worked as Assistant Producer and Community Coordinator in VISUAL and she regularly teaches and facilitates drama in primary, secondary and further education schools and facilitates a variety of drama workshops for various community groups and organisations.

Janice

Shannon Basso Gaule

Assistant Arts Administrator

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Shannon Basso Gaule

Assistant Arts Administrator

Shannon is a stand-up comedian and producer from Carlow. He is the producer and host of monthly comedy shows Stand Up at Scraggs and Laughs at the Halfway House.

He has gigged in all the top comedy venues in Ireland, Europe and New Zealand.

Shannon has a Bachelors in Communications and Public Relations and according to his family is funny sometimes.

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