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Andy Currums

Interim Artistic Director & CEO

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Andy Currums

Interim Artistic Director & CEO

Andy joined Carlow Arts Festival as the Executive Director in 2023, taking on the role of Interim Artistic Director & CEO in September 2025. 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 Manager & Executive Assistant

Ferga Moran

Ferga Moran

Programme Manager & 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, managing vendors and external contractors, and being the lead on the festival’s essential administration systems.

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.

Mikee has worked extensively in Ireland, the UK and Europe, including two years at VISUAL Centre of Contemporary Art. 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

Shannon Basso Gaule

Festival Producer

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Shannon Basso Gaule

Festival Producer

Shannon works as a freelancer producer and stand up comedian based in Carlow.

Shannon has worked with the festival for a several years and currently co runs Kilkenny comedy club among other comedy venues in Ireland.

Contact

shannon@carlowartsfestival.ie

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