Jim Culleton

Jim Culleton is the artistic director of Fishamble: The New Play Company, for which he has directed productions on tour throughout Ireland, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US, including eleven transfers Off-Broadway. Hisproductions for Fishamble have won Olivier, The Stage, Scotsman Fringe First, and Irish Times Best Director awards.

Jim has directed for the Abbey, the Gaiety, the Belgrade, 7:84 Scotland, Project, Amharclann de hÍde, Tinderbox, Passion Machine, the Ark, Second Age, Dundee Rep, CoisCéim/Crash Ensemble/GIAF, Little Museum of Dublin, Fighting Words, Scripts, Dirty Protest, Staatstheater Mainz, Draíocht and Baptiste Programme. He has directed audio plays for Audible, BBC, RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ Lyric FM.

He has also directed for Vessel and APA (Australia), Solas Nua, Mosaic and Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Odyssey (LA), Inis Nua (Philadelphia), Origin, Irish Arts Center, New Dramatists, Irish Rep, and 59E59 (New York), as well as for Trafalgar Theatre Productions on the West End and IAC/Symphony Space on Broadway.

Jim has taught at NYU, NUI, GSA, Uversity, the Lir Academy Villanova, Notre Dame, UM, UMD, JNU, TU Dublin, Drexel and TCD. He has previously edited Voice Our Concern for Amnesty International, and Fishamble/Pigsback: First Plays, Tiny Plays for Ireland, Fishamble Firsts, and Contemporary Irish Monologues (co-edited with Clodagh O’Donoghue), also for New Island Books.