Ciarán Bagnall is a professional Lighting and Set Designer with over twenty five years experience in theatre design. He is based in Belfast, and as well as being a freelance Lighting and Set Designer, he is the Creative Director of Prime Cut Productions.

After training at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff he became a full time member of the Lighting Department at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre. At the Haymarket, Ciaran designed the Lighting for productions such as Excavate, The Crane (RedEarth Theatre Company), Contaminated Candy, Stolen, The Cripple of Inishmann, Bollywood Jane, Bed, Mine, Love in the 21st Century, The Leicester Comedy Festival 2003, Othello, Safe Passage, Oedipus the King, Winters Sun, Heroes, The Threepenny Opera, Roses of Eyam, Sugar and Slugs, and Divided We Stand. 

On his departure from the Leicester Haymarket in 2003, Ciarán became a freelance designer in London where he was based for five years. He has since returned home to Ireland and continues to work both nationally and internationally.

Ciarán Bagnall Website

Niall Rea lectures in Theatre Design and Performing Arts at Atlantic University Sligo. He received his AHRC funded doctorate from the Brian Friel Centre for Theatre Research at Queen’s University in Belfast.

Niall also works with choreographers to stage experimental dance pieces; including the Puerto Rican National Ballet, Melanie Stewart Dance, Philadelphia and Theatre Encorps in London.
His practice-based academic research explores the performance of queer identities in Northern Ireland through the conflict and post-conflict periods. He is artistic director and designer of TheatreofplucK, Northern Ireland’s first publicly funded gay theatre company. TheatreofplucK were in residence at the MAC, Belfast’s modern contemporary arts centre, when it opened in 2012/13, preparing four productions all of which examine LGBT people in society, and all either world or Irish Premieres.