Maria Schweppe 
Lead Producer 

Maria Schweppe is a director of Schweppe Curtis Nunn. A producer and programmer with 20 years experience working professionally in the arts, she was the Co-Director of Bram Stoker Festival from 2017 - 2020. Maria has also produced the Vodafone Comedy Tent at Body&Soul; The Irish Times Theatre Awards; a national tour for legendary comedy trio, Après Match and the Father Ted Experience at Electric Picnic. Maria was the Fellowships and Operations Coordinator at the Clore Leadership Programme, in London, from 2010 – 2015.

In 2016, she was the On-Site Arts Producer for Electric Picnic and in 2015 was Production & Operations Manager for Turkfest, a micro festival held on the island of Inishturk. She is the founder of the London Irish Comedy Festival. Previously she worked for: Dublin Youth Theatre, Axis, Ballymun’s Arts & Community Resource Centre and the St. Patrick’s Festival. Maria successfully completed an Advanced Certificate in Management Practice for the Arts at University of Ulster in association with Irish Times Training and Business2Arts from 2005 - 2006.

Naoise Nunn 
Producer 

Naoise Nunn is a director of Schweppe Curtis Nunn. He is the director of the MindField discussion and arts arena at Electric Picnic, which he founded in 2006; and of the Library of Progress stage at Body&Soul festival. He is a co-director of Kilkenny Animated, a festival of visual storytelling, which he co-founded with Paul Young, CEO of Cartoon Saloon. Naoise is also programme director of the Kilkenomics festival of economics. 

Previously, he was associate director of the Bram Stoker Festival with responsibility for curating and producing the literary strand and was artistic director of the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival between 2013 and 2016. In the deeper past, he created Leviathan, the political cabaret, and Club Absinthe by means of which he became the first person to ever import absinthe into Ireland. Naoise was also manager of the Après Match trio for a time and recently co-produced the inaugural Waterford Whispers News Live tour. He is from Kilkenny, lives in Kilkenny and served for more than 3 years as chairman of Kilkenny Tourism.

Tom Lawlor 
Marketing & Audience Development  

Tom has worked in the arts since 2007, across marketing, sponsorship, audience development and programming. He has connected hundreds of thousands of people nationally and internationally with memorable cultural experiences, and steered brands to meaningful engagements with those audiences.  Previous and ongoing clients include Body & Soul Festival, Audi Dublin International Film Festival, THISISPOPBABY, Waterways Ireland, Penguin Live Events, Macnas, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Kilkenny Cat Laughs, Dublin City Council, Failte Ireland, Universal Pictures Ireland and Airbnb. He was Co-Director of Bram Stoker Festival from 2015 - 2020.

Since 2015, Tom has brokered or managed sponsorships to the value of €1.8m. He has sat on the Board of Directors of GAZE international LGBT Film Festival and the ethical clothing company Re-Dress. His career started with Dublin Fringe Festival, followed by two years at Element Pictures before going freelance in 2015.

Jo Mangan 
Digital Programme Consultant 

Jo is Artistic Director/CEO of Carlow Arts Festival and The Performance Corporation. Recent freelance work focuses on Virtual Reality, Opera, Film and Circus: directing 5 Operas on film for 20 Shots of Opera (Irish National Opera), Jane Boyle for 14 Voices from the Bloody Field (Abbey Theatre), Bingo Wings (Fidget Feet) and curating the Prague Quadrennial Design Exhibition through VR, also exhibited at Dublin Theatre Festival and Belfast Festival. 

She is currently working as Director of Traction – a European VR/Community/Opera project for Irish National Opera, as well as a site-specific/VR project for Dublin and EXPO 2021 in Dubai. 

Jo founded The SPACE Programme, an artists residency with a current focus on Arts and Technology. Awarded the Clore Cultural Leadership Fellowship, she has served on many boards, including as Chair of the National Campaign for the Arts. Her work has won plaudits and awards internationally and nationally including a number of Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards comprising Best Director and Best Production nominations.

Deirdre Molloy
Coordinator 

Deirdre has worked extensively as a core team member and individual event project manager on many of Ireland’s top festivals including Bram Stoker Festival, Kilkenny Cat Laughs, Waterford Harvest Festival, Body & Soul, Electric Picnic, Vodafone Comedy Festival, Vodafone Comedy Carnival, Galway International Arts Festival, St Patrick’s Festival and Waterford International Music Festival.

She has produced a number of national and international theatre tours, including the award winning shows How to Square a Circle and THISISPOPBABY’s RIOT. Deirdre has directed numerous award-winning pieces of new writing including Phillip McMahon’s Danny and Chantelle (Still Here) for THISISPOPBABY - winner of Spirit of the Fringe Award 2007. 

As an actor, she has performed throughout Ireland and the UK, most recently in The Abbey’s Dear Ireland monologues.

Marcus Costello 
Production Manager 

Marcus works as a production manager for festivals, theatre and dance. He has worked for Dublin Fringe Festival, IETM, The National Famine Commemoration, The Irish Times Theatre Awards, The Casement Project and Bram Stoker Festival. 

He is a curator and production manager of the Drogheda Arts Festival. Over the years he has worked with many Irish companies including, Brokentalkers, THISISPOPBABY, Ouroboros, Storytellers, Midas Spaces, TEAM Theatre, Trevor Knight and Second Age.