Who We Are
The team behind the Moon & Sixpence are an eclectic bunch, with experience and expertise in a variety of creative and performance areas. Each member of the team also works in other areas and their differing backgrounds and personalities help to shape the very particular creative performances of Ireland’s travelling marionette theatre.
Dr Martin Molony
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Doc Martin is a lecturer at DCU’s School of Communications, where he teaches a range of communications-related subjects and has previously designed and delivered a module in puppetry. Martin’s PhD considered the impact and significance of the puppet theatre in Ireland over three centuries and can be read here.
Martin founded the Moon & Sixpence with a close friend in the early 1980s and revived the theatre in its current form in 2013. He writes the panto-style scripts and acts as frontman for our performances.
Ciara Cramer
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Ciara is a scenic designer and scenic artist and has a degree in Design from IADT. She has designed and managed the execution of the sets for the Gaiety Panto since 2015 and worked, as a scenic artist, on over twenty major theatrical productions. Ciara has also designed and created interactive sets for a range of clients, including the National Wax Museum, Arnotts and Tayto.
Grainne Bath-Enright
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Grainne is an artist, designer and illustrator and is a graduate of IADT. Having worked in large-scale set design for several years, Grainne now specialises in creating a range of “GBE” fine art prints, inspired by Irish wildlife and nature.
Pat Lanigan-Ryan
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Pat started the theatre, together with Martin Molony, in the early 1980s and continues to advise on, and assist with, some of the technical solutions needed in producing theatre on a miniature scale.
Helena Clarke