A Week @ The Well
A Week @ The Well 2025 offers professional freelance theatre practitioners paid time to work on an idea or project, time to deliberate, dream and plan, alongside other working artists as our foyer becomes a co-working space for five artists.
This years A Week @ The Well artists are Donal O'Kelly, Dylan McGloin, Joanna Sweeney, Maggie Kilcoyne, and Saramai Leech O'Keeffe.
We're looking forward to having a sneak peek into the projects that these fantastic artists are working on! Participants get:
• Paid for their week’s work.
• A desk in the theatre foyer.
• One days access to the stage space.
• A daily opportunity to brainstorm with their co-working colleagues.
• A daily shared light lunch together.
The A Week @ the Well programme is managed by Hawk’s Well Theatre and funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
About the Artists
Donal O’Kelly has been a professional theatre artist for 45 years, a member of Aosdána 2007-2010. He’s toured his solo shows Catalpa, Bat The Father Rabbit The Son, Jimmy Joyced!, Hairy Jaysus and Fionnuala nationally and throughout the world, also The Cambria and Little Thing, Big Thing (Fishamble) two-handers with Sorcha Fox. Other plays include Asylum! Asylum! (Peacock 1994), The Dogs (Rough Magic 1992), Operation Easter (Kilmainham Jail 2006), Vive La (Irish tour 2007-8), Running Beast (2007-8), The Memory Stick (San José Theatre USA 2017).
Dylan McGloin is an Irish theatre artist and performance designer whose work spans set design, devising, and actor-led creation. A graduate of Atlantic Technological University with a BA (Hons) in Performing Arts (Theatre Design), his practice blends innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to visual storytelling.
Joanna Sweeney is an Irish traditional musician, performing artist & academic with a Master of Arts in Irish traditional music performance awarded from the Irish World Academy of Music & Dance, University of Limerick focusing on regional styles of Irish traditional music particularly the North Connaught region on the West coast of Ireland. She has played at national festivals, international showcases, TEDx, Bergen Fleadh, Norway (2024/25), Boyle Arts Festival and the Trad@Lunch series at the Hawk’s well theatre, Ireland to date.
Maggie’s creative journey spans acting (both screen and theatre), songwriting, poetry, filmmaking, and youth arts facilitation. Memorable theatre credits include working with Punchdrunk Theatre Company, London, The Big Wall by Bob Kelly produced by The Hawk's Well theatre and working as a voiceover artist on a number of children's radio productions produced by poet Sinead McClure (All Points West) for RTE Junior Radio. A Sligo native, Maggie grew up treading the boards with The Phoenix Players, Tubbercurry and is incredibly proud of her South Sligo roots, an area that is rich in Traditional Music, Drama & storytelling.
Saramai, an artist, musician & mother, is representative of a new wave of music maker, in her diversity of music knowledge as well as practice; from classical contemporary, electronica, to substantial sound design. Working under the name 'Perlee' with collaborator Cormac O’Keeffe they are currently finishing their second album. 'Perlee' released their debut L.P. in 2023 to excellent press & radio play including a 4 star Irish Times review. A first class graduate of TCD’s masters Music & Media Technology Saramai is also trained in 'Music & Healthcare’ and has gained valuable experience working in hospital and nursing home settings.