Patrick trained at the Le Coq International school in Paris and is an award winning writer and Artistic Director for Tinderbox Theatre Company in Belfast.

Since his appointment as AD, he has directed a number of critically acclaimed works such as Rhino, The Man Who Fell to Pieces, Ubu the King. He was awarded the Stewart Parker BBC Drama Award for his production The Weein in 2009. The Man Who Fell To Pieces was nominated for a ZeBBie award for best play of 2018 and in 2021 he received a National Lottery Nomination for his continuous artistic programmes for artists during the pandemic.

Most recent productions include Birds of Passage in the Half Light, (Edinburgh Festival 2022) Something Different March 2023, Dressed for Space Rotterdam Daken Dagen, Faro Acoteia Festival, Holding Ground by Jack Dawson and I’ve always liked the name Marcus by Matthew Sharpe.

Patrick has also directed numerous productions for the Lyric theatre; Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell, Big Man by Paul McVeigh and Hansel and Gretel by Tara-Lynne O’Neil. Patrick also works as an accredited licensed Creative Therapist and meditation facilitator in Northern Ireland and has delivered creative well-being programmes for Women’s Aid, Nexus NI, Theatre and Dance NI and the Shared Island Intercultural programme.

Garth has worked extensively as a Composer, Sound Designer, Musical Director, Arranger and Music Producer for studios, theatre, film and television. Garth's work has been performed and broadcast all over the UK, Ireland and internationally as part of theatrical productions, exhibitions, art installations, television and radio.

Recent TV/Radio Credits include: Derry Girls (Hat Trick Productions, Channel 4), Flight (BBC1 / BBC4), My Mother and Other Strangers (BBC 1), Malaria, (BBC Comic Relief), Days Like This (BBC NI, nominated for IFTA), Wee Wise Words (BBC NI), Not Now Farley (BBC Learning Zone), On the Air (BBC NI), Ulster Volunteers (RTE), A Year in Sex City (DoubleBand Films/BBC1).

Theatre Credits include: Mirrorball (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Rebus: A Game Called Malice (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch), The Gap Year (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), X’ntigone (Prime Cut Productions / MAC, Belfast), The Border Game (Prime Cut Productions), A Night in November (Soda Bread, Chiswick Playhouse), Mojo Mickybo (Bruiser), In the Name of the Son (GBL Productions), A Christmas Carol (MAC Belfast), Rebus: Long Shadows (Birmingham Repertory Theatre), The Miami Showband Story (GBL Productions, Grand Opera House, Belfast, Gaiety Theatre, Dublin), Bouncers (Big Telly / MAC Belfast), Spud! (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Freak Show (Big Telly), Tamed (Southwark Playhouse, London), The Elves and the Shoemaker (MAC Belfast, Cahoots NI), A Night In November (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Penguins (Cahoots NI, Birmingham Repertory Theatre), Under the Hawthorn Tree (Cahoots NI, MAC Belfast), Hansel & Gretel (MAC Belfast), Aladdin (SSE Arena, Belfast), Nivelli's War (Cahoots NI, New Victory Theater, Broadway, New York, Lyric Theatre, Belfast), The Faerie Thorn (Big Telly), Madame Geneva (Macha Productions), Pinocchio (MAC Belfast, Cahoots NI), Macbeth (YMT:UK, Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Edinburgh Fringe Fesꢀval, RADA Studios and Sadler's Wells Theatre), Christmas Eve Can Kill You (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Shh! We Have a Plan (Cahoots NI, touring China, 2019), Egg, (Cahoots NI, touring USA, 2016), The Scarlet Web (Big Telly), Mistletoe & Crime (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Sometimes There's Light [Sometimes There's Dark] (Moving Dust, Asylum, London and touring, 2014), God of Carnage (Prime Cut Productions), Crazy (GBL Productions), My English Tongue, My Irish Heart (Green Shoot Productions), Forget Turkey (Lyric Theatre, Belfast).

Diana is a Belfast-based set and costume designer working in theatre, opera, TV and Film. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic. Her recent work includes costume design on 3 seasons of the RTS Ireland nominated Best Children’s CBBC show Nova Jones (Jam Media). Also, costume design on season 1 of Bafta nominated and RTS NI winning CBBC’s Silverpoint (Zodiak Kids).

Her film credits include costume designer on Nightrider (Village films dir. Stephen Fingleton) Shooting for Socrates (new black films dir. James Erskin) Stumpy’s Brae (Six Mile Hill dir. Chris Baugh) and The Music Room (Big Fish productions dir. Mick Gordon).

She is returning to the MAC to design our set after previously designing for their Christmas shows on The Night Before Christmas, Cinderella (MAC/Cahoots dir. Paul McEneaney), The Untold Truth of Captain Hook (Replay dir. Janice Kerroghan), A Christmas Carol (the MAC, dir. Sean Kearns), Elves and the Shoemaker (MAC/Cahoots, dir. Paul McEneaney).

She previously designed both set and costume in the MAC for their productions of Bouncers (MAC/Big Telly dir. Zoe Seaton) Abigail’s Party (dir. Richard Croxford) and The Importance of Being Ernest (MAC/Bruiser dir. Lisa May).

Her recent theatre credits include set and costume design for Mirrorball (Replay, dir. Janice Kerroghan) and for Opera, costume design on La Bohème (NI Opera, dir. Cameron Menzies).

Her design work has been exhibited with the ISSSD in 2019.

Natalie is from Belfast and graduated from the University of Ulster with a BA Hons in Drama in 2011. She has worked as a Stage Manager and Production Manager in Northern Ireland since 2011 and has toured the U.K., Ireland and Europe. She has worked with many local theatre, dance, festival and arts organisations in Belfast and Northern Ireland, and in various venues such as The Lyric and the Grand Opera House. Natalie is delighted to be back working at the MAC, having worked on their very first production in 2012, and many since.

Jordan Nelson graduated from Southampton Solent University in 2016, working as a Stage and Production Manager since. Most recently working as Production Manager on YERMA for Tinderbox Theatre Company. He also worked as DSM at the MAC last Christmas on The Night Before Christmas.

He has been the Company Stage Manager at Cabaret Supperclub for several years working with Cabaret, singing, drag, burlesque and tribute performances both as a Stage Manager and technician. He has worked with a variety of theatre companies with other credits including: Production Manager on The Man Who Swallowed a Dictionary, Stage Manager on I AM MAURA, Bruiser Theatre Company’s tours of TEECHERS, Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Abridged and the all Ireland tour of Mojo Mickeybo and (Green Shoot Productions). Other work includes, The Shop at The Top of the Town at Theatre at the Mill.

Sophie graduated in 2015 from The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, in Theatre and Performance Technology.

Throughout her Stage Management career she has worked with various Theatre companies and Theatres throughout Northern Ireland such as Lyric Theatre, The MAC, Theatre at The Mill, Cahoots NI, c21 Theatre Company, Commedia of Errors, David Hull Promotions, Kabosh Theatre Company, Maiden Voyage Dance, NI Opera, Replay Theatre Company, Terra Nova Productions and Tinderbox Theatre Company.

She has also worked in TV as the Stage Manager for ‘Give My Head Peace’ for the BBC.

Paula O’ Reilly is a Belfast-based Choreographer and Movement Director with a rich body of work that spans across Theatre, Opera, Musicals, TV and Film. Using her understanding of both classical and contemporary dance styles, she fuses physical storytelling with inventive choreography, creating visceral and captivating experiences on stage and screen.

Over her years of collaborating with leading directors, performers, and creatives, Paula has shaped movement for many productions, most recently: Malaprop’s HotHouse, Xnthony Ltd Lourdes! The Musical! WIP, Callings by Kabosh, Tartuffe and Somewhere Out There You at The Abbey Theatre, Lie Low at The Royal Court, Hansel & Gretel and Little Women at The Lyric Belfast.

Paula is known for her ability to evoke emotional depth through movement with a speciality in comedy and a talent for making everyone feel they CAN dance!

Jonathan is a playwright and lighting designer based in Belfast.

Recent lighting design credits include: The Tragedy Of Richard III (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), All Growed Up (BYMT), I Always Liked The Name Marcus & Holding Ground (Tinderbox Theatre Company), Waiting For The Offo (Bosco Productions), No Citation (Bourke Productions), and Mirrorball & The Untold Truth of Captain Hook (Replay Theatre Company).

Upcoming lighting design work includes: Rose + Bud (Commedia of Errors), Touch Hear Feel (Belfast International Arts Festival) and The Velveteen Rabbit (Replay Theatre Company/Lyric Theatre, Belfast).

Jonathan’s written work has been performed all over the UK and Ireland.

Recent writing credits include: Sylvan (Tinderbox Theatre Company), The Revolution Will Be Streamed & Vection (Headrush, Ireland), Release & A Body, Twice (Ever Unique Productions).

Jonathan is currently working on a new play about the Belfast DeLorean factory, which started life as a Lyric Theatre Belfast seed commission.

After graduating with a BA Honours in Fashion and Textiles at The University of Ulster Gillian Lennox went on to be a designer within the fashion industry. After a spell designing for Marks & Spencer Menswear Gillian began a 14-year career working for a London based manufacturing/design company where she progressed to Head Designer supplying companies such as online retailer ASOS, and Ireland high street stores Dunnes and A-Wear. Her designs for ASOS and A–Wear were often featured in magazine editorials.

Gillian’s work often took her overseas to Paris, Syria, and Morocco where she gained insight into the entire process of textile design, garment, and pattern construction. Throughout her career Gillian also continued with her own freelance work and has been a maker within the movie industry in NI.

In 2022 Gillian engaged in a living history tender for Mid Ulster Council designing and producing twenty-three costumes for historical sites and National trust properties. Gillian was Head of Costume at The Lyric Theatre from 2017 to early 2024, supervising all producing shows and costume designer for the below productions.

Costume Design credits include, Dr Scroggy’s War, Alice: The Musical, Good Vibrations, Double Cross, Rough Girls (Arts & Business Awards) Dark of the Moon, Shirley Valentine, Peter Pan: The musical, 1984 (Postponed Covid), Sadie, Dracula, Pinocchio: The Musical Blue stockings, The Snow Queen: The Musical, Romeo & Juliet, Good Vibrations 2023 New York (Broadway Ireland - Winner for Best Costume Design), Tosca (NI Opera), Hansel & Gretel, Little Women, The Hand (Short Film), Little Amal (Belfast 24) and most recently Onegin (NI opera).

Gavin is a multidisciplinary creative from Belfast working as an Actor, AV/VR Designer and Filmmaker. Gavin has had the opportunity to work across Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, as well as in France, Canada, Sweden and New York.

Gavin completed a one-month artist residency in Northern Sweden, creative lab, where he was one of twenty international artists selected to make a virtual reality film that was toured across Sweden in a portable gallery.

Gavin Attended SXSW where he showcased a piece he developed as Creative Director, with Big Telly Theatre Company, adapting the previous site-specific theatre experience into an immersive interactive VR experience.

Recent Av Design credits include: Doppler Effect (the Belfast Ensemble), Riot Symphony (Belfast Ensemble), The Headless Solider (Belfast Ensemble) , Windswept Beaches (Gavin Peden & Big Telly), Mirrorball (Replay), Duck Duck Goose (Fishamble), The House (Big Telly), The Musician (the Belfast Ensemble), Ten Plagues (the Belfast Ensemble), Septep (the Belfast Ensemble), Fall of the House of Usher (the Belfast Ensemble), C*** of Queen Catherine (the Belfast Ensemble), Something in the Air (Brassneck)

Recent Filmmaking credits Include:
Too Many Doors VR, The House VR, Two Fingers Up, Heave, Beautiful, Take Him Out, Mr Penny, Handyman’s Tool, and One of Lifes Little Lessons.