The Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute is delighted to announce director and artist Eoghan Carrick as its inaugural Rough Magic Fellow.  The Fellowship has been created by the research institute to mark the company’s connections with Trinity College Dublin, including Trinity Library where its archive is housed.  

Rough Magic Forty decal at the Trinity Long Room Hub

Rough Magic is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed independent theatre companies, and a leader in mentoring and support for theatre artists. The fellowship builds on the experience of a previous collaboration with Rough Magic around the practice of choral singing, which was showcased at the Trinity Long Room Hub 10th anniversary celebrations in 2020.  The Trinity Long Room Hub has been welcoming Visiting Research Fellows for over a decade. The prestigious programme brings Trinity’s researchers into intensive dialogue with the best of their respective fields internationally and is proven to energise scholarship and creative practice.

The Rough Magic Fellow will develop a creative project in the interdisciplinary environment of the Hub, sharing practice-based experience with the institute’s research community and working in collaboration with Trinity’s Creative Arts Practice Research Theme.

The inaugural Rough Magic Fellow Eoghan Carrick is an artist based in Dublin, Ireland. He works primarily as a director in theatre. In autumn 2025, Eoghan will premier Konstantin with Lauren Moukarzel and Once Off Productions. Recent directing credits include: Guest Host Stranger Ghost (Once Off Productions/Dublin Theatre Festival, 2024), Theatre for One: This Island (Landmark Productions/Cork Midsummer Festival, 2024), Haus of Fash Hun (FemmeBizarre/Dublin Fringe Festival, 2023), Songs from the Soil (The Ark Theatre, 2023), Good. Orderly. Direction. (Bitter Like a Lemon/Dublin Theatre Festival, 2022), Rescue Annie (Once Off Productions/Dublin Fringe Festival, 2021), Bodies of Water (Corn Exchange/Dublin Fringe Festival, 2019), Midsummer (EK Productions/Project Arts Centre, 2019), INFINITY (Mermaid Arts Centre/Dublin Fringe Festival, 2018), Nora (Corn Exchange/Dublin Theatre Festival, 2017). As a writer, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Banshee, Cyphers, The Stony Thursday and others. Eoghan is an associate artist with Once Off Productions. His work is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. He is currently the Chair of Praxis: the Artist Union of Ireland. 

With a focus on how technology and design can create intimate, human moments in theatre, Eoghan’s project will explore audience immersion and the application of technological approaches to staging theatrical texts.

Trinity’s Department of Drama has been at the forefront of exploring the inter-face and relationship between technology and theatre, through projects such as V-Sense which staged Beckett in augmented reality (AR) for the first time.

Eoghan Carrick

Congratulating Eoghan on his appointment as Rough Magic Fellow, Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub said:

“We’re delighted to launch the new Fellowship in partnership with our friends at Rough Magic, and we’re excited to host our first practitioner Eoghan and support him as he draws on the Hub’s rich inter-disciplinary environment to explore the human experience through performance.”

Lynne Parker, Artistic Director Rough Magic Theatre Company said:

“Eoghan is the ideal artist to launch this exciting new Fellowship. His intellectual curiosity and breadth sit well with the Hub’s polymathic approach, and he is a natural collaborator. We are delighted that he will represent Rough Magic in this generous and intensely stimulating environment.

 

For more visit: www.eoghancarrick.com