Once Off Productions is delighted to welcome Orla Flanagan to the team as our new Senior Producer.
Orla has over twenty years of arts management, producing and programming experience in live performance. She has been Director of glór, a thriving arts centre in Ennis for the past six years, and prior to this she worked in the UK for five years as Theatre Producer at Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival and was also General Manager at the Gate Theatre, London. Orla was Producer & General Manager at Fishamble: The New Play Company from 2005-2010 and was Literary Officer at the Abbey Theatre from 2001. Orla participated in the Arts Management Fellowship programme at the John F. Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C. as a Fulbright Scholar in 2007-08.
Speaking of the appointment Orla Flanagan said: “I am delighted to be returning to my roots in producing and joining Maura O’Keeffe and the great team at Once Off Productions in the role of Senior Producer. I particularly look forward to working with the impressively wide range of independent artists Once Off supports and I hope my producing and programming experience will help bring great work to many places.”
Maura O’Keeffe added: “With Sara Cregan taking up a mentorship role within the organisation, it is exciting to have Orla Flanagan step in to the Senior Producing role. She is a unique and exciting talent with a wealth of experience across all aspects of the performing arts and we are all really looking forward to working with her”
Led by a small team of experienced cultural sector professionals, Once Off Productions enables some of the most brilliant and exciting artists in Ireland today to develop, create and present new work by collaborating with artists and developing unique relationships that respond to the needs of each artist and project individually. The company is currently funded by the Arts Council through its Creative Production
Services pilot initiative and has developed projects with artists and companies including Philip Connaughton, Janet Moran, Carys Coburn, Eoghan Carrick & Lauren Shannon Jones, Manchán Magan, Laura Murphy, Peter Power, Michael Gallen, The Performance Corporation and Asylum Productions.