Oregon State University

Oregon State University has a long history of producing Irish and Anglo-Irish plays, including:
1992, Medea in a new version by Brendan Kennelly with a setting in famine Northern Ireland
1993, SigNora Joyce by Gemma O’Connor (produced for ACIS West); traveled to Boise State University in winter of 1994
1997, American premiere of Charabanc’s Lay Up Your Ends
2001, American premiere of Declan Hughe’s Love and a Bottle
2001, Jennifer Johnston’s Twinkletoes, also presented to ACIS conference in Tacoma, WA
2002-present, reading of Unravelling the Ribbon, Loved Ones by Damian Gorman (this last was also done at several ACIS conferences) as was Jennifer Johnston’s monologues
2002-present, American premiere of Treehouses by Elizabeth Kuti
2005, hosted ACIS West with keynote speaker dramatist Nicola McCartney
2006, guest director of Observe the Sons of Ireland Marching Toward the Somme at Berry College and guest director of Nicola McCartney’s Heritage at University of Central Oklahoma
2012, The Sugar Wife by Elizabeth Kuti
2013/2014, American premiere of Teresa Deevy’s The King of Spain’s Daughter in a production that was “shadowed.” For every speaking actor, there was an actor, in costume, interpreting in American Sign Language
2015, Dolly West’s Kitchen by Frank McGuinness with Australian guest director Jade McCutcheon