​ABOUT BOMBINATE

Bombinate Theatre is an award-winning collective of emerging theatre makers, creating work for families and young audiences.

'​Bombinate' means to make a humming or a buzzing noise. We encourage children to make noise, to ask big questions and to stay on their own buzz. We endeavour to inspire children to get creative and to engage with the arts in all its forms.
Photography by Aoife Leonard.
Bombinate Theatre was recently selected as one of two companies to partake in Baboró's new development programme, GROW: Pathways to Production. The programme will support Bombinate in the development of a new play, with a view to presenting a full performance piece.

Bombinate Theatre was a company in residence at D-Light Studios from November 2017 to February 2018. Bombinate Theatre was also awarded Dublin City Council's Incubation Award, and developed work at The Lab's Incubation Space throughout March 2018.
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​BOMBINATE AIMS
  • ​To produce engaging, high-quality theatre and workshops for families and young audiences.
  • To approach big questions and encourage an appetite for wonder.
  • To strive to create work which is accessible to young people and families with varying needs and interests.
  • To foster a creative process which prioritizes collaboration and dialogue between artists and audiences alike.


​​WHO WE ARE

​Mollie Molumby, Co-Founder and Artistic Director

Mollie is a theatre director, writer and drama facilitator based in Dublin. She studied Drama at the Samuel Beckett Centre at Trinity College Dublin, and trained in Drama Facilitation at Artstrain (Youth Theatre Ireland). Mollie is passionate about making theatre for all ages. She directed Bombinate Theatre's debut production, Half Light (Dublin Fringe 2016, First Fortnight 2017, National Tour 2018), which she devised with the ensemble and creative team. Other directing credits include Vaudeville! (Dublin Youth Theatre, Teacher's Club 2018), How to be a Superhero (WIP at Smock Allies: Scene + Heard 2017), The 24 Hour Musical (Players Theatre, 2015) and Breathe (Players Theatre, 2014). Mollie has completed internships at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York and The Ark in Dublin.

​​Ellen Gorman, Co-Founder

Ellen graduated from the Samuel Beckett Centre in 2016, and now works as a freelance lighting designer and stage manager.
Lighting design credits include Displaced Family Project (Talking Shop Ensemble, WIP at Mermaid Arts Centre 2017); At Swim, Two Boys (Forty Feet, Samuel Beckett Theatre 2016); The Dumb Waiter (Aoife Meagher, Samuel Beckett Theatre 2015). Lighting assistant credits include The Eurydice Project (White Label, Space Upstairs 2017); The Snow Queen (Smock Alley Theatre 2016); Mother You (Louise White, Dublin Fringe 2015).
Stage management credits include Reason in Madness (Run of the Mill Theatre, Draíocht Arts Centre 2016); PINK_MILK (The Virgin Eclectic, The New Theatre 2016); Bob & Judy (Fast Intent, Theatre Upstairs 2015); Advocacy (Talking Shop Ensemble, Dublin Fringe 2014); Way Back Home (ASM, Louise White, Dublin Fringe 2013).
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​Ursula McGinn, Co-Founder

​Ursula's focus lies in directing, devising, design and stage management. An outgoing member of Dublin Youth Theatre, Ursula graduated from the Samuel Beckett Centre in 2017.
Her directing credits include Road Trip (Aurora Festival, Trinity College Dublin, 2017), Nothing (Samuel Beckett Theatre, 2016), Ross & Rachel (Samuel Beckett Theatre, 2016) and Fresh (Players Theatre, 2015). Her recent devising and development credits include Efficacy 84 (Samuel Beckett Theatre, 2017), Briseis After the Black (Tiger Dublin Fringe, 2016 and On Corporation Street (ANU and HOME MCR, 2016). Recent design credits include Bombinate's Half Light and How to be a Superhero, King Lear (Smock Alley Theatre, 2017) and Sunny Dayz (Samuel Beckett Theatre, 2017).
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​Tilly Taylor, Co-Founder

Tilly Taylor is a freelance stage manager, production manager, and creative producer, with a primary focus on collaborative work that prioritises conversation between audience and performer. She graduated from the Samuel Beckett Centre in 2016, specialising in management and facilitation for devised theatre.
​Recent stage and production management credits include Collected Stories for Then This Theatre (Viking Theatre, Civic Theatre, Smock Alley Theatre, Riverbank Arts Centre), the Shakespeare for Schools programme at the Gaiety School of Acting (nationwide tour), Enemy of The Stars (Samuel Beckett Centre and Fes Festival of University Theatre, Morocco), The Machinewreckers, Homunculus, and pool (no water) (all at The Samuel Beckett Theatre). Tilly also works in live art and performance, and is a producer at Live Collision.
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