Jo Mangan

Artistic Director

Jo is Artistic Director of The Performance Corporation.

Recent directing credits for company include Power Point (Absolut Fringe Dublin), Cool Fresh Milk (the Electronic Church Berlin and the Darklight Festival Dublin(, the Irish Times Theatre Award winning The Nose (Project Arts Centre), JIG (St. Patrick’s Festival), Kiss (Ulster Bank commission for Dublin Theatre Festival), Lizzie Lavelle and the Vanishing of Emlyclough (Belmullet, Co. Mayo), Drive-By (Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival and Canterbury Festival), and Dr. Ledbetter’s Experiment (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Kilkenny Arts Festival) - Irish Times Theatre Awards Best Production nominee. Other work for the company includes The Yokohama Delegation (Kilkenny Arts Festival co-production) which represented Ireland at the Prague Quadrennial Design Exhibition, Paka (Nairobi and Mombassa, Kenya), the multi-award winning Candide, The 7 Deadly Sins, and the Stewart Parker Trust Award nominated The Butterfly Ranch by Tom Swift.

Radio plays for The Performance Corporation and Lyric FM include The Flying Dutchman of Iniskill by Tom Swift (PPI National Award nominated Best Drama 2008) and Haven By Michelle Read. The company has also made a number of short films directed by Jo including; War and Peace, the Musical by Maeve Ingoldsby, and A Life (Galway Film Fleadh, 15 Second Film Festival @ Darklight Festival and Belfast Festival at Queens). TV work includes a Flann O’Brien special for TV3 The 3rd Policeman’s Ball.

Other theatre directing credits include; Beware of the Storybook Wolves (The Ark), Awimbaway, Mary Quirke, Moira, and Dreamframe (Fishamble), Lost Letters of a Victorian Lady (Bewleys Theatre), A Place with the Pigs (Crypt Theatre), Look Back in Anger (City Arts Centre), Frank McGuinness’s Mary and Lizzie (Dublin Theatre Festival), and The Magic Island (Yew Theatre). Readings directed include The Shewing up of Blanco Posnett and Spreading the News (abbeyonehundred/Dublin Theatre Festival), and King of the Castle (Dublin Theatre Festival).

Jo curates The Performance Corporation’s annual SPACE Programme, an international multidisciplinary artists residency at the company’s base in Castletown House, Co. Kildare. She has lectured, given workshops and presented on the company’s work at Trinity College, Queen’s University Belfast and UCD. A graduate of the Samuel Beckett Centre, Jo is a board member of Fishamble, Theatre Forum, Riverbank Arts Centre and The Association of Theatre Directors of Ireland.