Susanne Bach
Susanne Bach graduated from University College Dublin (UCD) with a Master’s Degree in Film Studies. She lectures in German and Irish cinema and has been the Associate Director for Tisch in Dublin since 2001. Previously, Bach was a supervisor in the animation industry and worked in film and documentary production. She also worked at the Centre for Film Studies at UCD.
Paul Fitzgerald
Paul Fitzgerald is a filmmaker from Dublin and has been teaching the M.A. Film at the Dublin Institute of Technology and Music Video at Tisch for the last eight years. He codirectied and edited the feature documentary This Thing Happened (Vertigo Films/TG4/Irish Film Board). He founded Clingfilms, a unique partnership with a reputation for producing innovative films and music videos that has won 60 international awards.
Tommy Graham
Tommy Graham, who has lectured at Tisch Dublin since spring 2001, graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, with honors in history and continued his postgraduate studies there on the Dublin United Irishmen of the 1790s. Since 1993, he has edited the bi-monthly illustrated magazine History Ireland. He is also founder and director of Historical Insights Ireland Ltd., a research, consultancy, and tourist business. Since 2007, he has presented Talking History, a live history radio show on Newstalk 106-108 fm. His latest project, which kicked off at the 2010 Electric Picnic, is the History Ireland Hedge School, a series of live (and lively) round table discussions with leading academics and public figures.
Barbara Henkes
Barbara Henkes has a background in fine arts and photography and is currently the manager of the equipment department in Filmbase Ltd., a resource center for independent film in Dublin. She is a certified Apple Final Cut Pro trainer and has been teaching FCP classes since October 2008.
Sara Keating
Sara Keating recently completed a Ph.D. on 20th-century Irish drama at Trinity College, Dublin. She writes about theatre for various national publications, including the Irish Times, the Sunday Business Post, and Irish Theatre Magazine. She has published essays on Tom Murphy, Martin McDonagh, and Samuel Beckett, among others, in various academic volumes.
Stephanie McBride
Stephanie McBride is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of London. She was a member of the creative editorial team for BBC’s 4-part series, “Elements of Irish Art” (2003). As a columnist with Circa Art magazine, she has written widely on Irish film and visual culture. Her “Intermedia” column appeared in the Irish Times. As Chairman of the Board of the Gallery of Photography, she curated and published contemporary Irish photography. Recent publications include Ireland into Film: Felicia’s Journey (2007) and articles in academic journals. Her writing on art and photography appeared in the Irish Arts Review.
Colin McKeown
Colin McKeown is a
BAFTA winning filmmaker from Co. Armagh. He has been involved in
producing over 30 short films and four feature films including THE HONEYMOONERS
and THE SECRET LIFE OF WORDS. He produced the first network
television drama series from Northern Ireland: BEL’S BOYS. He is also the
programme director for Cinema North West; an exhibition and residential
training facility that also operates a 100 seat mobile cinema in the North west
of Ireland.
Sarah Jane Scaife
Sarah Jane Scaife received her M.Phil. in Irish film and theatre from Trinity College, Dublin. She has been an actor, director, and scholar of theatre for over 20 years. She specializes in the visual and physical approach to theatre, specifically in relation to the works of Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats, and Marina Carr. She has directed Beckett’s plays in Europe and many countries in Asia.
Michael West
Michael West, award winning playwright, has written for over 20 productions in theatre, opera and dance. For The Corn Exchange, the acclaimed Dublin-based company, his most recent plays include Freefall, Dublin By Lamplight and Man of Valour. He has also translated or adapted many texts, and his version of Death and the Ploughman has been produced by SITI Theater Company, directed by Anne Bogart.
