Abbey Theatre announces new Artistic and Executive Directors
Updated / Tuesday, 23 Feb 2021
15:13
Caitríona McLaughlin has been announced as the new Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre
The Board of the Abbey Theatre today announced the appointment of Caitríona McLaughlin as its new Artistic Director and Mark O Brien as its new Executive Director.
Caitríona McLaughlin is an award-winning theatre director, and an Associate Director at the Abbey since 2017. Recent productions at the Abbey include an outdoor production of
The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh, staged at the Irish Museum of Modern Art,
Citysong by Dylan Coburn Gray and an acclaimed revival of
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Principal Investigator
CHRISTINE FERGUSON is a Professor in English Literature at the University of Stirling, where her research focuses on the entwined histories of the literary gothic and the British occult revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Her publications include the books Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity, and Racial Regeneration in Angl0-American Spiritualist Writing 1848-1930 (2012) and Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (2006); she is the editor of Spiritualism, Health, Race, and Human Variation (2014), a volume in Routledge’s Spiritualism 1840-1930 facsimile edition series, and, with Andrew Radford, The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (forthcoming 2018). She is currently at work on a new project on the popular fiction networks and periodical culture of the Victorian occult revival.