Deaf Republic Tickets

A gunshot in occupied territory. A deaf boy is killed for disobeying orders he couldn’t hear. The next day, the whole town wakes up deaf.

Who is in the cast of Deaf Republic?

Starring Romel Belcher, Leo Bill, Caoimhe Coburn Gray, Derbhle Crotty, Kate Finegan, Eoin Gleeson and Lisa Kelly

More about the cast

Romel Belcher
Theatre includes: FAME Visual (spelled “Visual” instead of “Musical” to align with Deaf Theatre), Knockout, A Doll’s House, The Sense Experiment.
Television includes: Melodifestivalen, Sexy Hands, When the World Collides.

Leo Bill
For the Royal Court: Posh (& West End).
Other theatre includes: Women, Beware Devil, The Duchess of Malfi, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Almeida); Mephisto, Dear Elizabeth (Gate); Curtains (Rose, Kingston); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Glass Menagerie (Young Vic); Hamlet, School for Scandal (Barbican); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, A Women Killed With Kindness, Pains of Youth, The Observer, The Hothouse, The Reporter (National); Secret Theatre (Lyric Hammersmith); The Silence of the Sea (Donmar Warehouse); The Way of the World (Sheffield Crucible Theatre); Beautiful Thing (Sound Theatre); Macbeth (RSC).
Film includes: Brides, The Thing With Feathers, Flux Gourmet, Rare Beasts, In Fabric, Peterloo, Hamlet, Alice In Wonderland – Through The Looking Glass, Mr Turner, A Long Way Down, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Alice in Wonderland, Me and Orson Welles, Becoming Jane, The Living and the Dead, Kinky Boots, These Foolish Things, The Fall, Vera Drake, LD50, Two Men Went To War, 28 Days Later, All Or Nothing, Gosford Park.
Television includes: Foundation, Funny Woman, Becoming Elizabeth, Hitmen, The Long Song, The Strike Series – The Cuckoos Calling, Taboo, The White Queen, Pramface, The Borgias, Words of Captain Scott, Dr Who – A Christmas Carol, Home Time, Ashes to Ashes, Lead Balloon, Sense & Sensibility, Jekyll, Bash, A Very Social Secretary, Silent Witness, Messiah III, Eroica, Canterbury Tales – Man of Law, Spooks 2, Midsomer Murders – A Tale of Two Hamlets, Harry Enfield’s Celeb, Surrealismo, Attachments II, Crime and Punishment.

Caoimhe Coburn Gray (she/her)
Theatre includes: To Be A Machine 2.0 (Dead Centre); Two Hundred Deer to Every Lion (bluehouse theatre); The Race (The Ark); Absent The Wrong (Once Off Productions); Horse Ape Bird (The Irish National Opera); Love+ (Malaprop Australian Tour).
Television includes: Conversations With Friends, Valhalla, Flicker.

Derbhle Crotty
For the Royal Court: The Alice Trilogy, The Weir, Portia Coughlan (& Abbey).
Other theatre includes: The Brightening Air (Old Vic); Playboy Of The Western World, Summerfolk, The Merchant Of Venice (National); Hecuba, I’ll Be The Devil, Macbeth, Macbett, Hamlet (& West End), Little Eyolf (RSC); The Beauty Queen Of Leenane (Young Vic) Richard III (Headlong) The Events, Crave/Illusions (Actor’s Touring Company); An Ideal Husband, The Three Sisters, Sive (& Druid), The Dead, Marble, The Great Hunger, Anna Karenina, The Well Of Saints, The Mai, Katie Roche, Bailegangaire (Abbey); The Cherry Orchard, DruidShakespeare, The Silver Tassie, The Good Father, The Gigli Concert (Druid); The Approach (Landmark); Afterplay, Juno And The Paycock, The Home Place, Dancing At Lughnasa (Gate Theatre, Dublin); The Seagull, Everyday, Dubliners (Corn Exchange).
Television includes: Mayfair Witches, Small Town-Big Story, Vanishing Triangle, Come Home, Hidden Assets, Paula.
Film includes: To The Lighthouse, Mandrake, The Bright Side, Rosie, Citizen Lane, Noble, Stella Days, Joy, Notes On A Scandal, The Merchant Of Venice, Whalefall, Earmark.

Kate Finegan (she/her)
Theatre includes: Dream Factory (Dublin Theatre Festival/Lords of Strut), Haus of Fash
Hun (Dublin Fringe Festival/FemmeBizarre), The Wakefires (ANU Productions).
Television includes: The Walsh Sisters (BBC/RTÉ), Northern Lights (TG4), Fair City (RTÉ), Ros na Rún (TG4), Klondike (Netflix).
Film includes: Babaí Brain (Fíbín Films), Tarrac (Cine4), Joyride (Embankment Films)
Writing includes: Gammy (debut play); Dolly (in development); Venous Returns (short film, Belfast International Arts Festival 2023).
Awards include: Next Generation Artists Award (Arts Council of Ireland, 2019).
Other: Associate Artist with THISISPOPBABY (current), fluent Irish speaker, professional aerialist.

Eoin Gleeson (he/him)
Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Turbine theatre), FLYNN (Abbey).
Television includes: The Woman in the Wall, The Tourist.

Lisa Kelly
Theatre includes: My Mother Said I Never Should (Fingersmiths).
Film includes: I See A Voice, Reverberations Reload, Diagnonsense, Pole, Reverberations.
Television includes: Eastenders.
As director, theatre includes: Nowhere To Escape (Deafinitely Theatre).
As associate director, theatre includes: The Promise (Deafinitely Theatre).

Who are the creative team of Deaf Republic?

Written and directed by Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd.
Co-writing by Zoë McWhinney.

Set design by Jeremy Herbert, with costume design by Mae Leahy and lighting design by Azusa Ono. Sound design and composition by Kevin Gleeson. Video direction by Grant Gee. Puppetry consultation from Cillian O Donnachadha and aerial consultation by Kat Cooley. Assistant direction by Liam Rees.

Dramaturgy by Lydia Gratis for Dead Centre, Jess Latowicki for Royal Court Theatre, and Gillian Greer as Senior Dramaturg for Royal Court Theatre.

Production management by Gavin Kennedy, with video technician Mike Dunne. Company management by Mica Taylor (she/her), stage management by Sibéal Ní Mhaoileoin, and Ross Smith as Assistant Stage Manager.

Produced by Tilly Taylor (Dead Centre Company Producer), with Lianne Quigley as Associate Producer (Dead Centre).
Lead producer is Hannah Lyall, and executive producer is Steven Atkinson.