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The CraicFest, the long running New York Irish film and music festival will present (in association with New York Irish Center) Queer Ireland, a conversation on how Ireland has inspired our panelists on their LBGTQ journey on June 12 at the New York Irish Center in Long Island City, Queens.
On Sunday June 13 at 3pm, Origin Theatre Company will present the 8th annual edition of its popular immersive Bloomsday celebration, renamed the Bloomsday Revel. Co-produced with Blooms Tavern, which, once again, hosts the live event at its two-level Midtown home at 208 East 58th Street, the distance-safe, in-person staging mixes a juried costume contest and dramatic readings from Ulysses performed by a cast of celebrated New York-based Irish actors including Terry Donnelly, Fiona Walsh, Una Clancy, Ed Malone, Aidan Redmond, Fiona Walsh, Gina Costigan, and Sarah Street. Musical interludes are performed by the Irish folk-rock troubadour, Alan Gogarty.
A limited amount of in-person tickets for the Bloomsday Revel are now on sale. Included in the $45 ticket price are Bloomsday-inspired passed hors d oeuvres and an open bar from 3pm to 6pm. For tickets visit www.origintheatre.org
Left to right: Angela Phelan, Brian Kennedy and Liz O Donnell.
Left to right: Angela Phelan, Brian Kennedy and Liz O Donnell. By Irish America Staff
The New York dinner for the International Breast Cancer Foundation for Ireland was held at the Metropolitan Club in New York on April 25. The foundation sponsors post-graduate specialist studies for Irish doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York. Funds from the dinner will also refurbish a family room at the national radiation center. St. Luke’s Hospital in Rathgar, Dublin. ♦
Start spreading the news : Cork man s exciting role in New York
Michael Mellamphy with Matthew Broderick and Colin McPhillamy in The Seafarer Michael has been appointed artistic director of Origin Theatre in New York
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A HOLLYHILL native has made his American dream a reality after being appointed artistic director of a prestigious New York theatre company.
Michael Mellamphy replaces Limerick man George C Heslin in the Origin Theatre role following his departure for a new role with the New York Irish Centre.
The Cork actor co-curated this year’s ‘Origin 1st Irish Theatre Festival’ in New York alongside fellow northsider Sarah Street from Blarney Road.