Dublin, Ireland
Aedin Cosgrove
Born 1966, Cork, Ireland
1989 B.A., Drama and History of Art, Trinity College
2000 M.S., Multimedia Systems, Trinity College
Gavin Quinn
Born 1969, Dublin, Ireland
1991 B.A, Drama and Classics, Trinity College
I began making theatre when I was five years old in the back garden of the house, where I grew up in Dublin. My first works involved choreographing my sisters to the relevant pop music of the time. Circa 1974.
I suppose even then I wanted to be a boy/man of my time. To be simply concerned with breathing in and out and attend the task of making theatre performances that I am engaged in, without being lascivious nor affected nor posing for the audience.
For the past fifteen years I have mainly collaborated with the designer, Aedin Cosgrove under the working name of Pan Pan.
The theatre that Pan Pan creates is of a contemporary attitude with a lot of personal feelings attached.
Pan Pan is willing to use any language of the theatre to express an intended meaning. Conventions, attitudes and barriers that are both psychological and physical are always limiting performance. Pan Pan tries to approach theatre as an open form of expression. Pan Pan has developed an individual aesthetic that has simply grown from making performances in a host of different situations and conditions.
We work on the exploration of new forms, new approaches and experiments with time, space, music and performance. Our objective has always been to be idiosyncratic, to find the individual step.
There are primary characteristics to our work: authenticity of the performer, humility of purpose, the world as a place of chaos and disorder full of oppositions, conflicts and complexities of existence.
-Gavin Quinn
2006 Oedipus Loves You, written by Simon Doyle and Gavin Quinn. Directed by Gavin Quinn. Set Design by Andrew Clancy. Lighting by Aedin Cosgrove. Costumes by Helen McCusker. Performed at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, Ireland. High Performance Rodeo, Calgary, Alberta. Lethbridge University, Lethbridge, Alberta. Timms Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta. Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta. Multi-Mois, Quebec City, Quebec. F.F.T, Dusseldorf, Germany. Auwerlein Festival, Berne, Germany. The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland
2005 One-Healing with Theatre. Performance, Film and Photography publication, involving 100 actors. Created by Gavin Quinn. Design, Andrew Clancy and Aedin Cosgrove. The Digital Hub, Dublin, Ireland
2000 Standoffish. Written and Directed by Gavin Quinn. Designed by Aedin Cosgrove. City Arts Centre, Dublin. Lyons Arts Centre, Adelaide. Voyages des Comedians, Festival, Loire Valley, France.
1997 - 2003 The Dublin International Theatre Symposium. An annual festival of contemporary performance, curated by Aedin Cosgrove and Gavin Quinn. Five editions in total. Dublin, Ireland.
1995 A Bronze Twist of Your Serpent Muscles. Written by Gavin Quinn and designed by Aedin Cosgrove. City Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland.
1991 Negative Act. Written by Gavin Quinn and designed by Aedin Cosgrove. Lombard Street Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
2006 Awarded the Irish Times Special Jury Award for The Playboy of The Western World (performed in Chinese, with an all Chinese cast). First performed at the Pioneer Theatre, Beijing, China
2004 MAC-BETH 7 nominated for the Irish Times Best Production. Performed at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
2000 Standoffish awarded Advertiser Newspaper's Best Production of the Festival. Adelaide, Australia
1995 A Bronze Twist of Your Serpent Muscles awarded Best Overall Production at the First Dublin Fringe Festival. Dublin, UK
