ORLA CLOGHER, PUPPETRY
FEN
October 2025
Riverbank Arts Newbridge
Limetree Limerick
Roscommon Arts Centre
Babaro Festival
September 2025
Visual Carlow
An Táin Dundalk
May 2024
Roscommon Arts Centre
Mick Lally Theatre Galway
Riverbank Arts Newbridge
Limetree Limerick
Roscommon Arts Centre
Babaro Festival
September 2025
Visual Carlow
An Táin Dundalk
May 2024
Roscommon Arts Centre
Mick Lally Theatre Galway
Through a spellbinding combination of puppetry, shadow play, choreographed movement, and original music, the show cultivates in young audiences a capacity to perceive beauty, magic, and meaning in the natural world.
Developed in collaboration with pupils from Feevagh N.S. and Ballintleva N.S. in rural Co. Roscommon, Fen uniquely integrates community voices into its storytelling.
The piece was developed and devised over 3 months and presented in the Roscommon Arts Centre and the Mick Lally Theatre in May 2024. The show then went on a national tour visiting 6 more venues in 2025.
Directed and designed by: Orla Clogher
Lighting: Stephen Dodd
Sound and Electronic composition: Lara Gallagher
Viola: Michael Chang
Developed in collaboration with pupils from Feevagh N.S. and Ballintleva N.S. in rural Co. Roscommon, Fen uniquely integrates community voices into its storytelling.
The piece was developed and devised over 3 months and presented in the Roscommon Arts Centre and the Mick Lally Theatre in May 2024. The show then went on a national tour visiting 6 more venues in 2025.
Directed and designed by: Orla Clogher
Lighting: Stephen Dodd
Sound and Electronic composition: Lara Gallagher
Viola: Michael Chang
CHI, EARLY YEARS DANCE
WONDER
WING
December 2024
Project Arts Centre
Dublin
Project Arts Centre
Dublin
18 magical immersive dance theatre performances brought to life by the brave & brilliant children (aged 3 weeks to 16 years) and incredible staff of the Oncology Ward and Heart Centre at Crumlin Children’s Hospital.
This project was supported by Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) Arts.
Directed by: Jess Rowell
Performed by: Mia DiChiaro & Yves Lorrhan
Set & Props: Orla Kelly
Sound Design: Lara Gallagher
Engagment Materials: Sarah lynch
This project was supported by Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) Arts.
Directed by: Jess Rowell
Performed by: Mia DiChiaro & Yves Lorrhan
Set & Props: Orla Kelly
Sound Design: Lara Gallagher
Engagment Materials: Sarah lynch
DUBLIN THEATRE OF THE DEAF, PERFORMANCE
SIGN - SILENT EXP
November 2023
Unit 44 Stoney Batter
Dublin
Unit 44 Stoney Batter
Dublin
A silent concert experience in collaboration with Dublin Theatre of the Deaf and Jane Hackett - an interactive, multi-sensory performance exploring sound from varying auditory perceptions for hearing and Deaf audiences.
Lara was commissioned to write a piece she titled Ex:Tension. Using touch, vibration, found sounds and movement the piece explores sound as a phenomenological entity, a medium of expression and collaboration. Examining a kind of perceptual scene this piece denotes sound as a temporal, sensational and spatial entity, something which presents itself perceptively, metaphysically and epistemologically. Lara performed her piece alongside artists Lucia Kickham, Aoibhinn O’Dea and Alvean Jones combining light, movement and perceived sound to immerse both hearing and non-hearing audiences. The performance took place over a series of iterations at Unit 44 in Dublin in November 2023. Funded by Arts Council Ireland.
Composers: George Higgs, Lara Gallagher, Andy Ingamells
Dancers: Aoibhinn O’ Dea, Lucia Kickham
Performance artists: Lianne Quigley, Alvean Jones
Audio Producer: Adrian Hart
Lighting Design: Jess Fitzsimons Kane
Set design: Lara Gallagher
Intepreters: Caoimhe Colburn Gray, Elzbieta Cichoka, Bernadette Ferguson.
Lara was commissioned to write a piece she titled Ex:Tension. Using touch, vibration, found sounds and movement the piece explores sound as a phenomenological entity, a medium of expression and collaboration. Examining a kind of perceptual scene this piece denotes sound as a temporal, sensational and spatial entity, something which presents itself perceptively, metaphysically and epistemologically. Lara performed her piece alongside artists Lucia Kickham, Aoibhinn O’Dea and Alvean Jones combining light, movement and perceived sound to immerse both hearing and non-hearing audiences. The performance took place over a series of iterations at Unit 44 in Dublin in November 2023. Funded by Arts Council Ireland.
Composers: George Higgs, Lara Gallagher, Andy Ingamells
Dancers: Aoibhinn O’ Dea, Lucia Kickham
Performance artists: Lianne Quigley, Alvean Jones
Audio Producer: Adrian Hart
Lighting Design: Jess Fitzsimons Kane
Set design: Lara Gallagher
Intepreters: Caoimhe Colburn Gray, Elzbieta Cichoka, Bernadette Ferguson.
SHANGHAI AKADEMY, PUBLIC ARTS
PACC
November 2023
Shanghai
China
Shanghai
China
Lara was invited by the Public Arts Coordination Centre in Shanghai to partake in a 2 week long residency with 5 other international artists - Community of Co-existence held by Shanghai Akademy of Fine Art
(SAFA) Shanghai Public Art Coordinaiton Center (PACC) and Shanghai University
(SHU). The program sought to proritise cultural exchange, public arts engagement and community.
The residency provided time and space in support of creative research and artistic experimentation, with an emphasis on the relationship between art, ecology and society.
Whilst there, Lara facilitated a sound walk for local residents with Mariano Carvalho (Argentina) through Lingyannanlu Road in Dong Ming in Shanghai. The walk allowed participants the chance to record sounds and present them at a public installation, heightening sonic awareness and illuminating the sonic complexities of the area.
Finally, a set of public installations designed by each artist will be realised in the coming months in the Dong Ming community.
The residency provided time and space in support of creative research and artistic experimentation, with an emphasis on the relationship between art, ecology and society.
Whilst there, Lara facilitated a sound walk for local residents with Mariano Carvalho (Argentina) through Lingyannanlu Road in Dong Ming in Shanghai. The walk allowed participants the chance to record sounds and present them at a public installation, heightening sonic awareness and illuminating the sonic complexities of the area.
Finally, a set of public installations designed by each artist will be realised in the coming months in the Dong Ming community.
SUPERPAUA, EARLY YEARS THEATRE
SUPERPAUA COLLAB
September 2020-23
Rua Red
Dublin
Rua Red
Dublin
A consistent collaboration of Lara’s is alongside Superpaua an Irish community based, artist-led theatre company that makes work for all ages in a variety of languages, places, and forms. Lara was responsible for the sound design and composition on a series of multilingual podcasts entitled SuperPaua Stories and other educational theatre projects Knapsack and Whodunnit? (Dublin Fringe 2022).
All details of current and future collaborations here:
https://superpaua.org/.
All details of current and future collaborations here:
https://superpaua.org/.
© Lara Gallagher