LARA GALLAGHER

SOUND ARTIST



LARA GALLAGHER

SOUND ARTIST










BREADLINE, THEATRE

BLEEDIN’ OWN


December 2024
Project Arts Centre
Dublin



  Everyone’s saying Dublin is Dead. That Anna Liffey finally choked on her diet of aparthotels, luxury student accommodation and oat iced flat whites, before drowning herself in the fountain we dumped her in. Well, everyone is WRONG, Helen!

It's Always Your Bleedin' Own by Breadline Theatre
2 - 14 December 2024 Project Arts

Directed by: Ronan Phelan
Designed by: Ellen Kirk
Lighting:
Eoin Byrne
Sound Design: Lara Gallagher 


Photo credit Ste Kavanagh

TASTE IN YOUR MOUTH, THEATRE

YOU’RE NEEDY


Dublin Fringe 2023 
Edinburgh Fringe 2024
Gothenberg Fringe 2024



    You’re Needy, (Sounds Frustrating) is a unique off-site experience for one actor and one audience member set in the bathroom of a real house. It was nominated for Best Production and First Fortnight Award at Dublin Fringe Festival and is currently running at Summerhall in Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

‘The whole effect is eerie, claustrophobic and though-provoking assisted by excellent light set and sound design’ The Journal of Music

**** - The Irish Times

Created by: tasteinyourmouth
Directed by: Grace Morgan
Design: Freja Gillespie
Lighting: Sophie Cassidy
Sound and composition: Lara Gallagher.
Performed by: Laoise Murray








CAROLINE BYRNE, THEATRE

DANCING AT LUGHNASA


July 2024 
The Gate Theatre
Dublin



    Dancing at Lughnasa written by Brian Friel and directed by Caroline Byrne opened at the Gate theatre in July 2024In the warmth of the Donegal harvest of 1936, the five Mundy sisters, Kate, Maggie, Rose, Agnes and Chris, love, survive, fight, and dance. Lara was awarded the Assistant Sound Design role through ISPD’s associate design programme.

Directed by: Caroline Byrne
Designed by: Chiara Mangold
Lighting:
Paul Keogan
Sound Design: Sinéad Diskin 
Associate Sound Design: Lara Gallagher


Photo credit Ros Kavanagh

ORLA CLOGHER, THEATRE

FEN


May 2024
Roscommon Arts Centre
Mick Lally Theatre Galway



    FEN is a children’s puppetry piece following FEN, a fox and a curlew navigating their changing habitat. The piece was developed and devised over 3 months and presented in the Roscommon Arts Centre and the Mick Lally Theatre in May 2024.

Directed and designed by: Orla Clogher
Performed by: Emma Martin and Cillian O Donnachadha
Lighting:
Stephen Dodd
Sound and Electronic composition: Lara Gallagher
Viola: Michael Chang







DAVEY KELLEHER, THEATRE

ABSOLUTE HELL


November 2023
The Lir Academy
Dublin



    Absolute Hell written by Rodney Ackland is a poignant and visceral exploration depicting a society in flux,
struggling to redefine itself amidst
the debris of war. 
    Performed at the Lir Academy November 2023.

Directed by: Davey Kelleher
Set Design: Ronan Duffy
Costume Design: Chrysi Chatzivasileiou
Lighting:
Zia Bergin
Sound and composition: Lara Gallagher.







WAYNE JORDAN, THEATRE

UNTITLED



June 2023
The Lir Academy
Dublin


    Regina wants to make a performance that can stop time. ‘A spectacular anti-spectacle, a chaotic, darkly comic celebration of theatre - How do we do it? Where does it come from? And why?’
    Untitled is a newly devised work created by the company, designers and director in five weeks.

Director: Wayne Jordan
Set/Costume Designer: Sarah Foley
Lighting Designer: Eoin Winning
Sound Designer: Lara Gallagher


TASTE IN YOUR MOUTH, THEATRE

AFTER YOUR ASS



April 2022 
Yamamori Tengu
Dublin




    Developed with the support of an Arts Council Project Award and a Work in Progress as part of Corcadorca’s SHOW, After Your Ass is an offsite piece deconstructing the work of Valerie Solanis, responding to her work Up Your Ass (which Andy Warhol is responsible for losing).

Created by: tasteinyourmouth
Directed by: Grace Morgan
Design: Choy-Ping Clarke-Ng
Lighting: Sophie Cassidy
Sound and composition: Lara Gallagher.
Performed by: Cian Malin, Laoise Murray and Lara Gallagher




SUPERPAUA, COMMUNITY THEATRE

SUPERPAUA COLLAB


September 2020-23 
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/.




CORN EXCHANGE, THEATRE

DUBLINERS



June 2022
Smock Alley Theatre
Dublin



    “Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.” – The Dead

    The Corn Exchange and Smock Alley Theatre presented Dubliners by James Joyce, an opportunity to experience as part of the Bloomsday Festival 2022. Dubliners offered an enduring portrayal of the city – a mirror in which the people of Dublin, as Joyce once wrote, could take “one good look at themselves”. The stories, sharply ironic, beautiful, despairing and mysterious cohere into what Joyce called “a chapter of the moral history of my country”. Sound and original score by Lara Gallagher.

Directed by: Annie Ryan
Design: Sarah Bacon
Lighting: Eoin Whinning
Costume: Sarah Foley
Composition: Lara Gallagher.





LIVIN’ DRED, THEATRE

THE WHISPERING CHAIR




November 2022
Cavan County Museum
Cavan



    The Whispering Chair by Tara Maria Lovett tells the story of Aggie and Hugh torn by the dark family history of the War of Independence. The play was produced by livin’ dred and had its first iteration of performances in the Cavan County Museum in November 2022.
    Generously supported by Cavan arts office, Arts council Ireland, Creative Ireland and Cavan County Council.

Directed by: Bryan Burroughs
Design: Ronan Duffy
Composition: Lara Gallagher
Performed by: Catriona Williams and Naoise Dunbar



IMMERSIVE LDN, THEATRE

WOLF OF WALL STREET


July 2019-Mar 2020
Sun Street, West End
London


    From the Olivier Award winning producers of The Great Gatsby, London’s longest running immersive theatre production, The Wolf of Wall Street opened in Liverpool Street in 2019. This design involved installing a 35 speaker system on a Dante Network and creating and designing the sound for every section in the show. 

Directed by: Alexander Wright
Set Design: Ciaran Bagnall
Lighting: Rachel Sampley
Co-sound Design: Lara Gallagher and Phil Grainger




YOUNG CURATORS, THEATRE

WHERE ARE YOU FROM?




August 2019
Peacock Theatre,
Dublin



    Peacock Stage, Abbey Theatre, Dublin as part of Young Curators Festival and remounted at Dublin Theatre Festival's Tent, Electric Picnic Festival, 2019.
    ‘Where are you from? is a common question, but its connotations and answers are often complicated. Through confession, movement and interviews with their father, Choy-Ping Clarke-Ng 吳彩萍 explores this, as someone who speaks only English, likes to dance and is looking for home.’

"The production fizzes with talent… the stage thrillingly transforms from a neatly mysterious apartment into a wild and sometimes inhospitable nightlife.”
- Chris McCormack, Musings In Intermissions

Co-Director: Grace Morgan
Performed/Created by: Choy-Ping Clarke-Ng 吳彩萍 and Chi Wai Ng 吳子威
Lighting: Ferdy Emmet
Sound Design: Lara Gallagher



SUGARGLASS, THEATRE

OUTLYING ISLANDS




August 2017
Samuel Beckett Theatre,
Dublin

    SugarGlass Theatre presented Outlying Islands by David Grieg and directed by Marc Atkinson in the Samuel Beckett Theatre. Lara performed the music alongside cellist Lester St. Louis for the duration of the run in the Samuel Beckett Theatre.


    ‘Musicians Lester St. Louis and Lara Gallagher are the play’s secret weapons, emitting music that heightens the most intense moments of the play to dramatic highs and bringing the island setting to life‘ Amyrose Forder 

Directed by: Marc Atkinson
Lighting and Set: Colm McNally
Music: Lester St. Louis, Lara Gallagher, Eoghan Quinn




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