Mónica Muñoz
Artistic Director
Mónica Muñoz is a dancer, performance-maker, and educator originally from Barcelona and based in Dublin since 2014. She is interested in making exciting new performances for early years and young audiences. Recent productions include FLiP, FALL and FLOAT and the Irish tour of UP-CLOSE, commissioned and presented at Tipperary Dance International Festival, Ireland (2021). Previous work includes the acclaimed Princesses Can Be Pirates, funded by Business to Arts that toured Nationally and Internationally with support from The Irish Arts Council and Culture Ireland.
Mónica is currently a participant of Meitheal, a dynamic support initiative for artists creating work for young audiences across the performing arts disciplines led by Branar. She was The Ark’s John Coolahan Early Years Artist in Residence 2021/22 and a recent GROW Pathways to Production Participant, an initiative from Baboró International Children's Festival in partnership with Druid, the Mick Lally Theatre, Branar Téatar do Phaistí, The Irish Theatre Institute (ITI) and Galway Theatre Festival.
Michelle Cahill
Producer
Michelle Cahill is a freelance producer based in Dublin working with a range of artists making contemporary performances. She is passionate about collaborating across all genres to realise artistic ideas. In the last 8+ years she has produced new works for independent artists at some of Ireland’s major festivals and venues and supported work that has toured to the UK and Europe. Michelle was a participant of Branar’s Meitheal Programme in 2023 that supported artists and producers marking work for children and young audiences. She is was selected to join Theatre Forum’s Producer Working Group on 2023
She has also worked with a range of arts organisations; she was assistant producer, then producer with Tipperary Dance International Festival (2019-2021); Participant Producer for Dance Ireland’s Cruinniú na nÓg programme (2021) and Programme Co-ordinator at Shawbrook (2014-2021). In 2023, she took on the administration of Gap Day, a support programme for freelance artists in association with Mermaid Arts Centre. She trained as a professional dancer and choreographer, and she brings 20+ years’ experience across performance, community dance engagement and dance education to her practice.