{"id":4673,"date":"2015-06-16T07:04:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T11:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4673"},"modified":"2015-06-16T07:06:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T11:06:50","slug":"irene-kelleher-about-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4673","title":{"rendered":"Irene Kelleher: About the Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=4651\" target=\"_blank\">listen to her interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4645\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Kelleher-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"Kelleher\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Kelleher.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Kelleher.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Kelleher.jpg?resize=24%2C24&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Kelleher.jpg?resize=36%2C36&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Kelleher.jpg?resize=48%2C48&amp;ssl=1 48w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Kelleher.jpg?resize=64%2C64&amp;ssl=1 64w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Kelleher.jpg?resize=50%2C50&amp;ssl=1 50w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Kelleher.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Kelleher.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4671\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/imgres2-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"imgres\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/imgres2.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/imgres2.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/imgres2.jpg?resize=24%2C24&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/imgres2.jpg?resize=36%2C36&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/imgres2.jpg?resize=48%2C48&amp;ssl=1 48w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/imgres2.jpg?resize=64%2C64&amp;ssl=1 64w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/imgres2.jpg?resize=50%2C50&amp;ssl=1 50w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/imgres2.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>IRENE <span class=\"il\">KELLEHER<\/span> trained with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeare.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shakespeare and Company<\/a> in Lenox, Massachusetts and Drama&amp; Theatre Studies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.music.ucc.ie\/drama\/\" target=\"_blank\">University County Cork<\/a> where she received a first class honours degree and Masters, specialising in Advance Performance Practice. She has just completed a successful run with &#8216;The Turn of the Screw&#8217; in <a href=\"http:\/\/smockalley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smock Alley Theatre<\/a>, November 2014. She was awarded The Mace Actor of the Year Award in 2011 for her portrayal of Runt in &#8216;Disco Pigs&#8217; and won many acting awards at her time spent with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kilmeendramagroup.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kilmeen Drama Group<\/a>. (Pegeen- Playboy of the Western World and Betty-A Whistle in the Dark). Irene&#8217;s performance as Maria in &#8216;Stars in the Morning Sky&#8217; in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belgrade.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Belgrade Theatre<\/a>, directed by Hamish Glen, was her UK debut in 2012. More recently she played a lead role in &#8216;Desolate Heaven&#8217; at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everymantheatre.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Everyman Theatre<\/a>, acting alongside well known Irish actress, Mary McEvoy. \u00a0She is currently touring with Ian Wild&#8217;s one woman show &#8216;Mrs Shakespeare&#8217; which performed off Broadway this October at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherrylanetheatre.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Cherry\u00a0Lane Theatre<\/a>, NYC and Stratford Upon Avon at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebearpit.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bear Pit Theatre<\/a> -February 2015.<br \/>\nOTHER THEATRE CREDITS INCLUDE: Lovers, The Collector, Pied a Terre, Lipstick, The Maids, Hollander (Cork Midsummer Festival 2009), Our Day Out, A Woman Alone, Much Ado about Nothing, Shakers Restirred and The Glass Menagerie.<br \/>\nFILM &amp; TV CREDITS INCLUDE: Game of Thrones (HBO) , Reign (CBS), Fair City (RTE) Outside the Box (Irene wrote and played the lead in this short that won &#8216;Best Irish Short Film&#8217; Fastnet Film Festival, 2013) Hatch, Spellbound, The Trouble with Aoibhe, The Gingerbread Men and Dead Dogs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to listen to her interview. \u00a0 IRENE KELLEHER trained with Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts and Drama&amp; Theatre Studies University County Cork where she received a first class honours degree and Masters, specialising in Advance Performance Practice. 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