U.S. PREMIERE 
JANUARY 7–NOVEMBER 18, 2026

Creator / Director: Brokentalkers 
Written by: Feidlim Cannon, Gary Keegan, Danny O’Mahony
Performed by: Danny O’Mahony, Gary Keegan/Feidlim Cannon,
Emily Kilkenny Roddy
(From January 10, Feidlim Cannon will be stepping in for Gary Keegan.)
Movement Director: Eddie Kay
Set Design: Sabine Dargent
Lighting Design: Sarah Jane Shiels
Costume Design: Sarah Foley
Sound Design and Composition: Valgeir Sigurðsson
Dramaturg: Bjarni Jonsson
Mask Design and Construction: Ger Clancy
Creative Producer: Rachel Bergin
Production Manager: Gavin Kennedy
Stage Manager: Grace Donnery
Set Design: Sabine Dargent

U.S. PRODUCTION CREDITS

Audio Engineer: Santiago Leon
Head Wardrobe: Kathe Mull
Carpenters: Raymond Huth, Michael Harbeck, Kiel Fuller, Johncarlo Zani
Electricians: Peter Lopez, Sarazina Stein, Emily LaRochelle

Bellow is funded by Culture Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland. Co-Produced by The Everyman, Droichead Arts Centre, Mermaid Arts Centre, and Town Hall Theatre, Galway. Supported by Dublin Theatre Festival's Futures Award. 

Presented in partnership with Under the Radar Festival®
Mark Russell, Founding Director
Meropi Peponides & Kaneza Schaal, Co-Directors
ArKtype, Festival Producer
More information at utrfest.org

About Danny O'Mahony

Danny O’Mahony is a traditional musician from Ballyduff in North County Kerry. He grew up playing music with the older generation of musicians in his locality. His late father Mick had a positive influence on Danny as a young child and nurtured his keen ear and interest in traditional Irish music. Both imaginative and fearless in his interpretation, Danny’s musical style is expressive and deeply personal, and reflects his affinity with the music of past masters. 

His performance abilities have been acknowledged through winning junior and senior All-Ireland titles and graduating from the University of Limerick with a master's in performance. In 2013, Danny was awarded Top Button Accordionist by the Irish Music Association in America. 

2011 saw the release of Danny’s long-awaited and critically acclaimed debut solo recording In Retrospect, accompanied by Patsy Broderick on piano, Cyril O’Donoghue on bouzouki, and Johnny ‘Ringo’ McDonagh on percussion. 

He collaborated with concertina maestro Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh in 2012 and they released their duet album, As it Happened. This features Danny and Mícheál playing unaccompanied in the comfort of Mícheál’s kitchen. As it Happened was awarded instrumental album of the year by LiveIreland Music Awards. 

About BROKENTALKERS

Brokentalkers are a multi-award-winning Dublin-based theatre company, led by co-artistic directors Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keegan with creative producer Rachel Bergin. Brokentalkers was founded in 2001 by Cannon and Keegan after graduating from De Montfort University in Leicester. For over two decades, Brokentalkers have been making formally ambitious work that defies categorization and have built a reputation both at home and internationally as one of Ireland's most innovative and original theatre companies. 

Their working method is founded on a collaborative process that draws on the skills and experiences of a large and diverse group of contributors from different disciplines and backgrounds. Some are professional artists, performers, designers, and writers, and others are people who do not usually work in the theatre but who bring an authenticity to the work that is compelling. 

They make work that responds to the contemporary world, using elements such as original writing, dance, classic texts, film, interviews, found materials, and music to represent that world in performance. 

Their notable work includes: Everything Falls (Project Arts Centre, Town Hall Theatre), Bellow (Project Arts Centre, Droichead Arts Centre and The Everyman, 2024) Manifest (Project Arts Centre, 2023) The Boy Who Never Was (Dublin Theatre Festival 2022), MASTERCLASS (Winner: The Scotsman Fringe First Award 2022, premiered at Project Arts Centre as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2021), The Examination (Premiered at Project Arts Centre 2019, followed by a run in both Edinburgh and Dublin Fringe Festival 2019; winner of Best Production and Best Soundscape Irish Times Theatre Awards 2020, winner of Best Production and Best Performer, Dublin Fringe Festival 2019), Woman Undone (Premiered at Project Arts Centre and Mermaid Arts Centre 2018, followed by national our 2019 and 2020), The Circus Animals’ Desertion (Dublin Theatre Festival 2016), This Beach (Munich Kammerspiele, Dublin Fringe Festival 2016, followed by national tour 2017), Have I No Mouth (Dublin Fringe Festival 2012, followed by national and international tour; winner of Total Theatre Award, Edinburgh 2013) and The Blue Boy (Grand Prix winner, Kontakt Festival, Torun, Poland, 2014). 

As well as touring their work regularly throughout Ireland, Brokentalkers have presented their work in Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, New Zealand, and the USA. 

Their work has been performed at prestigious venues and festivals, including Sydney Opera House, Théâtre de la Ville, Festival de Liège, The Malthouse, Irish Arts Center, Brighton Festival, and Southbank Center. 

About Irish Arts Center

Founded in 1972 and based in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City, Irish Arts Center is a home for artists and audiences of all backgrounds who share a passion or appreciation for the evolving arts and culture of contemporary Ireland and Irish America. We present, develop, and celebrate work from established and emerging artists and cultural practitioners, providing audiences with emotionally and intellectually engaging experiences in an environment of Irish hospitality. Steeped in grassroots traditions, we also provide community education programs and access to the arts for people of all ages and ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds. In a historic partnership of the people of Ireland and New York, Irish Arts Center recently completed construction on a state-of-the-art new facility to support this mission for the 21st century, and has begun work on the project’s second phase, the redevelopment of our adjacent original 51st Street building.

Actors' Equity Association 

The U.S. stage managers employed in this production are members of the Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the U.S. AEA was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote, and foster the art of live theater as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers, and stage managers working in hundreds of theaters across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theaters as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theater has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions.

Irish Arts Center Staff

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Andrew Breslin
Aidan Connolly
Kristine Covillo
John S. Daly
Robert M. Devlin
Celestine Donaghy
John Duffy
Russell Gioiella
Loretta Brennan Glucksman
Shaun Kelly 
John Martin
Robert J. McCann
Shane Naughton
Sharon Patrick
James E. Quinn
Pauline Turley

STAFF 

Sarah Balsam-Moga (Development Operations Manager)
Zohra Coday (Programming Associate)
Aidan Connolly (Executive Director)
Manuel Da Silva (Production Manager and Lighting Supervisor)
Shannon Ducey (Administrative Manager)
Fiona Farrell (Communications and Marketing Coordinator)
Vivian Fong (Director of Communications and Marketing)
Rachael W. Gilkey (Director of Programming and Education)
Laney Granito (Special Events Producer)
Jon Harper (Chief Operating Officer)
Anah Klate (Audience Services Manager)
Gabe Lozada (Associate Director of Development for Major Gifts)
Andy O'Reilly (Artist Services Manager)
Barry Ó Séanáin (Director of Development)
Ciara O'Shea (Communications and Marketing Coordinator)
Emma Reifschneider (Executive and Special Projects Coordinator)
Jessie Reilly (Director of Education, Family and Community Programming)
Ami Scherson (Development Officer)
Thomas Short (Stage Supervisor)
Mac Smith (Director of Production)
Matt Storti (Executive Assistant)
Pauline Turley (Vice Chair)
Dennis Walls (Director of Facility Operations)
Maggie Wilson (Development Associate, Grants)
Kestrel Wolgemuth (Associate Director of Programming)

Sabrina Varghese ( Senior Human Resources Partner)  

Amandeep Kaur  (Staff Accountant, NCheng)
Satyam Puri  (Staff Accountant, NCheng)
Desaann Legzim (Senior Accountant, NCheng)
Vera Wong (Manager, NCheng)

Pat Morin (Graphic Designer)
Taylor Panetti (Graphic Designer)
Torrence Brown (Graphic Designer)

Blake Zidell (Public Relations Consultant, Blake Zidell & Associates)