Team Bios

Abigail Grimstad is an Associate Producer of Stage Door Live and Social Media Manager for TheatreMaker.ie. Abbie is a Seattle transplant who trained as an actor in Dublin. She's the self- professed social media maverick of the Theatremaker.ie team. She may not have any pets in Dublin, but she has plenty of plants. And they think she's fantastic.

Blue Hanley is a circus and theatre maker and member of TMie's news department.

StageDoorLive News Writer/Researcher. Hillary Dziminski is an American working in Dublin as a producer, marketing manager, and sometimes playwright. She is a founding member of The Corps Ensemble and she recently graduated from The Lir with an M.F.A. in Playwriting. Her special interests include penguins, space, and pumpkin carving.

Stage Door Live Associate Producer. Janice de Bróithe is a freelance theatre director, writer and facilitator hailing from Carlow. A self confessed nerd addicted to learning, she holds both a BA in Drama & English an MA in Theatre Performance from UCC. To top it off, she graduated with a PG Dip in Theatre Directing from LAMDA in 2013. Having cured herself of the notions of city living she now happily creates theatre in the wilds of the Irish countryside.

Founder of TheatreMaker.ie and Executive Producer & Technical Guru of Stage Door Live. Kevin Michael Reed is a theatre director and video/lighting designer based in Dublin. He is the founder of TheatreMaker.ie, and currently produces and directs Stage Door Live, theatremaker.ie's weekly live broadcast about Irish Theatre. He holds a BFA in Commercial Photography from SUNY's Fashion Institute of Technology, a MA in Creative Writing (Playwriting) from City, University of London, and a MFA in Theatre Directing from The Lir, National Academy of Dramatic Art. His direct website is kevinmichaelreed.com

TheatreMaker.ie News Writer. DCU journalism graduate.

TheatreMaker.ie News Writer | poet | Blogger | Journalist in making "Long staircases don't build good hikers. You need mountains." Born of the hills in Northern India, she is a dreamer with a pen. #notyourregulardocilegirl