Join us this Culture Night for Space Deli – The Concert. Presented by PayAttention Collective, the show is a sci-fi romantic musical-comedy that follows the highs and lows of the staff of a struggling deli counter…in space. We are looking forward to welcoming the team.
Robert Keogh – Writer/Director – He/Him
Robert Keogh is a writer/director/producer from Dublin. He has been producing independent theatre for the last decade. Space Deli is his first musical.
Kat Clinch – Writer/Director – They/Them
A passionate creative since childhood, Kat Clinch is a writer, playwright, poet, comic, dancer, drag artist, performer, director, and producer. They are best known for their work with Pay Attention! Collective and Trinity Players, but they are also a doctor during the day. They have successfully produced shows with Pay Attention! Collective & Pay Attention! Productions for more than 8 years in the Dublin Arts Scene and enjoying fostering talent in the arts and working as an advocate for minority groups. They particularly like writing comedy and queer stories. Space Deli: The Musical is their first musical, but not their first project with their friend and co-writer Robert Keogh. They’re incredibly proud of the amazing team that has assembled around this creation, and the audience responses to date – they hope this campy sci-fi comedy will delight in its new concert iteration at The Civic Theatre in Tallaght.
Mitch Hamilton – Composer/Musical Director/Band: Keys – He/They
Mitch Hamilton is a composer and performer with over a decade of work in musical theatre. His previous work as a composer includes “BAGGAGE”, an exploration of the immigrant and expat experience as a newcomer to Ireland.
Áine Mary Sullivan – Performer: Zelknor – She/Her
Áine Mary Sullivan is a soprano who studied under Virginia Kerr at the Royal Irish Academy of Music where she graduated with first honours in 2024. She was the first winner of the Catherine Chase Fitzgerald Memorial Award for excellence in voice and has sung on live television in the Rose of Tralee. Some of Áine’s stage roles include chorus member in Alcina by Caccini and The Sofa by Maconchy. She played one of the leads, Hannah Moynihan, in McNeff’s new opera Spirits Unsurrendered. Áine is currently working as a singing teacher based in Dublin whilst spreading more awareness for students with visual impairments in Higher Music Education with the Associated European Conservatoires.
Richard Neville – Performer: Thordan – He/Him
Richard recently finished shooting on Hulu/RTÉ’s Obituary in which he plays Leon Tully. He performed in IFTA-nominated short Debutante, he played Alien God in Lemon Soap Productions’ the Lesbian Revue of World History in Smock Alley, he was Sebastian and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Gift Horse Theatre’s Twelfth Night across stately homes and gardens in Leinster, Apemantus in Timon of Athens in the Trinity Chapel, Cambridge, the Caoining as part of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at Smock Alley Theatre. He first gained his love of performance with Players while at Trinity College Dublin and was a part of Footlights while at the University of Cambridge. Richard is represented by Frontline Actors Agency.
Esther Kleise – Performer: Fourdee/Producer – She/Her
In early life, Esther’s mum signed her up to the local musical theater school as advised by a kindergarten teacher. From then on acting has been a major part of her life, performing in musicals and stage plays whenever she could. She obtained a degree in science, but could not shake the acting bug and completed a summer conservatory course at the Art of Acting Studio in Los Angeles. Since then she has taken the stage in Dublin on multiple occasions, and she’s excited to do so again on Culture Night!
Heather Kelly – Band: Drums – They/Them
Heather is a drummer from Dublin with a grá for musical theatre. Drumming since the age of 12, Heather has played in predominantly pop and punk spaces. Space Deli is their first musical.
Fintan Lawlor – Band: Base – He/Him
Fintan Lawlor is a singer and multi-instrumentalist originally from county Wexford. A BIMM Institute graduate in 2016, he has been playing music in solo and band roles since then. Tonight marks a first for Fintan as he makes his debut as a stage musical bassist. He’s been a dear friend to Pay Attention Collective since its inception and is excited to rejoin the gang for their concert production of Space Deli.
James Ireland – Band: Guitar – They/Them
James is a disabled theatre maker, sound designer, and co-founder of award-winning gig theatre company Bradán (Axis Green Arts Award at Dublin Fringe Festival 2022; VAULT x Staging Change Award 2022).
