What happens? You choose!
Ever watch a play and wish it would have gone differently? Ever wished you could have changed the story to suit yourself? Well now you can!
You, the audience, will decide whether to help the characters solve a comedy mystery, or make it harder for them.
To give them a happy ending or dreadful one. And to decide what they’ll wear while they do it! Come choose your own adventure. The best part is, the actors will be as surprised as you are!
Monday 24th
Aisling Breen
Aisling is a Dublin-based performer, movement coach and writer. Theatre credits include Shaz in Tinder- the Comedy, Resident Director/Understudy in Menopause the Musical, Mrs Pugh in Annie, Lina Lamont in Singin’ in the Rain, Grease in the Cork Opera House, Sharon Ní Hoolahoop in Éirevision, Sunshine Suzy in The Snow Queen, , Shakira the She Wolf in The Jungle Book, and Harmony De Vile in Cinderella all at the Gaiety Theatre. On screen, she has appeared in Fair City, Après Match and The Late Late Show. Aisling has written and created five original children’s shows for Rathwood, as well as numerous scripts for schools and family theatre. She was Storyteller in Residence for Dublin City Libraries in 2025. Aisling is delighted (terrified!) to be appearing in tonight’s play!
Georgina McKevitt
Georgina began her career with the legendary Dublin Youth Theatre, at the age of 14. There she met Jacinta Sheerin and together they co-founded Wicked Angels. They co-wrote, co-produced and performed in their first play, Waiting for IKEA. It ran for over five years across Ireland, London and Off Broadway, NYC. Recently they received Screen Ireland funding to create the short film, Taking Liberties, based on characters from Waiting for IKEA. Also through DYT Georgina met Peter Dunne. Through the years they have continued to work together on many of Peter’s productions such as Before Colour, Petrified, The Ghost Story Gathering and now DIY Play!
Eimear Morrissey
Eimear is excited and terrified to be taking part in DIY Play! But delighted it’s at The Civic where she played Magic Mirror in Panto in 2019, and with fabulous group of actors Peter has assembled. She’s currently in Obituary series 2 on RTE playing nurse Bernadine, and will be playing Drew, a Christmas Cupid in The 12 Dates ‘til Christmas – a new Hallmark TV series this festive season.
Tuesday 25th
Margaret McAuliffe
Margaret McAuliffe is an actor and writer from Dublin. She has worked with companies such as Loco and Reckless, Rough Magic, The Gate, Anú, Landmark, Druid, Fishamble, The Collective, Collapsing Horse and The Abbey Theatre. She is a series regular on the award-winning audio podcasts, Petrified and SpookyFM. She wrote, produced and performs in her smash hit, one-woman show, The Humours of Bandon – a coming-of-age comedy about competitive Irish Dancing. The play has won numerous awards and has toured worldwide, nationally and is currently in development with Treasure Entertainment to be adapted for the screen. Margaret is represented by Sovran Carey in Dublin.
Michelle McMahon
Michelle McMahon is an actor, director and writer. Her theatre credits include Just Passing Through (Coney), Nightmare Plants (Bram Stoker Festival), Adventure 1: A Tail of Two Cities (Camden People’s Theatre), Inhabitance (Project Arts Centre), Early Days of a Better Nation (Battersea Arts Centre), Broadening (Project Arts Centre), The Eye Test (Shoreditch Town Hall), Keep Calm and Don’t Mention… (24 Hour Plays at The Abbey Theatre). Audio drama includes Petrified series 1-4 (Peter Dunne). Television credits include Eastenders (BBC). Film credits includes A Christmas Carol (Frith Street Films) and No Place (Laura Kavanagh Films).
Ste Murray
Ste is an actor whose previous stage work includes Circle of Friends and Light A Penny Candle at The Gaiety Theatre, Hue And Cry at Bewley’s Cafe Theatre, one-man show Panned at Project Arts Centre, BlackCatfishMusketeer at Lyric Theatre, Sunder with Anu Productions, and The 24 Hour Plays at The Abbey. On screen, he has appeared in Fair City, Eipic, Corp + Anam and Trasnana Line. Ste’s first short film, Earmark, is currently doing the festival circuit. When he’s not treading the boards, he is also a photographer at www.ste.ie.
Wednesday 26th
Ali Fox
Ali Fox is an actor, comedian, voiceover artist and content creator from Dublin. She is currently featuring on RTE’s Fair City as Babs Mullen, and RTÉ Jnr’s Dizzy Deliveries. Recent credits include RTE’s Clean Sweep, Channel 5’s The Night Caller, AMC’s Harry Wild and horror film You Are Not My Mother by Kate Dolan. In theatre, Ali performed a pivotal role in the work-in-progress piece TO LET by visual artist John Conway as part of Dublin Theatre Festival. On the comedy circuit, Ali is a regular performer at The Paddy Power Comedy Festival and the annual song content Bureau de Change – staged in The 3Olympia, Liberty Hall and Vicar Street.
Amy O’Dwyer
Amy O’Dwyer is an actor, voice artist, and audio producer. Her screen work includes Fair City (RTÉ), Making Dad’s Army (BBC), and the upcoming feature The Lost Children of Tuam (BBC Film / Next Thursday Films). Stage highlights include Jackie at The Yeats Memorial, Peter Pan at the Gaiety Theatre Dublin, and national tours with TNT Productions including Ledwidge, Lockdown, and Madame De Markievicz on Trial. As a voice actor, she features in the award-winning horror podcast Petrified and works across audio drama, radio, and branded content.
Cathal Ryan
Cathal Ryan graduated from The Lir Academy’s BA Acting in 2021. Originally from Tipperary, Cathal has been working as both an actor and writer. His debut one-man show Pucked, about the trials and tribulations of the GAA, had a 13 venue national tour at the start of the year. Most recently, Cathal could be seen in the 2025 Dublin Theatre Festival in Druid Theatre company’s Macbeth. Theatre credits include Macbeth, The House, Druid Debuts: Denouement (Druid Theatre Company), Stones in his Pockets (Eastern Angles), From Out The Land, Pucked (Up Til Dawn Productions), Found (Broken Crow), Romeo & Juliet (The Mill Theatre), Staging the Treaty (Anú Productions).
Thursday 27th
Tierra Porter
Tierra Porter is an actor and musician of Indigenous American, African, and Puerto Rican descent hailing from Cordele, Georgia. A graduate from The Lir, credits there include Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Winter’s Tale, Bullrusher, Untitled and The Sugar Wife. Tierra regularly performed and directed for Missoula Children’s Theatre, touring internationally. Credits include Little Shop of Horrors and Footloose (The Strand Theatre), Sister Act (Missoula Community Theatre). Irish credits include Peter Pan (The Gate Theatre}, The Sugar Wife (The Abbey), The Jesus Trilogy (Dublin Theatre Festival), Beards (LemonSoap), The Lesbian Revue of World History (LemonSoap) and Octopus Children (THISISPOPBABY). Screen credits include Tall Tales & Murder and Bucking Fastard.
David Rawle
David Rawle is an actor and writer from Leitrim. He graduated from the Lir Academy in 2022. He recently wrote and performed his new play Amsterdam for a sold-out run in Dublin Fringe 2025. Acting credits include Youth’s The Season? (Abbey Theatre), The Borrowers (The Gate Theatre), Afterwards as part of Dublin Theatre Festival (The Peacock), Danti-Dan (Livin Dred), The Blackwater Lightship (DTF, Gaiety Theatre). He plays the role of Sonny Proctor in the new comedy drama Small Town, Big Story on Sky Atlantic and appeared in the film Blue Moon, directed by Richard Linklater.
Kelly Shatter
Kelly is a comedy writer, director and performer who has spent two decades legitimising silliness and embracing tenderness. She wrote and performed the acclaimed one-woman show The Scratcher (Dublin Fringe, Bewley’s Little Gem nominee) and co-wrote/directed the award-winning Big Bobby. Little Bobby. She directed My Boyfriend Plays Pretend, written by Áine Ní Laoghaire for Druid Fuel. On screen, she co-wrote and co-directed and performed in Going the Distance with Samson Films, served as on-set director for Ní Laoghaire’s Actor As Creator short Na Bulláin, and shadowed Lenny Abrahamson on Normal People. She co-created and starred in the online series Long Dark Twenties. As Artistic Director of Stoke, one of Ireland’s first long-form improv schools, she teaches writers and performers how to follow the funny and trust their weird.
