Founded in 2010, LILT is comprised of a number of academics and theatre-makers based in the Liverpool area and associated with the city’s John Moores University. The idea informing the company is to produce plays based on the lives and writings of various figures from Irish literary history, with a view to explicating and popularising their work. Thus far the company has produced six pieces, with another full-length production currently in development.
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Gerry Smyth
Gerry Smyth is an academic, actor and musician from Dublin, now resident in Liverpool where he is Professor of Irish Cultural History at John Moores University. His early research was mainly in the field of Irish literature, although since 2002 he has also written widely on the subject of Irish music. Gerry has lectured and performed throughout Europe and the United States on various aspects of Irish culture. Recent publications include The Judas Kiss: Treason and Betrayal in Six Modern Irish Novels (Manchester UP, 2015), and Celtic Tiger Blues: Music and Irish Identity (Routledge, 2016). Gerry has released numerous recordings of progressive folk music, as well as an album of settings of lyrics by James Joyce. He is the author of four plays dealing with various aspects of modern Irish literary history.
David Llewellyn
After a thirty-seven year career as a lecturer and principal lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University David Llewellyn has retired to pursue working freelance as an actor and dramatist. After his first degree from Bretton Hall and Leeds University specialising in Drama and Education, David worked as a professional actor and theatre-maker for several years with credits both in the established theatre and in community theatre practice. Following two years travelling around the world during which he intermittently found professional work as an actor and theatre maker in, Africa, Australia and America, David returned to Leeds to take a Masters Degree in Theatre Studies. Throughout his academic life in in Liverpool, he has continued to maintain a professional profile in drama alongside his teaching and research as a lecturer. He has been commissioned to write plays for the theatre, has directed professionally and intermittently published as an actor for the BBC. David has written and directed a number of successful plays for the Edinburgh Fringe with his company Mad World Theatre. These include an adaptation of Spike Milligan’s Puckoon in the eighties and nineties, PlayingAway for Hull Truck Theatre and most recently Pool of Blood in 2014.
Thomas Galashan
Thomas Galashan is a Liverpool based actor who originates from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He completed a three year BA Honours in Drama in May 2015 and has since been honing his craft and taking on various acting jobs in the Merseyside area. He has appeared in shows such as John Davies’ Unsung in the Everyman and Gerry Smyth’s Nora and Jim in the Unity Theatre, in which he played James Joyce. As a result of this performance he signed with Liverpool based agency RbA Management and hopes to continue to mould his career and craft with them over the coming years.
Jade Thomson
Jade Thomson graduated Liverpool John Moores University with a First Class BA Honours Drama degree in 2015. Since then she has been working professionally as an actor in Liverpool. Her latest performance being Nora, in Gerry Smyth’s Nora and Jim; which was shown at The Unity Theatre and in Ireland. She has also worked at The Maritime Museum on the 2016 performance of Rush, a theatre in education performance about drug awareness. Jade has taken a show up to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with …Oh Yes Theatre Company; Inglorious Insinuations of Insanity. She has recently performed in the Liverpool Irish Festival, in Scadan and is now signed with RBA management.
For more information on Jade’s previous work please visit her Spotlight Page: 3590-0191-3057
Isaac Nixon
Isaac Nixon is a current student at John Moores University and has undertaken several projects alongside his studies. Isaac has previously performed in a short production of Twelfth Night in London, and has demonstrated his dedication to the arts in projects across Liverpool. As part of the Odyssey Arts Live theatre company, he played Clyde in Sutty and Sweep in the Lantern Theatre before joining LILT to play Bill in The Glittering Gate. Isaac has also performed in Edinburgh, playing the eponymous character in an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's short story, Merkheim. After writing, directing, and performing a one-man play called Screaming Planet in the Joe H Makin, Isaac was involved in a devised performance to promote the Liverpool Royal Court theatre and puppeteered a dragon in Liverpool's streets as part of the Big Liverpool History Festival.
Gerry Smyth
Gerry Smyth is an academic, actor and musician from Dublin, now resident in Liverpool where he is Professor of Irish Cultural History at John Moores University. His early research was mainly in the field of Irish literature, although since 2002 he has also written widely on the subject of Irish music. Gerry has lectured and performed throughout Europe and the United States on various aspects of Irish culture. Recent publications include The Judas Kiss: Treason and Betrayal in Six Modern Irish Novels (Manchester UP, 2015), and Celtic Tiger Blues: Music and Irish Identity (Routledge, 2016). Gerry has released numerous recordings of progressive folk music, as well as an album of settings of lyrics by James Joyce. He is the author of four plays dealing with various aspects of modern Irish literary history.
David Lewellyn
After a thirty-seven year career as a lecturer and principal lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University David Llewellyn has retired to pursue working freelance as an actor and dramatist. After his first degree from Bretton Hall and Leeds University specialising in Drama and Education, David worked as a professional actor and theatre-maker for several years withcredits both in the established theatre and in community theatre practice. Following two years travelling around the world during which he intermittently found professional work as an
actor and theatre maker in, Africa, Australia and America, David returned to Leeds to take a Masters Degree in Theatre Studies. Throughout his academic life in in Liverpool, he has continued to maintain a professional profile in drama alongside his teaching and research as a lecturer. He has been commissioned to write plays for the theatre, has directed professionally and intermittently published as an actor for the BBC. David has written and directed a
number of successful plays for the Edinburgh Fringe with his company Mad World Theatre. These include an adaptation of Spike Milligan’s Puckoon in the eighties and nineties, PlayingAway for Hull Truck Theatre and most recently Pool of Blood in 2014.
Jade Thomson
Jade Thomson graduated Liverpool John Moores University with a First Class BA Honours Drama degree in 2015. Since then she has been working professionally as an actor in Liverpool. Her latest performance being Nora, in Gerry Smyth’s Nora and Jim; which was shown at The Unity Theatre and in Ireland. She has also worked at The Maritime Museum on the 2016 performance of Rush, a theatre in education performance about drug awareness. Jade has taken a show up to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with …Oh Yes Theatre Company; Inglorious Insinuations of Insanity. She has recently performed in the Liverpool Irish Festival, in Scadan and is now signed with RBA management. For more information on Jade’s previous work please visit her Spotlight Page: 3590-0191-3057
Thomas Galashan
Thomas Galashan is a Liverpool based actor who originates from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He completed a three year BA Honours in Drama in May 2015 and has since been honing his craft and taking on various acting jobs in the Merseyside area. He has appeared in shows such as John Davies’ Unsung in the Everyman and Gerry Smyth’s Nora and Jim in the Unity Theatre, in which he played James Joyce. As a result of this performance he signed with Liverpool based agency RbA Management and hopes to continue to mould his career and craft with them over the coming years.
Gerry Smyth
Gerry Smyth is an academic, actor and musician from Dublin, now resident in Liverpool where he is Professor of Irish Cultural History at John Moores University. His early research was mainly in the field of Irish literature, although since 2002 he has also written widely on the subject of Irish music. Gerry has lectured and performed throughout Europe and the United States on various aspects of Irish culture. Recent publications include The Judas Kiss: Treason and Betrayal in Six Modern Irish Novels (Manchester UP, 2015), and Celtic Tiger Blues: Music and Irish Identity (Routledge, 2016). Gerry has released numerous recordings of progressive folk music, as well as an album of settings of lyrics by James Joyce. He is the author of four plays dealing with various aspects of modern Irish literary history.
David Lewellyn
After a thirty-seven year career as a lecturer and principal lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University David Llewellyn has retired to pursue working freelance as an actor and dramatist. After his first degree from Bretton Hall and Leeds University specialising in Drama and Education, David worked as a professional actor and theatre-maker for several years withcredits both in the established theatre and in community theatre practice. Following two years travelling around the world during which he intermittently found professional work as an
actor and theatre maker in, Africa, Australia and America, David returned to Leeds to take a Masters Degree in Theatre Studies. Throughout his academic life in in Liverpool, he has continued to maintain a professional profile in drama alongside his teaching and research as a lecturer. He has been commissioned to write plays for the theatre, has directed professionally and intermittently published as an actor for the BBC. David has written and directed a
number of successful plays for the Edinburgh Fringe with his company Mad World Theatre. These include an adaptation of Spike Milligan’s Puckoon in the eighties and nineties, PlayingAway for Hull Truck Theatre and most recently Pool of Blood in 2014.
Jade Thomson
Jade Thomson graduated Liverpool John Moores University with a First Class BA Honours Drama degree in 2015. Since then she has been working professionally as an actor in Liverpool. Her latest performance being Nora, in Gerry Smyth’s Nora and Jim; which was shown at The Unity Theatre and in Ireland. She has also worked at The Maritime Museum on the 2016 performance of Rush, a theatre in education performance about drug awareness. Jade has taken a show up to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with …Oh Yes Theatre Company; Inglorious Insinuations of Insanity. She has recently performed in the Liverpool Irish Festival, in Scadan and is now signed with RBA management. For more information on Jade’s previous work please visit her Spotlight Page: 3590-0191-3057