Danielle Galligan

Danielle Galligan (born 1 December 1992) is an Irish actress, theatre maker, and poet.

Danielle Galligan
Born (1992-12-01) 1 December 1992
Other namesDani Galligan
Alma materThe Lir Academy
OccupationActress, theatre maker
Years active2015–present

Early life and education

Galligan is from Rathfarnham, a suburb in South Dublin.[1][2] Her mother, Lorraine is a beauty therapist who runs a salon and beauty school Galligan Beauty.[3] Danielle was raised Catholic but now considers herself agnostic.

Galligan was a member of Ann Kavanagh's Young People's Theatre from 2005 to 2011 and attended Loreto High School Beaufort. She was also awarded the Ena Burke bursary for the Betty Ann Norton Theatre School.[4] She then studied Drama and Theatre studies at Trinity College Dublin and trained in Acting at The Lir Academy, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 2015.[5]

Career

Theatre

After graduating from The Lir, Galligan began her career in stage productions such as The Train with the Rough Magic Theatre Company and Hostel 16.[6] For Hostel 16, Galligan had a FUEL theatre making residency and workshop alongside Fionnuala Gygax and Ailish Leavy at the Druid Theatre.[7] In 2017, she was in All Honey and played the titular role in The Grimm Tale of Cinderella.[6][8]

Galligan played the lead opposite Tom Moran in his 2018 play Lyrics.[9] She starred alongside Finbarr Doyle as Stash in James Elliott's short play Summertime, which featured at the 2018 Dublin Fringe Festivals, where she and Doyle were shortlisted for Best Duo for the judge's choice awards,[10] as well as the 2019 Drogheda Arts Festival and Abbey Theatre's 2019 Young Curators Festival.[11] She played Cinnamon in We Can’t Have Monkeys in the House in 2018 at the New Theatre and reprised role also at the 2019 Young Curators Festival.[6][12] She featured as the singer in Gavin Kostick's 12 Christmas Poems that December.[13][14]

Galligan was the dramaturg for Aisling O'Mara's Nothing But A Toerag, which premiered in January 2019.[15] Galligan participated in a podcast with RISE Productions in which Galligan, Gavin Kostick, Eanna Hardwicke, and Janet Moran performed a modern version of Homer's Odyssey written by Kostick in full.[16] Galligan and Kostick, having been working on this project since 2017, then co-created and performed in Gym Swim Party, a choreography production inspired by Kostick's take on The Odyssey in association with O'Reilly Theatre.[17] The production was featured in the 2019 Dublin Fringe Festival.[13][18]

Chaos Factory

In 2018, Galligan co-founded Chaos Factory, an experimental theatre company alongside Fionnuala Gygax, Venetia Bowe, and Rachel Bergin. They debuted with a production titled Kiss Kiss Slap, which featured in the 2018 Dublin Fringe Festival.[19][20] Their second project was MorphMe, which premiered in April 2019.[21] Starting in 2019, Chaos Factory collaborated with The Corn Exchange on a workshop at the Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray, County Wicklow.[22]

Television and film

Galligan has featured in several award-winning short films, such as Strangers in the Park, Pernicio, Beautiful Youth, and Break Us.[23][24] She won best actress at the Short+Sweet Film Festival in Sydney and best duo alongside Mark Lawrence at the for Strangers in the Park and helped co-write the 2017 romantic-comedy short. She has also received nominations from the Richard Harris Film Festival and the Underground Cinema Festival for her role in Pernicio.[4]

Galligan made her television debut in 2019 with guest roles in Game of Thrones and Krypton.[25] She landed her first major television role as Nina Zenik in upcoming Netflix series Shadow and Bone, an adaptation of fantasy book series The Grisha Trilogy and the Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo.[26]

Other media

Galligan has participated in RTÉ radio dramas such as The Playboy of the Western World and Hecuba by Marina Carr.[27][28]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2016 Closing Time The Wretched Girl Short film
2017 Strangers in the Park Aisling Short film; co-wrote
2018 Pernicio Sam Thomson Short film
2018 Beautiful Youth Lili Short film
2018 Tomorrow Eilish Short film
2019 Break Us Sophie Short film
2020 We Don't Choose How Jenny In post-production
TBA Lily Naomi In post-production

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2019 Game of Thrones Sarra Episode: "The Last of the Starks"
2019 Krypton Enaj 2 episodes
2020 Cold Courage Daiga Mednis 2 episodes
2021 Shadow and Bone Nina Zenik In post-production

Music videos
Song Year Artist Notes
"You and Me" 2017 DAVIIS
"Can You Feel It" 2018 Yellow Season

Stage
Year Title Role Notes
2015 The Train Bella Lime Tree Theatre; Dublin Theatre Festival, Project Arts Centre; Abbey Theatre
2016 Hostel 16 Danielle Druid Theatre; Smock Alley Theatre
2016 Cascando Auditor Samuel Beckett Theatre
2016 Beyond Barricades Helena / Christina / Nora / Julia Anu Productions; 1916 Bus Tour, Dublin
2017 The Heiress Maria Gate Theatre
2017 All Honey Ru New Theatre; Dublin Fringe Festival, Bewley's
2017 The Grimm Tale of Cinderella Ella / The Old Woman Smock Alley Theatre
2018 Lyrics Her Theatre Upstairs, Eden Quay
2018 Kiss Kiss Slap Dublin Fringe Festival, Smock Alley Theatre; Mermaid Arts Centre
Co-created
2018–2019 Summertime Stash Dublin Fringe Festival, Peacock Theatre; Drogheda Arts Festival
Co-created
2018, 2019 We Can’t Have Monkeys in the House Cinnamon New Theatre; Young Curators Festival
2018 12 Christmas Poems The Songstress Peacock Theatre
2019 Nothing But A Toerag N/A Dramaturg
2019 The Playboy Riot! Molly Allgood 24 Hour Plays, Abbey Theatre
2019 MorphMe Co-created
2019 Gym Swim Party Clem Dublin Fringe Festival, O'Reilly Theatre
Co-created
2020 Will I See You There N/A Co-deviser; Dublin Fringe Festival

Audio
Year Title Role Notes
2016 The Playboy of the Western World Susan Brady RTÉ Drama
2018 Hecuba Polyxena RTÉ Drama
2019 The Odyssey: A New Version Various roles Irish Theatre Podcast

Awards and Nominations
Year Award Category Work Result
2018 Richard Harris Film Festival Best Actress Pernicio Nominated
2018 Underground Cinema Festival Best Actress Pernicio Nominated
2018 Dublin Fringe Festival Judge's Choice: Best Duo (With Finbarr Doyle) Summertime Nominated
2019 Short+Sweet Film Festival Best Actress Strangers in the Park Won
2019 6 on Nebraska Film Festival Best Acting Duo (With Mark Lawrence) Strangers in the Park Won

References
  1. "A Dublin Actress Has Been Cast For Game Of Thrones & Could Be Involved In A Major Story-Line". Lovin Dublin. 28 November 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  2. Tom Moran (1 April 2018). "Danielle Galligan Plays Personality Bingo". Headstuff (Podcast). Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  3. Gallagher, Sean (17 April 2016). "Beauty will never go out of business". Independent.ie. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  4. "Danielle Galligan". Lorraine Brennan Management. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  5. "Acting Profiles / Alumni 2015: Danielle Galligan". The Lir. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  6. "People - Danielle Galligan". Playography Ireland. Irish Theatre Institute. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  7. "Direct Provision under the spotlight at Druid". Connacht Tribune. 4 December 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  8. Wynne-Walsh, Rebecca. "BWW Review: The Grimm Tale of Cinderella at Smock Valley Theatre". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  9. "Exclusive: Facts contributor Tom Moran premieres his own original play 'Lyrics'". Goss.ie. 4 April 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  10. Falvey, Deirdre (24 September 2018). "'Breathtaking, rule-breaking, legend-making': Dublin Fringe Festival winners". The Irish Times. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  11. "Summertime Show". Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  12. Hayes, Katy (17 November 2018). "We Can't Have Monkeys in the House: New Irish play explores a lethal maternal misogyny". Independent.ie. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  13. "Gym Swim Party - Danielle Galligan and Gavin Kostick". Fringe Fest. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  14. "Abbey Theatre presents Gavin Kostick and Guests: 12 Christmas Poems". Abbey Theatre. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  15. "Nothing But A Toerag by Aisling O'Mara". IndieGoGo. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  16. "Irish Theatre Podcast". RISE Productions (Podcast). Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  17. "Thoughts on Homer and the Making of Gym Swim Party by Gavin Kostick". Writing.ie. 12 September 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  18. "Interview with Gavin Kostick and Danielle Galligan – Gym Swim Party – Dublin Fringe Festival". No More Workhorse. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  19. "About". Chaos Factory Theatre. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  20. Whelan, Zuzia (29 August 2018). "A New Theatre Company Looks at Sexuality in the Wake of #MeToo". Dublin Inquirer. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  21. "Projects". Chaos Factory Theatre. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  22. "The Corn Exchange and Chaos Factory". Mermaid County Wicklow Arts Centre. January 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  23. "Watch Irish Short Film: Pernicio". Film Ireland. 22 March 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  24. "Galway Film Fleadh Filmmakers Roundtable". Film Ireland. 11 July 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  25. Byrne, Ruairi Scott (27 November 2017). "An Irish actress has been cast in 'Game of Thrones' season 8 - and it could mean the return of a once great House". Buzz.ie. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  26. Harris, Latesha (2 October 2019). "TV News Roundup: Netflix Reveals Cast of New Series 'Shadow and Bone'". Variety. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  27. "The Playboy of the Western World - A Radio Musical". RTÉ Radio 1. 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  28. "Hecuba written by Marina Carr". RTÉ Radio 1. 16 December 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
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