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Hugh is an Irish producer, writer, and dramaturg working across theatre, opera, music and the visual and digital arts. He is the Head of Cultural Affairs for the Irish Embassy in Paris, responsible for developing opportunities for collaboration between Irish and French artists and cultural institutions.
Hugh was the digital producer for Landmark Productions from 2020-2023 and a visiting researcher at the School of Creative Arts, Trinity College Dublin, where he is writing a paper on the emergence of experiential storytelling.
With Listen & Breathe, the company he formed with sound designer Tyler Kieffer in 2015, Hugh creates mindfulness-based experiences exploring how we interact with ourselves, each other and our environment. Listen & Breathe’s experiences have been commissioned and presented in Ireland and the United States. Their production, FEAST: Every Year I Grow Again, is an augmented-reality dining experience about the food we eat in collaboration with Michelin-star chef, Kevin Thornton.
Hugh is creating an opera, I AM ALAN TURING, using the latest artificial intelligence from Open AI—a project supported by the Yale Digital Humanities Laboratory, the Yale Centre for Collaborative Media and Arts and the Yale Centre for British Art. Find out more at www.iamalanturing.com
Hugh regularly develops and produces work for a wide range of visual and theatre artists, writers and composers, leading ideas from initial concept through planning, budgeting and financing to presentation. He has produced work with the Gare St. Lazare Players, Unreal Cities, Brokentalkers, White Label, Zoe Ní Riordáin, OneTwoOneTwo, OT Platform, Sun Collective and Conor McNally.
His productions have been widely critically acclaimed and have toured internationally to the U.K., France and the United States. Hugh was awarded the Next Generation Artist Bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland in 2020, and the Wicklow County Council Artist Award in 2021. He took part in the SPACE digital arts residency, run by The Performance Corporation, in 2022.
Hugh holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from the Yale School of Drama and a professional diploma in User Experience Design from the UX Design Institute.