Digital Producer
We are pleased to announce Kevin Michael Reed as our newly appointed Digital Producer.
Over the next three months, we look forward to working with Kevin and have his expertise contribute to the development of our Creative Digital Strategy, in addition to offering advice and support to our Members.
With the need to move activity online, we recognise that there is a need to build knowledge, skills, and experience in the dance community to fully embrace the potential for technology as a means of both transmission and artistic expression in our art form. There are exciting developments and great opportunities in dance and digital praxis internationally, and fertile ground for growth in this area in Ireland. This project is a first step for Dance Ireland, and we are keen to explore and seed ambition in this area.
We look forward to sharing more details and information on how to engage with this programme over the next few weeks. Watch this space!
ABOUT Kevin Michael Reed
Kevin Michael Reed is a theatre director and designer exploring the intersection of art and technology in performance.
His production credits in theatre include producer, director, playwright, dramaturg and Lighting & AV designer. He was a dancer and performer into early adulthood; for 15 years, he ran an award-winning fashion photography and motion capture studio in New York City's garment district before returning to theatre.
Recent directing credits include: X by Alistair McDowall (The Lir), Shadows by Carguil L.G. Webley (Squire Lane Theatrical / Theatro Technis), and Version 2.0 by Kashyap Raja (Squire Lane Theatrical / Leicester Square Theatre). Recent collaborators, in various roles, include: The Lir (“Blood Wedding”), Equinox Theatre Company (“We All Come From Somewhere”), Corn Exchange / Dublin Fringe Festival (“Bodies of Water”), Pan Pan Platform / AOB Arts Management (“Symphony of Worms”), Asylum Productions / Abbey Theatre (“The Big Chapel X”), Gerrard Martin Dance Company / AndWhat Queer Arts Festival (“B”), and Tenth Muse Productions / Omnibus Theatre London (“Beauty & The Beast, a new adaptation”).
In April 2020, he founded TheatreMaker.ie, and its weekly live webcast Stage Door Live.
During the Covid-19 Pandemic, he has been consulting and technical directing live streamed productions for various theatre companies throughout Ireland, including Axis Ballymun (“The Windy Lady’s Christmas Live Stream”), The Lir (“Eclipsed”, “The Unreturning”, “Salome”, “Wish List”, “Image of an Unknown Young Woman”), Dublin Arts & Human Rights Festival, Carlow Arts Festival, and KCAT Arts Centre.
Kevin holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY), a Master of Arts in Playwriting from City, University of London, and a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Directing from The Lir, National Academy of Dramatic Art (Dublin).