Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland
Freelance Festival | Creative Director & Producer, based in Kilkenny, Ireland, with over 25 years experience working professionally in the arts in Ireland and London. Finalist for Image PwC Creative Businesswoman of the Year Award 2026. Director of Schweppe Curtis Nunn Ltd | Festivals and Events.
Curator of Toil and Trouble Festival, a festival established in 2024 to mark the 700th anniversary of the Kilkenny Witch Trials. The festival draws on this history to develop a contemporary, place-based programme exploring folklore, belief systems and power through performance, music, storytelling and public engagement. The 2026 edition continues to build the festival as a distinctive platform for ambitious, historically grounded cultural programming in Ireland.
Schweppe Curtis Nunn held the contract to deliver Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival from 2017-2020 and 2022 - 2025. Bram Stoker Festival celebrates the legacy of one of Ireland’s most beloved and iconic writers and is now firmly established as one of Dublin’s largest arts festivals, with more than 61,000 people attending festival events in 2025. The festival draws inspiration from Stoker, his life, his work, the Dublin of his time and celebrates the Gothic, the supernatural, the after-dark and the Victorian. Over the years, we’ve presented major outdoor spectacles and installations; intimate experiences on hallowed grounds; world premieres of new scores for classic films and award winning theatre productions; outdoor circus at night in dark, foreboding forests; comedy in nightclubs; choral ensembles in darkened libraries; food tours where participants dined on custom menus; elaborate banquets in sacred crypts. We’ve taken over cathedrals, parks and squares; entertained thousands of Dubliners and visitors with parades, fire gardens and illuminated, water-based installations; delved into Stoker’s literary impact, dissecting everything from his life and city to his work as a critic and entertained little monsters with kid-friendly discos, workshops, face-painting, performances and more at Stokerland and beyond.
In 2025, Dublin City City Council Bram Stoker Festival was approached by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to present a series of performances that celebrated Ireland as the Home of Hallowe'en and that showcased the festival’s creativity on the global stage, including Kwaidan, a cross-cultural commission linking Ireland and Japan through the work of Lafcadio Hearn, alongside performances by Macnas, Schola Hyberniae, historian Donal Fallon, and a live-scored screening of Nosferatu. With more than 240,000 people visiting the Expo each day, the festival’s programme enjoyed exceptional visibility and positive reception from international audiences, while highlighting Dublin’s creative sector and the global appeal of Bram Stoker’s legacy’s and his works' universal themes.
Curious Gardens was two one day Festivals of chats, tunes and laughs set in the walled gardens of Doneraile Estate and Emo Court, co-produced with Emperors’ Robes in partnership with the OPW.
Brightening Air | Coiscéim Coiligh brought together some of Ireland’s most exciting artists and arts organisations in a celebration of renewed optimism and brighter days ahead. The programme, with experiences both live in person and available to enjoy at home, ran from 11-20 June 2021 in all sorts of venues, casting a light from coast to coast and creating sparks of joy throughout the country. Initiated by the Arts Council as a way to share our resilience, creativity and connection through the arts, following a recommendation by the report Survive, Adapt, Renew, Schweppe Curtis Nunn tendered for and won the contract to deliver all elements of this nationwide season of events including brand creation, open call application management, programming, production, marketing and PR.