Irish Theatre Institute (ITI) is delighted to announce the playwrights and theatre makers for Six in the Attic and Virtual Attic 2025.   

Six in the Attic (SITA) and Virtual Attic is Irish Theatre Institute (ITI)’s key artist development programme. This year-long programme supports a community of playwrights and theatre makers to engage, explore, develop, debate, and collaborate on their projects and practice, both in-person and virtually.   

The programme continues to grow each year, and this year, we are excited to welcome fourteen playwrights and theatre makers (both virtual and in-person) from across the island of Ireland to participate in Six in the Attic and Virtual Attic 2025.  

We wish to thank the artist panel for their time and generous consideration: Eleanor Walsh, Dafe Pessu Orugbo and Noelle Brown.  

 The Six in the Attic & Virtual Attic Artists for the 2025 programme are: 

• Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng 吳彩萍 (Six in the Attic)
• Tishé Fatunbi (Six in the Attic, Fingal)  
• John King (Six in the Attic)  
• Liam McCarthy (Six in the Attic)  
• Lianne O’Hara (Six in the Attic) 
• Roseanna Purcell (Six in the Attic) 
• CN Smith (Six in the Attic)
• Al Dalton (Virtual Attic, Cork County) 
• Katie Honan (Virtual Attic, Waterford) 
• Roseanne Lynch (Virtual Attic, Kildare) 
• Alice Malseed (Virtual Attic, Belfast) 
• Caitlin Magnall-Kearns (Virtual Attic, Belfast) 
• Tzarini Meyler (Virtual Attic, Tipperary) 
• Carmel Stephens (Virtual Attic, Wicklow) 

We are also thrilled that Lian Bell returns as Creative Facilitator.   

2025 marks the second time the programme has included strategic local authority partners ensuring the virtual programme reaches the entire country. This year, the six partners include: Cork County Council Arts Office, Fingal Arts Office, Kildare County Arts Office, Tipperary Arts Office, Waterford County Arts Office, and Wicklow County Arts Office. 

Six in the Attic was established in 2011, focusing on supporting a community of playwrights and theatre makers to engage, explore, develop, debate, and collaborate on their projects. Since the foundation of the programme, Six in the Attic alumni have gone on to great successes – creating new works, winning awards, and founding theatre companies, amongst many more accolades and achievements.  

For more information about the programme and biographies of the artists please visit the Six in the Attic page.