Tania Banotti - Chief Executive
Tania Banotti began work with Theatre Forum, the representative association for the professional performing arts in September 2003. Its members include: all the theatres and arts centres around the country; theatre, ballet, contemporary dance, opera and spectacle production companies and the main arts festivals. Theatre Forum is the collective voice for the sector. It lobbies for greater arts funding at local and national level and has an extensive programme of professional training and development courses on everything from arts marketing to directing. It provides a range of information and advice to members.
Theatre Forum was the founder of the National Campaign for the Arts (NCFA) in September 2009. The campaign is a broad coalition of arts organisations across different arts forms, as well as individual artists. It campaigns about the importance of the arts to Irish life and also about the importance of public funding for the arts at local and national level. www.ncfa.ie. Tania is currently Secretary of the NCFA.
From 1998- 2002 Tania was Chief Executive of Screen Producers Ireland, the national trade association for film and TV production companies. For a number of years she worked in public affairs in Brussels representing companies including ITV, the Association of European Commercial Television and the Motion Picture Association of America. She has also worked for the United Nations in the Gaza Strip, Palestine for 3 years.
Eoin Gannon - Production Assistant
Eoin has an Associate Diploma from the London College of Music & Media in Teaching Drama Studies and an MA in Theatre and Drama Studies from NUI Galway.
He has worked in theatre on a local community level for many years in his home town of Newbridge. He has directed numerous musicals for local secondary schools and co-ordinates the year-long programme with the Maps & Mazes drama group of Down Syndrome Association Ireland.
In November 09 he set up Crossfire Theatre for which he has directed the hilarious Wonder of the World by David Lindsay-Abaire, and has written and directed the original play Frank & Catherine.
Irma McLoughlin - Development and Membership Manager
Irma began working in the arts with Storytellers Theatre Company, initially as an Assistant Producer and later as Company Manager/ Producer. This was followed by contract positions with The Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon as Artistic Programme Co-ordinator for the Informal European Theatre Meeting (IETM) and with Children's Books Ireland as Festival Co-ordinator for the Children's Book Festival. Irma then spent a year living in Northern Spain and returned to Ireland in 2004 and worked with Blue Raincoat and The Irish Times Business 2000 before joining Theatre Forum in October 2005.
