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Erica is from County Limerick, Ireland. She holds a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an MFA in Playwriting from The Lir Academy. While in college, she wrote her first play called Bunk which won the Irish Student Drama Award for Best New Writing. She is a previous member of the Soho Theatre Young Writers Group, Lyric New Playwright’s Programme and the Six in the Attic programme at Irish Theatre Institute. In 2018, her play; The Cat’s Mother, toured to London, Edinburgh and Dublin Fringe where it won the Fishamble Award for Best New Writing and was subsequently nominated for the Stewart Parker Trust Award. In 2019, she was the Channel 4 Writer-in-Residence at The Lyric Theatre in Belfast where her second play All Mod Cons premiered. The new play she wrote while on this residency won the Sonia Friedman Award. Her play The Loved Ones premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival 2023 in a co-production between Rough Magic and The Gate Theatre to critical acclaim. It was remounted in 2025 and went on an Irish national tour. In 2024, she wrote a play for young audiences for The Abbey Theatre called In Real Life which has been performed across many primary and secondary schools around Ireland. It is currently touring again this May. The Loved Ones has been recently produced in Buffalo at the Irish Classical Theatre Company and is currently about to be produced at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York. Erica currently has a residency at the National Theatre Studio in London.

Annabelle is an award winning theatre director and artistic director of Hatch Theatre Company. Her freelance work includes: Her Father’s Voice (Lovano Productions at DTF) The Sugar Wife, The Wake, Hedda Gabler, Major Barbara, The House (Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Director) and Pygmalion (The Abbey); Girl On An Altar (The Kiln/The Abbey); Ravens (Hampstead Theatre); Our New Girl, Look Back in Anger, The Vortex (Gate Theatre); Evening Train (The Everyman); Asking For It (Landmark Productions, The Everyman, The Gaiety, Birmingham Rep.); Crestfall, Helen and I (Druid); A Number, Blue/Orange (The Peacock); Dancing at Lughnasa (Lyric Theatre, Belfast and Gaiety Theatre, DTF). Opera credits include Beethoven’s Fidelio for Irish National Opera (The Gaiety); Dubliners in an adaptation by Arthur Riordan (Wexford Opera Festival), both nominated for TITTA for best opera production. Hatch’s recent productions include the Irish premiere of Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill in a co-production with The Everyman for Cork Midsummer Festival(CMF) and the world premieres of Coetzee’s The Jesus Trilogy in an adaptation by Eoghan Quinn in collaboration with Comyn for Dublin Theatre Festival(DTF); colic by Eoghan Quinn for DTF at Pavilion Theatre; To The Lighthouse in an adaptation by Marina Carr (in a co-production with The Everyman, Pavilion Theatre and CMF); The Talk Of The Town by Emma Donoghue (in a co-production with Landmark and DTF).