Interview: Gavin Quinn

Gavin Quinn founded Pan Pan Theatre Company in 1991 with Aedín Cosgrove and they are joint artistic directors of the Company. Both of them had studied drama at Trinity College Dublin. Quinn has directed all Pan Pan Theatre productions. For more information on Pan Pan Theatre’s productions, including their Beckett productions (All That Fall, Embers, Quad, and Cascando) see Pan Pan’s archive on their website: http://panpantheatre.com/archive/ [accessed 8 August 2018]. Outside of his work with Pan Pan, Gavin has directed for opera, including The 4 Note Opera (Tom Johnson, 2000), The Magic Flute, Hamelin (2003) and Don Giovanni (2016) for OTC, The Abduction from the Seraglio for ETO (Hackney Empire, London 2007), and Così Fan Tutte for Opera Ireland (2007). In 2015 Gavin made his directing debut at the Abbey Theatre with Midsummer’s Night Dream. Gavin is also a board member of the Irish Theatre Institute.