Peter Hussey

Peter Hussey

Peter Hussey is Artistic Director of Crooked House Theatre Company and Kildare Youth Theatre.  Crooked House produces new work, often in collaboration with international partners.  Peter is a writer, director and drama facilitator.  He lectures in Applied Theatre for NUI Maynooth.  He is an arts consultant, and a trainer in education and youth arts, having worked in Ireland and abroad for over 20 years.

Peter has developed and delivered training programmes in theatre-based methods of development to a wide range of organisations and groups, and is responsible for the country’s first undergraduate programme in Directing for Theatre at NUIM.  He was producer of the annual Connections Festival in Ireland for the National Theatre in London, and is founder of the annual Human Rights Youth Theatre Festival held every year in Newbridge.  His recent work has been developing projects of work with communities in Kildare and in Dublin that use theatre methods as tools for suicide prevention, especially with the 17 to 37 age group.

Peter is also current Artistic Director of Kildare Youth Theatre. Crooked House Theatre Company is based in Newbridge, County Kildare.  While it is a professional theatre company staging new and international collaborations, Crooked House also offers a popular training programme uniquely developed for the Irish community, voluntary and educational sectors.  The programme uses theatre-based methods of working with groups to achieve social, personal and political development. The company’s work shares common aims and methodologies with that of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed.  Crooked House has worked with most state, non-governmental, and educational agencies in Ireland since 1993.  1 Main Street, Newbridge, County Kildare, Telephone: 045 446612, Mobile: 087 2759420, info@crookedhouse.ie, www.crookedhouse.ie.