Sharon Mcardle

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Sharon Mc Ardle  BSc. BA. LGSM. PgDip. MSt.
Lecturer in Education- Drama Education in the School of Arts Education and Movement. 
Sharon Mc Ardle trained as an Actor-Musician at Rose Bruford College, UK and then as a Speech and Drama teacher at the Guildhall College of Music and Drama, London. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma and a Master of Studies in Drama in Education from Trinity College Dublin. 

Committees

Committee Function From / To
An Tain Arts Centre http://antain.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ATAC_Biographies_20190125.pdf 27/11/2018 -

Creative Outputs

Year Title Type
2017 An Unrepentant Propagandist Play
2016 'An Easter Service' - 1916 Louth Play
2020 Dorothy Macardle Archive and Performance project. Play
2017 Bront?: A Solo Portrait of Charlotte Bront? By William Luce. Play
2018 A musical tribute to Jonathan Swift Theme Play
2019 Dorothy Macardle Archive and Performance project. Fiction

Enterprise Engagement

Year Engagement Type Client Description
2017 Invited talk/presentation Arts in Education Portal National Day 2017 The Tempest: An Exploration of Identity through Participatory Arts Practice. In collaboration with Louisa Goss, Arts Educator in the Dept. of Humanities at DkIT and Sandy Sneddon, Drama Co-ordinator of RehabCare Dundalk’s Encore Productions.
2016 Other Anaverna Productions One-woman show: Bront?: A Solo Portrait of Charlotte Bront?, By William Luce. Commissioned by Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council to commemorate the bicentennial of the birth of the author of Jane Eyre. Performed by Sharon Mc Ardle. Directed by Declan Gorman. Costumes by Sinead Roberts .Produced by Vere Lenox-Conyngham, Anaverna.
2011 Other St Vincent De Paul, NT, Australia. Long Grass Lounge: Connecting Homelessness (Touring Multi- Arts Venue) 2011 St Vincent De Paul, NT, Australia. A multi-arts initiative- a touring Arts Venue, aimed to encourage work of artists, musicians, performers and writers from marginalised communities, by providing them with a space to host their work. The Lounge itself was an installation piece, created by members of the Aboriginal, homeless community and local schools and was representative of the ingenuity that lies at the heart of necessity. The overall aim was to provide a space, which would stimulate dialogue amongst guests and encourage a break down in any misconceptions of homelessness as well as demonstrate positive ways in which homeless people can make a living through the arts. Long Grass lounge was invited to many fundraising events and festivals around NT. Role: Community Arts Co- ordinator.
2013 Consultancy Turning the Curve Project: EU INTERREG IVA program. Turning the Curve Project (Performance and Project Documentation) EU INTERREG IVA program. Health Service Executive. Health and Social Care Board. Public Health agency in NI. The project supports the needs of children with Autism and their families through the provision of specific family support programs across the border region. Role: Theatre Director.
2014 Other Louth Craftmark TSTC Project. EU Peace III Program & Louth Peace and Reconciliation Partnership. Ethnic Women's Cooking and Stories Through Craft (Community Banquet, Documentary film & Cookery Book) A project which brought women of different nationalities together to cook and learn how to make ceramics and in the process also learn about each other’s cultures and stories around culinary traditions. Role: Story facilitator in collaboration with Ceramics Artist and Documentary filmmaker.
2014 Other Speech and Drama Teachers of Ireland ‘Drama and the Inclusive Classroom’. A Workshop presented at the Speech and Drama Teachers of Ireland Summer Workshop, Talbot Hotel, Stillorgan, Dublin, September 7th.
2018 Invited talk/presentation Social Care Ireland Conference Mc Ardle, S. Goss, L. & Sneddon, S. (2018) The Tempest: Social Care Ireland Conference, ‘Working with abilities and strengths’, Radisson, Athlone. Collaboration DCU, DkIT and Rehab Care Dundalk.
2013 Consultancy Community and Good Relations Program - International fund for Ireland 2013 MuPaPu (Film Documentation) Showcased at Ards Puppet Festival, Co. Down. Puppet project devised by Families from marginalised communities. Role: Story facilitator in collaboration with Puppet Maker, Composer, Tai Chi Master & Film Maker.
2016 Invited talk/presentation National Childhood Network, Presented Creative Arts Workshop at the National Childhood Network, All Ireland Conference: Learning through the Arts in Early Childhood. 22nd October 2016, Hudson Bay, Athlone.
March 2017 Other Dorothy Macardle ‘An Unrepentant Propagandist’ Dorothy Macardle ‘An Unrepentant Propagandist’ A weekend of Words, Music and Drama celebrating the life, works and values of Dorothy Macardle (1889-1958). Devised by Constance Short. Conference Consultant: Peter Berresford Ellis. Presented a reading from Dorothy Mcardle’s literature. Presented a staged reading of a one-act play by Dorothy Mcardle, specially transcribed from Abbey manuscript archives for this event. Directed by Declan Gorman.
2013 Other Louth Craftmark TSTC Project. EU Peace III Program & Louth Peace and Reconciliation Partnership. Traveller Stories Through Craft (Public Art Exhibition, Film documentation and E- Book) Louth Craftmark TSTC Project. EU Peace III Program & Louth Peace and Reconciliation Partnership. Bringing traveler women together in a craft making process as a means of expressing their identity and promoting community integration and mutual understanding. Role: Story facilitator in collaboration with Ceramics Artist and Documentary filmmaker

Outreach Activities

Year Engagement Type Organisation Description
Other Vantastival Music Festival Vantastival Music Festival 2016-2019 Beaulieu House STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH Artistic Co-ordinator for Children’s area at Vantastival Festival. Approx. Multi arts events over the weekend catering for 500 Families. Students volunteers & facilitators from DCU.
Other Failte Isteach Program, Dundalk. Failte Isteach Program, Dundalk. Community project involving volunteers welcoming migrants through conversational English Classes.
DCU in the Community North East Recovery College, Healthy Living Centre, DCU School of Nursing and Human Sciences & DkIT Creativity Program. Coming Back to Center An Exploration through Tai Chi, Movement and Sound. Sharon Mc Ardle as Drama Facilitator & Director. Kalichi Donahue as Tai Chi Movement and Sound facilitator.
Other St Brigids Special Needs NS, Dundalk. St Brigids Special Needs NS Film Project, Dundalk. Dream Box. Sharon Mc Ardle as Drama Facilitator & Director. Kalichi Donahue as Tai Chi Movement and Sound facilitator. Elaine Kelly as Visual Artist & Puppet maker. Film Maker Sean Mc Mahon, SNA and Class teachers from St Brigids Primary School. L2LP class.

Research Interests


Socially Engaged Arts Practice
Performance Pedagogy
Community Arts
Theatre for Young Audiences
Children’s Arts Festivals and Cultural Diversity
Immersive Theatre 

Research Projects

Title Role Description Start date End date
Dorothy Macardle Archive and Performance project. Performer - researcher 19/05/2021 31/12/2021
Digital Archive Exhibition Creator 26/03/2021 24/09/2021
Prison Notebooks- The Gaol Journals of Revolutionary Dorothy Macardle Performer - Co-writer 21/07/2020 15/10/2021
Prison Notebooks- The Gaol Journals of Revolutionary Dorothy Macardle Performer - Co-writer 12/03/2020 15/10/2021
Journal Transcription Transcriber 24/02/2020 26/07/2021
The interplay between historical research and artistic processes in reimagining Dorothy Macardle. PhD Student : Registered DCA60 - PhD-track English PhD through Creative Practice, Dublin City University 29/04/2019
Dorothy Macardle Archive project The Gaol Journals of Dorothy Macardle. Sharon Mc Ardle and Tom Muckian as Literary Advisor, Roe River Books. 01/10/2018 31/12/2018
An Unrepentant Propagandist Collaborate with writer/director Declan Gorman to create a script for an impressionist solo performance on life, writings & legacy of revolutionary & humanitarian Dorothy Macardle. 29/05/2018 31/12/2019
William Shakespeare's, The Tempest: An Exploration of Identity through Participatory Arts Practice Drama Facilitator 28/04/2018 28/04/2018

Internal Collaborators

Type Name Company Role
Internal Annie ? Breacháin, Paula Murphy, Una McCabe DCU

External Collaborators

Type Name Company Role
External Louisa Goss: Arts Educator Department of Humanities, Dundalk Institute of Technology Academic

Teaching Interests

Drama Education
Process Drama 
Devised Theatre 
Theatre of the Oppressed   
Socially Engaged Theatre 
Drama and Children's RIghts Education 

Modules Coordinated

Term Title Subject
2022 Drama & Physical Education ED2019
2022 Drama and Physical Education ED1015
2022 The Drama Continuum: From Make Believe Play AP206