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Sarah Durcan was a lead organiser of the #WakingTheFeminists campaign. She is the Executive Director of Science Gallery International, and has served on several non-profit boards. She co-authored Five Years On – Gender in Irish Theatre, An Interim View (2020) and a chapter contribution in Queering Science Communication (2023).
Lian Bell was Campaign Director of #WakingTheFeminists. She is an artist who works across art forms, with a practice that spans scenography, visual art, and social activism. For over 25 years she has worked with some of the most significant arts organisations and contemporary performance makers in Ireland.
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Great theatre changes the atmosphere in the room and reshapes how we see our lives. Great campaigning changes our vision of society and reshapes our future.
When the Abbey Theatre’s 2016 centenary programme featured a meagre number of women artists, it sparked a nationwide movement. Outrage on social media rapidly evolved into an award-winning year-long campaign that transformed the Irish theatre landscape – and reverberated far beyond.
