Programme
Sunday 23rd April
Monday 24th April
Tuesday 25th April
Wednesday 26th April
09:30
Registration
10:00 - 10:15
Welcome &
Practicalities
10:15 – 11:15
Jill Condon – Keynote
“From Writers’ Room to the Classroom”
11:45 – 12:30
Ted Wilkes –
“Funny That –(re)Structuring the Modern Comedy”
12:30 – 13:15
Fergal Costello –
Graduate Insight
14:15 – 15:00
Ben Mallaby –
“Final Take – Improvisation in Comedy”
15:00 – 15:45
Ailish McImeel
(Deadpan Pictures) and Rebecca Flanagan (Treasure Entertainment) –
Industry Focus
16:00 – 17:00
Sarah Gunn –
Film EU Pilot Case Study
09:45 – 10:15
Peter Evers – Satire
10:15 – 10:45
Rory Connolly –
“Hack your Brain and
Become Funnier”
10:45 – 11:30
Possidónio Cachapa &
Jorge Paixão da Costa –
“The Structure of Comedy”
12:00 – 13:00
Workshops
Ted Wilkes – (re)Structuring Modern Comedy
Jill Condon – Writers Room
14:00 – 15:00
Workshops
Ben Mallaby – Improvisation
Rory Connolly –
The Anatomy of a Joke
15:30 – 16:30
20:00
09:45 – 10:15
Róbert Šveda
10:15 – 10:45
Suzanne Regan –
“The Whole World is Watching”
11:15 – 11:45 Break
11:30 – 12:00 Break
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00
Lena Byrne & Shane Langan (Sow You Entertainment) - Animation Roundtable
12:00 – 13:00
Paddy Breathnach (director) & Emma Norton (producer) –Case Study “The Dry”
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch & Farewells
15:45 – 16:00 Break
15:00 – 15:15 Break
19:00
Welcome Meet-up –
Walter’s Dun Laoghaire
Workshops
Jill Condon – Writer’s Room
Rory Connolly –
The Anatomy of a Joke
16:30 – 17:30
Ben Mallaby – Improvisation
Ted Wilkes – (re)Structuring the Modern Comedy