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

Conference Dinner