{"id":203313,"date":"2026-04-20T13:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203313\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:51:06","slug":"irish-rep-fishamble-and-the-apollo-reveal-transatlantic-commissions-program-2026-2027-cohort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203313\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rep, Fishamble, and The Apollo Reveal Transatlantic Commissions Program 2026\u20132027 Cohort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish\u00a0Repertory Theatre and Fishamble&#8217;s Transatlantic Commissions Program\u2014now partnering with <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/the-apollo-producer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Apollo<\/a>\u00a0Theatre\u2014has revealed its\u00a02026\u20132027 cohort.\u00a0The program, which launched in 2022, will now partner with the historic Harlem theatre to commission Black Irish writers and artists of color to develop work. <\/p>\n<p>The Transatlantic Commissions Program was founded to address historical inequities in theatre. The two companies will commission four Black Irish artists and artists of color to create one full-length play, each under the mentorship of Kelly Girod\u2014playwright, producer, and director of new works at the Apollo\u2014with\u00a0additional dramaturgical support provided by\u00a0Gavin Kostick, literary manager\u00a0at Fishamble; and Nicola Murphy Dubey, director of new play development at Irish Repertory Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s cohort will include\u00a0Tish\u00e9 Fatunbi, Dafe Orugbo,\u00a0Esosa Ighodaro, and Se\u00e1n Gallen.\u00a0The program, which began this month, will culminate in public staged readings in Dublin and New York next year.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/irishrep.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IrishRep.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish\u00a0Repertory Theatre and Fishamble&#8217;s Transatlantic Commissions Program\u2014now partnering with The Apollo\u00a0Theatre\u2014has revealed its\u00a02026\u20132027 cohort.\u00a0The program, which launched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-203313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}