Meet The Team
Sharon Devlin
Creative Director
Sharon Devlin began her long association with TCA as an artist mentor. She went on to co-found the long term TCA core project DoubleTAKE Supported Arts Studio in 2010 and served as its Studio Co-Ordinator until 2024, when she took over as Creative Director of TCA. Sharon is a native of Tallaght and brings great experience to the role. She is happy to be working with a very strong and gifted core team and is passionate about participatory arts, building community, and forming connection through creativity.
Jennifer Webster
Creative Producer
Jennifer Webster has worked as an Associate Artist with TCA for over twelve years. From 2021-23 she coordinated Creative Places Mac Uíllíam research project award. She conceived and directed ACT UP! Festival of theatre directed/performed by young people. Her work as producer/coordinator includes ‘As If By Chance’, ‘Cessair’, ‘SoloSIRENs Festival’, ‘Where in this World’, ‘The Great Rope of Tallaght’, ‘Gaza Monologues’, ‘Aeridheacht -Taking the Air’, and ‘Creative Campus’. She has also produced international exchanges for young people from Dublin with Masters School, New York and OTeatrao, Portugal. For the Arts Council, she produced ‘Shukuma Mzansi’, a visit of South African participatory theatremakers to Ireland in 2018. In 2019, she was a delegate on Voices of Culture: Gender Equality with the European Commission. She is a theatre artist with ‘Doors to Elsewhere’, a theatre ensemble for adults who live with a disability and producer of ‘SoloSIRENs’, – a theatre making and producing collective based in Tallaght and in residence at the Civic.
Sharon Doyle
Office Manager
Sharon Doyle is a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist, she has worked in the wider Tallaght community for the past 25 years. She worked as a counsellor for 6 years with families affected by addiction and then went on to work in community development for 12 years also as a support worker for 3 years. She joined TCA in early 2018. Sharon joined the Active Research project with Creative Places Mac Uíllíam in 2021 and is now the Outreach Production Assistant for Creative Places Mac Uíllíam. She has worked for TCA for the past six years in Arts and Engagement.
Sailí Áine Ní Mhurchú
Production Assistant
Sailí Áine Ní Mhurchú is a freelance performer and artist. A graduate of TUD Conservatoire Drama Performance bachelor’s degree, Sailí Áine is also a qualified drama facilitator, creating devised pieces with teenagers and young adults. She is fluent in Irish, exploring bi-lingual and multi-lingual theatre. She has experience in stage management, organising workshops and outdoor events. Currently working as a production assistant for Creative Places MacUíllíam with Tallaght Community Arts, Sailí Áine has also worked as cast support and social media manager of Sightless Cinema theatre company on their national tour of ‘In The Dark’. A live audio play highlighting and exploring true stories of the ensemble living with limited sight and blindness.
Jack Jones
Development Officer
Jack Jones is a politics and international relations student with his primary background in the arts with a certain focus on community engagement, youth empowerment and intercultural dialogue. Jack has been working with TCA from the age of 8 where he has spent a lot of time working with people with intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities, different backgrounds and people of all ages in theatre using various mediums of communication, from art, sport, movement and vocally. This both being on a weekly class level and a community festival scale.
Dan Devlin
Graphic Artist
Dan Devlin is a freelance graphic artist and musician. He has more than twenty years of experience in the graphic design industry, working as both an in-house designer and as an agency freelancer. Dan began working with TCA in 2023, combining his graphics skills and musicianship to create engaging, thought-provoking art in the form of short films and social media motion graphics, along with an array of other print and digital design work for various TCA projects.
Gary O’Connor
Technical Coordinator
After a career in sheet metal fabrication for 40 years, Gary O’Connor has now become a set builder and technical coordinator for community and outdoor theatre events. Coming on to the Light Up Mac Uíllíam project, Gary was trained by Tom Meskall in sculptural lantern design and creation.
Conor Keegan
Photographer
Conor Keegan is a graduate of Media Production and Digital Arts, specializing in photography. His experience began with photographing weddings and other events for his father’s business, and he has since expanded his skills across various mediums during his time in college. Conor first joined TCA as the photographer for DoubleTAKE’s “We Will Not Sit Down and Be Quiet” project, where he created portraits of all the advocates involved. He now works at TCA, documenting their work and events throughout the year. He plays an active role in all of their events, aiming to showcase the important work being done. His portfolio, featuring both professional and personal work, can be found on his website, conamonsta.com
Leo Kearney
Videographer
Leo Kearney is the in-house videographer at TCA. He joined the team in 2024 having previously worked with TCA on various projects as a freelance film maker and videographer. Leo films events, workshops and classes for social media and the website. He has worked on short films and documentary style films in the past and is super excited to keep working with TCA into the future.