Board & Staff

Governance

With the continuous support of An Chomhairle Ealíon and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland over the past twenty-five years and the more recent support from County Councils through Regional Bursary Schemes, Irelands premiere creative resourse The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig provides living proof of the strength of the artistic community on this island, and it remains a flag ship project and shining example of cross-border co-operation. The nine-member Board of the Centre represents a broad range of skills, experience and expertise with regional and gender balance.

Brian Garret (Chair)

Deputy County Court Judge. He is Chairman of the Northern Ireland Teachers Salary and Conditions of Service Committee and a Chairman of the Social Security Appeals Tribunals; former Deputy Chairman for the Northern Ireland Independent Commission for Police Complaints and a member of the Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights.

Michael Alcorn

Is a composer and is particularly active as a promoter of new music technologies. He was appointed director of SARC, the Sonic Arts Research Centre based at Queens University, Belfast, in 2001. He has been a visiting composer at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University, and at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. His compositional activities range from music for conventional instruments to works for live or taped electro-acoustic performance.

Suzanna Crampton

Suzanna has exhibited both documentary and abstract photographs in the USA, Ireland and England. While in the USA she was a member of the Mcguffey Art Centre in Charlottesville, Virginia. She taught photography at the Grennan Craft School, Thomastown, County Kilkenny and at the Ormond College art foundation course in Kilkenny City. She still teaches photography in adult education courses in Kilkenny City.

Peter Fallon

Poet and member of Aosdána who founded The Gallery Press which has published more than four hundred books of poems and plays by the country's finest established and emerging authors and which is recognized as Ireland's pre-eminent literary publishing house.

Barbara Sweetman FitzGerald

Director of Irish Association for Cultural, Economic and Social Affairs; Trustee of Michael Sweetman Trust and a prominent figure over the years on North-South co-operation and collaboration.

Barbara Freeman

Painter, printmaker, sculptor and installation artist. Recently she has collaborated with contemporary composers developing ways to transpose their musical structures into visual structures in colour and spaces.

Petria McDonnell

Is a Circuit Court Judge and a former Senior Partner with McCann Fitzgerald and former President of the Irish Maritime Law Association. During her time with McCann Fitzgerald she was key to the purchase and development of their important collection of Irish contemporary art. Petria is also a patron of Opera Theatre Ireland.

Marcus Patton

Marcus Patton is a qualified architect and artist. He studied urban design and worked as a town planner. He is Director of HEARTH Housing Association. He has served as a council member of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects and was first convenor of its conservation committee. He has also served as committee member of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society..

Staff

Patricia Donlon Director (resident)
Mary Clerkin Finance Officer
Ingrid Adams Resources Manager

Lavina McAdoo Chef
Teresa Rudden Housekeeper
Esther Hall Housekeeper
Mary-Alice Lynch Housekeeper
Marcella Leonard Occasional Cook
Rosemarie Connolly Occasional Cook
Walter Wright Occasional Cook
Geraldine Sheerin Organic Gardener
Paddy McCabe Estate Manager