THISISPOPBABY
@thisispopbaby.bsky.social
Theatremakers, club creatives & good time gurls.
#PartySceneShow #IfTheseWigsCouldTalk #WakeTheShow
Funded by the Arts Council & Dublin City Council
campsite.bio/thisispopbaby
#PartySceneShow #IfTheseWigsCouldTalk #WakeTheShow
Funded by the Arts Council & Dublin City Council
campsite.bio/thisispopbaby
📢💥We’re thrilled to share that smash-hit WAKE lands on Australian shores this January, as a headline show in the Sydney Festival’s 50th Anniversary Season💥
Catch it at Carriageworks Bay 17 from 14-25 January 2026.
Tell your cousins, tell your mates - leave no diaspora unturned. www.waketheshow.com
Catch it at Carriageworks Bay 17 from 14-25 January 2026.
Tell your cousins, tell your mates - leave no diaspora unturned. www.waketheshow.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
📢💥We’re thrilled to share that smash-hit WAKE lands on Australian shores this January, as a headline show in the Sydney Festival’s 50th Anniversary Season💥
Catch it at Carriageworks Bay 17 from 14-25 January 2026.
Tell your cousins, tell your mates - leave no diaspora unturned. www.waketheshow.com
Catch it at Carriageworks Bay 17 from 14-25 January 2026.
Tell your cousins, tell your mates - leave no diaspora unturned. www.waketheshow.com
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Octupus Children @felispeaks.bsky.social @thisispopbaby.bsky.social is dripping in holy water, stardust and rhythm. ❤️
September 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Octupus Children @felispeaks.bsky.social @thisispopbaby.bsky.social is dripping in holy water, stardust and rhythm. ❤️
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"Octopus Children is... a poetic landscape, but it's a coming-of-age story, and it's a love letter to the Black, Irish and queer communities."
FELISPEAKS was on @rteradio1.bsky.social Out and Proud last Saturday – read/listen back here!
Coming soon to Dublin Fringe:
www.rte.ie/lifestyle/li...
FELISPEAKS was on @rteradio1.bsky.social Out and Proud last Saturday – read/listen back here!
Coming soon to Dublin Fringe:
www.rte.ie/lifestyle/li...
A love letter to the Black, Irish and queer communities
On this week's Out & Proud, poet, performer and playwright Felicia Olusanya aka Felispeaks sits down with Trevor Keegan.
www.rte.ie
August 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"Octopus Children is... a poetic landscape, but it's a coming-of-age story, and it's a love letter to the Black, Irish and queer communities."
FELISPEAKS was on @rteradio1.bsky.social Out and Proud last Saturday – read/listen back here!
Coming soon to Dublin Fringe:
www.rte.ie/lifestyle/li...
FELISPEAKS was on @rteradio1.bsky.social Out and Proud last Saturday – read/listen back here!
Coming soon to Dublin Fringe:
www.rte.ie/lifestyle/li...
"Octopus Children is... a poetic landscape, but it's a coming-of-age story, and it's a love letter to the Black, Irish and queer communities."
FELISPEAKS was on @rteradio1.bsky.social Out and Proud last Saturday – read/listen back here!
Coming soon to Dublin Fringe:
www.rte.ie/lifestyle/li...
FELISPEAKS was on @rteradio1.bsky.social Out and Proud last Saturday – read/listen back here!
Coming soon to Dublin Fringe:
www.rte.ie/lifestyle/li...
A love letter to the Black, Irish and queer communities
On this week's Out & Proud, poet, performer and playwright Felicia Olusanya aka Felispeaks sits down with Trevor Keegan.
www.rte.ie
August 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"Octopus Children is... a poetic landscape, but it's a coming-of-age story, and it's a love letter to the Black, Irish and queer communities."
FELISPEAKS was on @rteradio1.bsky.social Out and Proud last Saturday – read/listen back here!
Coming soon to Dublin Fringe:
www.rte.ie/lifestyle/li...
FELISPEAKS was on @rteradio1.bsky.social Out and Proud last Saturday – read/listen back here!
Coming soon to Dublin Fringe:
www.rte.ie/lifestyle/li...
A gorgeous feature interview with FELISPEAKS, covering all things Octopus Children, coming to Project Arts Centre as part of Dublin Fringe Festival this September. Tickets selling fast!
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
FeliSpeaks: Life as a ‘black, Irish, queer culchie’
Felicia Olusanya, aka FeliSpeaks, has created a show with thisispopbaby for the Dublin Fringe, exploring what it is like to grow up as a ‘queer black Irish midlands culchie’
www.irishtimes.com
July 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A gorgeous feature interview with FELISPEAKS, covering all things Octopus Children, coming to Project Arts Centre as part of Dublin Fringe Festival this September. Tickets selling fast!
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
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What a shot of sheer joy Riot is. Part comedy, aerial show, political pulpit, circus… and a mankini. Full of heart, energy and craft. Ends tomorrow - well done @pantibliss.bsky.social @thisispopbaby.bsky.social @emmetkirwan.bsky.social Lords of Strut, Omar Cortes Gonzalez, The Sirens, Up & Over It.
July 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
What a shot of sheer joy Riot is. Part comedy, aerial show, political pulpit, circus… and a mankini. Full of heart, energy and craft. Ends tomorrow - well done @pantibliss.bsky.social @thisispopbaby.bsky.social @emmetkirwan.bsky.social Lords of Strut, Omar Cortes Gonzalez, The Sirens, Up & Over It.
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Saw ‘Riot’ last night at Vicar Street. Wildly entertaining, a circus for grownups! Specifically Irish too. Highly irreverent, hugely relevant to our times. @pantibliss.bsky.social & @emmetkirwan.bsky.social on top form. Plus AMAZING sean nós dancers!
@thisispopbaby.bsky.social
@thisispopbaby.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Saw ‘Riot’ last night at Vicar Street. Wildly entertaining, a circus for grownups! Specifically Irish too. Highly irreverent, hugely relevant to our times. @pantibliss.bsky.social & @emmetkirwan.bsky.social on top form. Plus AMAZING sean nós dancers!
@thisispopbaby.bsky.social
@thisispopbaby.bsky.social
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Some of my images for the incredible show RIOT, made in collaboration with Niall Sweeney for @thisispopbaby.bsky.social. Extra tickets have just been released for the last two shows in Vicar Street, tonight and tomorrow - grab them if you can!
July 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Some of my images for the incredible show RIOT, made in collaboration with Niall Sweeney for @thisispopbaby.bsky.social. Extra tickets have just been released for the last two shows in Vicar Street, tonight and tomorrow - grab them if you can!
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Tonight I’ve been to #RIOTtheSHOW at Vicar Street by @thisispopbaby.bsky.social with an amazing team and @pantibliss.bsky.social behind it. Created & directed by Jennifer Jennings and @phillymcmahon.bsky.social. It was a blast, a must! If there’re any tickets left for tomorrow, don’t think twice 🪩
July 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Tonight I’ve been to #RIOTtheSHOW at Vicar Street by @thisispopbaby.bsky.social with an amazing team and @pantibliss.bsky.social behind it. Created & directed by Jennifer Jennings and @phillymcmahon.bsky.social. It was a blast, a must! If there’re any tickets left for tomorrow, don’t think twice 🪩
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Riot last night was fantastic.
Imagine pool noodle Jesus doing Cirque du Soleil to an 80’s soundtrack interrupted occasionally by a tracksuit top buzzed up Poet,
@emmetkirwan.bsky.social and all led brilliantly by incoming Irish president @pantibliss.bsky.social
@thisispopbaby.bsky.social
Imagine pool noodle Jesus doing Cirque du Soleil to an 80’s soundtrack interrupted occasionally by a tracksuit top buzzed up Poet,
@emmetkirwan.bsky.social and all led brilliantly by incoming Irish president @pantibliss.bsky.social
@thisispopbaby.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Riot last night was fantastic.
Imagine pool noodle Jesus doing Cirque du Soleil to an 80’s soundtrack interrupted occasionally by a tracksuit top buzzed up Poet,
@emmetkirwan.bsky.social and all led brilliantly by incoming Irish president @pantibliss.bsky.social
@thisispopbaby.bsky.social
Imagine pool noodle Jesus doing Cirque du Soleil to an 80’s soundtrack interrupted occasionally by a tracksuit top buzzed up Poet,
@emmetkirwan.bsky.social and all led brilliantly by incoming Irish president @pantibliss.bsky.social
@thisispopbaby.bsky.social
Announcing: OCTOPUS CHILDREN by FELISPEAKS atDublin Fringe Festival💥
Written by FELISPEAKS, Octopus Children follows Young Felicia coming of age as a queer, ‘Black Irish midlands culchie’ grappling with their identity, led by a wise guide: The Octopus.
Book now: www.fringefest.com/fest.../what...
Written by FELISPEAKS, Octopus Children follows Young Felicia coming of age as a queer, ‘Black Irish midlands culchie’ grappling with their identity, led by a wise guide: The Octopus.
Book now: www.fringefest.com/fest.../what...
July 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Announcing: OCTOPUS CHILDREN by FELISPEAKS atDublin Fringe Festival💥
Written by FELISPEAKS, Octopus Children follows Young Felicia coming of age as a queer, ‘Black Irish midlands culchie’ grappling with their identity, led by a wise guide: The Octopus.
Book now: www.fringefest.com/fest.../what...
Written by FELISPEAKS, Octopus Children follows Young Felicia coming of age as a queer, ‘Black Irish midlands culchie’ grappling with their identity, led by a wise guide: The Octopus.
Book now: www.fringefest.com/fest.../what...
Our @pantibliss.bsky.social in the Indo at the weekend!
Just two weeks til RIOT is back at Vicar St and tickets are getting scarce.
m.independent.ie/style/celebr...
Just two weeks til RIOT is back at Vicar St and tickets are getting scarce.
m.independent.ie/style/celebr...
Panti Bliss: ‘I don’t care if companies pull out of Pride parades. I am more concerned for the queer people who work in those companies’
Rory O’Neill, also known as Panti Bliss, is a drag queen and LGBTQ+ activist from Ballinrobe, Co Mayo. He owns Pantibar in Dublin city centre, and has been vocal about the conversation around HIV sin...
m.independent.ie
July 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Our @pantibliss.bsky.social in the Indo at the weekend!
Just two weeks til RIOT is back at Vicar St and tickets are getting scarce.
m.independent.ie/style/celebr...
Just two weeks til RIOT is back at Vicar St and tickets are getting scarce.
m.independent.ie/style/celebr...
Word's Out: Tickets are flying for RIOT at Vicar St, and our final best-priced tickets (€34.95 + fees –€41 on Ticketmaster) are about to sell out across all shows.
Premiere (49.95 +bf) & Ringside (59.95 + bf) are also selling fast💫
Grab yours before they're gone
www.ticketmaster.ie/riot-tickets...
Premiere (49.95 +bf) & Ringside (59.95 + bf) are also selling fast💫
Grab yours before they're gone
www.ticketmaster.ie/riot-tickets...
June 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Word's Out: Tickets are flying for RIOT at Vicar St, and our final best-priced tickets (€34.95 + fees –€41 on Ticketmaster) are about to sell out across all shows.
Premiere (49.95 +bf) & Ringside (59.95 + bf) are also selling fast💫
Grab yours before they're gone
www.ticketmaster.ie/riot-tickets...
Premiere (49.95 +bf) & Ringside (59.95 + bf) are also selling fast💫
Grab yours before they're gone
www.ticketmaster.ie/riot-tickets...
We've updated our list of funding & development opportunities for artists!
Feat. @axisballymun.bsky.social
@createireland.bsky.social Culture Ireland, Safe to Create, NASC touring network + more
If you know of an opp. we should include, ping us & we'll add it!
www.thisispopbaby.com/news/funding...
Feat. @axisballymun.bsky.social
@createireland.bsky.social Culture Ireland, Safe to Create, NASC touring network + more
If you know of an opp. we should include, ping us & we'll add it!
www.thisispopbaby.com/news/funding...
Funding & Development Opportunities for Theatre Artists — THISISPOPBABY
We know how tricky it can be to keep up with the ever-shifting world of funding and creative support—so we’ve done a bit of digital foraging on your behalf. Like good magpies, we’ve gathered links, tw...
www.thisispopbaby.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We've updated our list of funding & development opportunities for artists!
Feat. @axisballymun.bsky.social
@createireland.bsky.social Culture Ireland, Safe to Create, NASC touring network + more
If you know of an opp. we should include, ping us & we'll add it!
www.thisispopbaby.com/news/funding...
Feat. @axisballymun.bsky.social
@createireland.bsky.social Culture Ireland, Safe to Create, NASC touring network + more
If you know of an opp. we should include, ping us & we'll add it!
www.thisispopbaby.com/news/funding...
We're thrilled to announce that Clinch Wealth Management is proudly hosting #RIOTtheSHOW this July 💖
Clinch is a great supporter of the arts & Dublin's cultural life – we can't wait to work with the team on the return of our big, entertaining night out www.thisispopbaby.com/show-listing...
Clinch is a great supporter of the arts & Dublin's cultural life – we can't wait to work with the team on the return of our big, entertaining night out www.thisispopbaby.com/show-listing...
May 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
We're thrilled to announce that Clinch Wealth Management is proudly hosting #RIOTtheSHOW this July 💖
Clinch is a great supporter of the arts & Dublin's cultural life – we can't wait to work with the team on the return of our big, entertaining night out www.thisispopbaby.com/show-listing...
Clinch is a great supporter of the arts & Dublin's cultural life – we can't wait to work with the team on the return of our big, entertaining night out www.thisispopbaby.com/show-listing...
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#CIRCUS #REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ WAKE Factory International - Aviva Studios @thisispopbaby.bsky.social www.thereviewshub.com/wake-aviva-s... "celebrates not only the joy of life but its chaotic, anarchic nature… a reflection not so much of the sombre circle of life, more the giddy circus of life" #Manchester
WAKE - Aviva Studios, Manchester - The Reviews Hub
Creators and directors: Jennifer Jennings and Phillip McMahon with text from Carys D Coburn Choreographer: Philip Connaughton A wake is a ritual social gathering, held before a funeral, at which famil...
www.thereviewshub.com
April 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
#CIRCUS #REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ WAKE Factory International - Aviva Studios @thisispopbaby.bsky.social www.thereviewshub.com/wake-aviva-s... "celebrates not only the joy of life but its chaotic, anarchic nature… a reflection not so much of the sombre circle of life, more the giddy circus of life" #Manchester
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Can't think of a better way to celebrate the dead than at #WAKE @thisispopbaby.bsky.social Currently at Factory International
Can't think of a better way to celebrate the dead than at #WAKE @thisispopbaby.bsky.social Currently at Factory International
WAKE
WAKE ia an adrenalin filled celebration by Dublin based company ThisIsPopBaby. A wild trip to a cèilidh that must surely be fuelled on mind bending Irish moonshine.
liveartalive.com
April 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
liveartalive.com/2025/04/19/w...
Can't think of a better way to celebrate the dead than at #WAKE @thisispopbaby.bsky.social Currently at Factory International
Can't think of a better way to celebrate the dead than at #WAKE @thisispopbaby.bsky.social Currently at Factory International
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Fantastic review of @thisispopbaby.bsky.social’s Wake on the West End
Wake review – Irish dance takes a raucous, pole-dancing rollercoaster ride
Gleefully exploding traditional funeral rites, Thisispopbaby deploy styles from stepdance to pole dance to upend expectations of Irish culture
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Fantastic review of @thisispopbaby.bsky.social’s Wake on the West End
📢WAKE goes to Manchester!🌟
We are delighted to announce that our smash hit show WAKE will show at Manchester's incredible Aviva Studios, the home of Factory International, from 17-21 April 2025.
Generously supported by Culture Ireland
Tickets on sale now: waketheshow.com
We are delighted to announce that our smash hit show WAKE will show at Manchester's incredible Aviva Studios, the home of Factory International, from 17-21 April 2025.
Generously supported by Culture Ireland
Tickets on sale now: waketheshow.com
WAKE
waketheshow.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
📢WAKE goes to Manchester!🌟
We are delighted to announce that our smash hit show WAKE will show at Manchester's incredible Aviva Studios, the home of Factory International, from 17-21 April 2025.
Generously supported by Culture Ireland
Tickets on sale now: waketheshow.com
We are delighted to announce that our smash hit show WAKE will show at Manchester's incredible Aviva Studios, the home of Factory International, from 17-21 April 2025.
Generously supported by Culture Ireland
Tickets on sale now: waketheshow.com
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If you've missed this in the past, this is your chance. You won't regret it.
📢NEWS: The show that stole the hearts and blew the minds of a nation is back!
Our all-star RIOT squad is reforming for four glittering nights on 17-20 July in Vicar Street ⚡️❤️🔥
Pre-Sale for all subscribers from 8.30am this Friday 6 Dec: mailchi.mp/17a6c27163f6...
#RIOTtheShow
Our all-star RIOT squad is reforming for four glittering nights on 17-20 July in Vicar Street ⚡️❤️🔥
Pre-Sale for all subscribers from 8.30am this Friday 6 Dec: mailchi.mp/17a6c27163f6...
#RIOTtheShow
December 4, 2024 at 6:21 PM
If you've missed this in the past, this is your chance. You won't regret it.
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Can’t believe we’re going to get the chance to do it again
On sale now: RIOT.
The show that stole the hearts and blew the minds of a nation returns to Vicar Street in July 2025.
Four nights only – book now: thisispopbaby.com/book-now/
The show that stole the hearts and blew the minds of a nation returns to Vicar Street in July 2025.
Four nights only – book now: thisispopbaby.com/book-now/
December 9, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Can’t believe we’re going to get the chance to do it again
On sale now: RIOT.
The show that stole the hearts and blew the minds of a nation returns to Vicar Street in July 2025.
Four nights only – book now: thisispopbaby.com/book-now/
The show that stole the hearts and blew the minds of a nation returns to Vicar Street in July 2025.
Four nights only – book now: thisispopbaby.com/book-now/
December 6, 2024 at 4:08 PM
On sale now: RIOT.
The show that stole the hearts and blew the minds of a nation returns to Vicar Street in July 2025.
Four nights only – book now: thisispopbaby.com/book-now/
The show that stole the hearts and blew the minds of a nation returns to Vicar Street in July 2025.
Four nights only – book now: thisispopbaby.com/book-now/
⚡️RIOT 2025 is on sale NOW.⚡️
Four nights only at Vicar Street - 17-20 July.
Don't miss the legend that is RIOT – book now:
thisispopbaby.com/book-now/
Four nights only at Vicar Street - 17-20 July.
Don't miss the legend that is RIOT – book now:
thisispopbaby.com/book-now/
December 6, 2024 at 12:36 PM
⚡️RIOT 2025 is on sale NOW.⚡️
Four nights only at Vicar Street - 17-20 July.
Don't miss the legend that is RIOT – book now:
thisispopbaby.com/book-now/
Four nights only at Vicar Street - 17-20 July.
Don't miss the legend that is RIOT – book now:
thisispopbaby.com/book-now/
📢NEWS: The show that stole the hearts and blew the minds of a nation is back!
Our all-star RIOT squad is reforming for four glittering nights on 17-20 July in Vicar Street ⚡️❤️🔥
Pre-Sale for all subscribers from 8.30am this Friday 6 Dec: mailchi.mp/17a6c27163f6...
#RIOTtheShow
Our all-star RIOT squad is reforming for four glittering nights on 17-20 July in Vicar Street ⚡️❤️🔥
Pre-Sale for all subscribers from 8.30am this Friday 6 Dec: mailchi.mp/17a6c27163f6...
#RIOTtheShow
December 3, 2024 at 6:36 PM
📢NEWS: The show that stole the hearts and blew the minds of a nation is back!
Our all-star RIOT squad is reforming for four glittering nights on 17-20 July in Vicar Street ⚡️❤️🔥
Pre-Sale for all subscribers from 8.30am this Friday 6 Dec: mailchi.mp/17a6c27163f6...
#RIOTtheShow
Our all-star RIOT squad is reforming for four glittering nights on 17-20 July in Vicar Street ⚡️❤️🔥
Pre-Sale for all subscribers from 8.30am this Friday 6 Dec: mailchi.mp/17a6c27163f6...
#RIOTtheShow
We meet at the barricades once again. Dispatch coming soon.
December 2, 2024 at 2:45 PM
We meet at the barricades once again. Dispatch coming soon.