From Here On

Malachy supported the producing, and co-lead on marketing for Gecko’s collaboration with Good Chance, From Here On, which had performances in London, Harwich, The Hague, Berlin, and a response film in Dover. From Here On was an outdoor physical theatre piece which marked the 85th anniversary of the Kindertransport, when nearly 10,000 Jewish children were given safe passage to the UK from Nazi-occupied Europe. Featuring over 200 young people based across each of the performance locations, the piece reached over 6400 audience members across Europe, and its legacy projects including film screenings and exhibitions of Malachy’s production photography are ongoing.

Malachy also lead on content creation for From Here On, including designing the poster artwork and capturing production photography, behind the scenes photography, video for teasers and trailers, and he filmed and edited the Dover response film.

“A pulsing, heart-wrenching, ultimately hopeful piece of physical theatre.” – ★★★★ The Stage

Malachy also supported many other projects during his time at Gecko, including producing an R&D to remount a previous Gecko production in 2023, line-producing two collaborations with directors Smith & Lyall to create live music visuals for shows at the Las Vegas Sphere, and leading on marketing and content creation for Gecko’s associate show, The Rescue.

Norfolk and Norwich Festival

Prior to his role at Gecko, Malachy was the Production and Programme Assistant at Norfolk and Norwich Festival, working on both their 2021 and 2022 festivals. In 2021, Malachy managed logistics across the festival including booking travel & accommodation, and co-ordinated hospitality for all festival artists, as well as providing general production support for the team. For NNF’s 250th anniversary festival in 2022, Malachy was the project manager for several exciting, large-scale projects, as well as providing key support for other festival projects. The projects that Malachy took a lead on were varied and came with wide-ranging responsibilities and challenges:

Unfurl

Unfurl by Air Giants was an interactive installation consisting of several large inflatable robots that used sensors and AI to move and interact with audiences in the space. Over 2000 people experienced the work over a weekend, making it a hugely popular event for the festival. Malachy also worked with Air Giants to implement a ‘relaxed hour’ where disabled audience members could come and experience the work before it opened to the general public.

Peaceophobia

Fuel Theatre and Common Wealth’s Peaceophobia was a site-specific piece of theatre that took place in a multi-storey car park. Malachy lead on the project for the festival which involved collaborating with Norwich City Council to locate and secure a suitable car park for the piece, then working closely with NCC, Fuel and NNF’s production teams to facilitate getting the show into the space. Malachy was then on the ground during the get-in to support Fuel’s technical team, as well as supporting the performances by managing a group of volunteers and event staff to ensure the smooth running of each show.

Signal On Sea

Malachy project managed Strijbos Van Rijswijk’s Signal on Sea. Jeroen Strijbos and Rob van Rijswijk are sound artists from The Netherlands who have been performing all over the world for more than 10 years, immersing well known places in sounds and music. For Norfolk & Norwich Festival, they composed a piece to be played via 20 long-throw speakers, transforming a large stretch of Great Yarmouth beach. On the final two days of the festival, two site-specific performances accompanied the installation where live sopranos provided a captivating promenade performance within the installation.

Malachy worked closely with Great Yarmouth Borough Council and the artists to prepare for the installation and performances, as well as with the RSPB and Natural England to ensure that it didn’t disrupt the surrounding natural habitats. He facilitated site visits and an R&D week for the artists in Great Yarmouth where they spent time developing the work. Malachy also worked with the council to ensure there was a beach wheelchair on site at all times to make the piece accessible for wheelchair users.

The Garden Party

Malachy’s final project was the Garden Party, a mini-festival over a weekend which showcased 8 new Without Walls shows. The shows ranged from theatre and circus, to dance and even an escape room, and they took place in a city park alongside street food vendors and workshops for families. Malachy oversaw the Garden Party, working with Norwich City Council, the Festival’s technical team, the artists and producers, food vendors and workshop providers to deliver the event to record numbers of people. Malachy lead on the accessibility of the Garden Party, working with the companies to encourage them to consider access provision within their piece, and then organising provision such as BSL interpretation where needed.

Rider Spoke

In 2021 Malachy line-produced a tour of Blast Theory’s Rider Spoke as part of Norfolk County Council’s initiative to boost local tourism to the North Norfolk coast. Rider Spoke is a project by Blast Theory which mixes art, theatre and location-based technologies. It invites audiences to cycle through the streets of a town, guided by a smart phone attached to their bicycle. They search for a hiding place where they record a short message, and then they search for the hiding places of others.

Working in partnership with GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn; Sheringham Little Theatre; and St Georges Theatre, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and Norwich Festival presented Rider Spoke over six weekends in October and November 2021. Malachy line-produced and event managed the piece across its six-week run.

Theatre Deli

In 2017, Malachy took a year out of university to work with Theatre Deli as their producing intern. Within the year, he had supported their producer Emma Blackman to programme and produce several shows, small festivals and regular events. He also took a lead in programming comedy at their venue in Burgess Park - The Old Library; this lead to him producing and programming a month-long festival of stand-up comedy previews at the venue.

The Deli Comedy Festival was a month-long festival of comedy preview shows featuring comedians from Romesh Ranganathan and Marcus Brigstocke to Jayde Adams and Jessie Cave. The festival ran throughout July 2018 featuring 45 preview shows in time for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

As the creator and producer of the festival, Malachy’s role included pitching the idea to the Exec team, programming the shows, maintaining the budget, overseeing marketing and PR, designing promotional content such as the poster and flyers, stage management, duty management and even photography.

The festival was featured by the British Comedy Guide, Southwark News, and reviewed by Funny Women who praised the festival for “championing female acts”.

Malachy has been working in producing for organisations for many years and is keen to apply his skills to working independently on projects that excite him. He is drawn to work that is subversive, evocative and political – work that has something to say.

Malachy is passionate about talent development and his producing style is people-focussed, and with a background in supporting the creation and delivery of innovative and ambitious work, he has a strong grasp of all aspects of theatre craft, dramaturgy and producing.