Jeda de Brí is a director and writer for film and theatre. She is Artistic Director of Sickle Moon Productions.
She co-wrote and directed Tryst, earning a nomination for the Fishamble Best New Writing Award, which went to Project Arts Centre, Civic Theatre, Dublin Fringe, Lyric Theatre, Belfast, and Vault Festival. It is now being developed for screen with Treasure Entertainment. She directed The Egg is a Lonely Hunter written and performed by Hannah Mamalis at Edinburgh Fringe/Dublin Fringe (nominated for Little Gem Award & First Fortnight Award at Dublin Fringe & First Fortnight Festival) and Mimes in Time at Edinburgh Fringe, Tiger Dublin Fringe (nominated for Little Gem Award).
Selected as part of the IFB Short Stories Scheme, she wrote and directed her short film Procession which premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh 2018. Other film credits include Chimneys – nominated for Louis le Prince Award, Leeds International Film Festival and Spacer – nominated for Best Short, Fingal Film Festival – both were screened by RTÉ.
Bewley’s Café Theatre/Irish & UK Tour
Written & Performed by Fionn Foley
Stage Manager: Sinéad Purcell
Producer: David Doyle
Winner of the ‘Best Performer’ and ‘Bewley’s Little Gem’ awards at Dublin Fringe Festival 2018.
Nominated for the BroadwayWorld Ireland ‘Best New Play’, ‘Best Performer’ and ‘Best Director’ Awards.
“A wonderful, joyous celebration of a show.”
★★★★ The Arts Review
Premiere Galway Film Fleadh 2018
Producer: Clare McCabe
Cinematographer: Patrick Jordan
Olwen Fouéré, Serena Brabazon, Finbarr Doyle
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE AT THE ONE-REELER SHORT FILM COMPETITION 2019
A bedraggled community of misfits gather to mourn one of their own the only way they know how – an elaborately eccentric folk music funeral.
Project Arts/Civic Theatre/Dublin Fringe/
Lyric Theatre, Belfast/Vault Festival
Dublin Fringe/Bewley’s Café Theatre
Written by Jeda de Brí & Finbarr Doyle
Directed by Jeda de Brí
Set Design: Katie Foley
Costume Design: Nicola Burke
Lighting Design: Dara Hoban
Music: Dylan Tonge-Jones
“Jeda de Bri and Finbarr Doyle have written a truly terrific representation of an aspect of contemporary life, with sure-fire dialogue and wonderfully layered levels of rage, fear and disintegrating trust. It’s a complex, unresolved treatment of a very modern insoluble problem; a serious, extraordinarily well-made play that is as thought-provoking as it is gripping…….splendidly directed by de Bri.”
Sunday Independent