Our people - Sharon O'Doherty

Sharon has been involved in theatre since she made her debut aged 12. She studied mime for three years at the Ecole International de Mimodrame Marcel Marceau in Paris. After completing her studies she joined the Mimodrame Theatre company Theatre de la Sphere touring Europe extensively with such productions as Les Memoire des Femmes and Immmorium. On her return to Ireland she co-founded Mimodrame Theatre Company with Helena Froudist and Jack Walsh. Their work includes The Children of Lir,( a work about Irish Emigration in the 80's)and Sinking in You , based on the poetry of Pablo Naruda..Other mime credits include La Balancoire, a solo number she performed at the Palais Garnier in Paris, Mmmm, an Experience in Mime in Chicago and The Fishermen , which she wrote and directed. During her career she has performed in many classical and modern text by writers such as Yeats and Synge and even a Gaiety Panto Mother Goose. Television appearances include A Leaf in the Wind, being a presenter of Bosco and Molly Morbeg in The Morbegs.  She was a member of VeniziaInScena, a Commedia dell'Arte troupe based in Venice, for three years. Sharon also works as a director, movement choreographer and writer. 

Her latest work The Clerk's Tale,based on the account of  the events of the battle of Mount St Bridge by Pembroke District Councils town clerk Joshua Manly, was presented as part of the 1916 celebrations. Sharon is the course director of the Theatre Performance course in Inchicore College, resident mime tutor with the Gaiety School of Acting and a member of the Leinster School of Drama and Music faculty at Griffith College since the H-Dip programme started.  She also has taught mime workshops with such organisations as the Cantieri Internationale D'Arte, Montipulciano, Italy, The Royal Ballet Summer School, Kent, England, and Boston College Summer School under the auspices of the Abbey Theatre.