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Board Members

• Dearbhla Collins (Chair)

• Simon Doyle

• Dr. Barry Houlihan

• Karen McEntegart

• Zhaohui Wang

Dearbhla Collins – appointed to the Board 2024

Dearbhla Collins is one of Ireland’s finest pianists. She is most well known as a song pianist and performs recitals with singers such as Benjamin Appl, Patricia Bardon and Tara Erraught. She also regularly works with Dame Ann Murray and Brigitte Fassbaender. As well as being vocal coach at the RIAM, she has recently been appointed Assistant Head of Music at the National Opera Studio, London. 

She has also coached in the Universität für Musik, Vienna, in Zurich and the Beijing Central Conservatory. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Dublin Song Series which puts on song recitals in Dublin at the National Concert Hall and the Hugh Lane Municipal Art Gallery. 

Dearbhla is the Artistic Administrator of the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, previous winners of which include Nadine Sierra, Fatma Said and William Thomas. 

In October 2017 she was awarded an honorary doctorate for her services to music in Ireland from the National University of Ireland. In July 2019 she was appointed appointed Assistant Head of Music at London’s National Opera Studio.

Simon Doyle – appointed to the Board 2019

Simon Doyle is a writer and dramaturg based in Dublin. For Pan Pan he co-wrote Oedipus Loves You (2006) with Gavin Quinn; and as dramaturg he worked on The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane (2010), Everyone Is King Lear In His Own Home (2012), The Seagull and Other Birds (2014), and Newcastlewest (2016). Other theatre work includes: Thwaite (2003), libretto for an opera by Jürgen Simpson, directed by Dick Bird in an Almeida Opera and Opera Theatre Company co-production; Off Plan (2010), an adaptation of The Oresteia by Aeschylus, directed by Rachel West in a RAW Theatre and Project Arts Centre co-production; The Truth of the Moon (2010), a monologue performed by Sonya Kelly and directed by Sophie Motley at the Dublin Fringe Festival; and The Shitstorm (2017), a re-imagining of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, directed by Maeve Stone in an Abbey Theatre and Dublin Fringe Festival co-production. He also works as a software engineer, specialising in eLearning.

Dr. Barry Houlihan – appointed to the Board 2024

Dr. Barry Houlihan is an Archivist at University of Galway, specialising in archives of theatre and performance. Archive projects include archives of Druid Theatre, Pan Pan Theatre Company, Corn Exchange Theatre Company, Galway International Arts Festival, as well as a number of curated digital theatre exhibitions and oral histories. Barry has published the monograph Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951-1977 (Palgrave MacMillan 2021), edited the book Navigating Ireland’s Theatre Archive: Theory, Practice, Performance (Peter Lang Press, 2019) and is currently editing the collected essays of Thomas Kilroy (Forthcoming, Liverpool University Press). Other articles and chapters on Irish theatre, literature, archives, and memory have featured in Irish University Review, New Hibernia Review, Review of Irish Studies in Europe, among others. Barry is a regular contributor to RTÉ Brainstorm and is general editor of the journal, Irish Archives, published annually by the Irish Society for Archives.

Karen Mc Entegart – appointed to the Board 2020

A BComm (Accounting) and MBS (Finance) graduate of University College Dublin, Karen Mc Entegart is Global Head of Resilience at Refinitiv, responsible for the governance and assurance of the continuity and resilience of Refinitiv’s technology platforms. She has led operational resilience responses to numerous events including 9/11 in New York, London July 5 bombings, Japan earthquake and tsunami, COVID19, hurricanes, typhoons and other significant disasters. Her current focus of interest is Cyber Resilience and Chaos Engineering. Previously, Karen held similar positions at Thomson Reuters, Reuters and UBS in London, Lehman Brothers in New York and Citibank in Dublin.

Zhaohui Wang – appointed to the Board 2022

Zhaohui Wang is a theatre, film and television producer based in Beijing with more than twenty years’ experience in international co-production. She has a BA in Drama from La Trobe University Melbourne. She worked as a Production Manager and Director for several programs for various China Central Television Channels. From 2005, she joined Beijing Rosat Film and Television Company in charge of international co-productions. Credits include: Bleed (2017, co-pro with US), John Rabe (2008 co-pro with Germany), Destiny (2007, co-pro with Brazil). Independent films include: Cry of the Birds (directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang, 2022). In 2006 she started working on theatre projects. She collaborated with Pan Pan on The Playboy of the Western World (2006), Fight the Landlord (2009), and The Seagull and Other Birds (2013, China). Other credits include: Five Fools (2015, a bilingual Children’s musical), Ballae (2017, Korean Musical).