Sharon Fogarty

Sharon Fogarty’s work with Mabou Mines has taken many forms and spans almost 20 years. A Boston native, she performed in the company’s productions of Cold Harbor in Mexico City and Lear in New York and Toronto. Beginning in 1996, she became the producer for many Mabou Mines' productions including the OBIE Award-winning An Epidog, Hajj and Ecco Porco, written and directed by Lee Breuer; Ruth Maleczech’s Belén: A Book Of Hoursand Song For New York; Mabou Mines Doll House; Red Beads, directed by Lee Breuer, and three plays written by Samuel Beckett (Worstword Ho, Company and Happy Days). Fogarty became a Co-Artistic Director of the company in 1999; she then conceived, wrote and directed Cara Lucia, a music theater work inspired by the life of James Joyce’s daughter, Lucia, with Ruth Maleczech in the title role. A more portable production, Lucia’s Chapters, continues to tour the U.S. and internationally and has received a nomination for the Elliot Norton Award from The Boston Globe as well five nominations for American Theater Wing design awards. Fogarty is currently at work on FINN, a chronicle of the boyhood adventures of Celtic hero Finn McCool in his quest to become a warrior. The work will combine live action with digital motion capture techniques and is a collaboration between Fogarty, the Irish playwright Jocelyn Clarke, Scottish composer Phil Cunningham and Czech digital artists Misha Zabranska and Misha Votruba.