Barry Fitzgerald

Barry Fitzgerald is a director, maker and performer creating interdisciplinary performance work that is aesthetically rich, accessible, thought-provoking and fun. Fitzgerald has worked with Carlow Arts Festival, Complicité, Barbican, Dublin Fringe, Punchdrunk & Royal Court among others. Their film and video work has screened at festivals including Aesthetica, Cork International Film Festival, Galway Film Fleadh, GAZE LGBTQ+ Festival, Homotopia, Scottish Queer International Film Festival and SHOUT. Their most recent video work, …you should see me in the dress was part of VISUAL’s summer exhibition, Remembering the Future, and won an Artworks Award, granted to artists who demonstrate "exceptional promise". Barry participated in the 2025 Pan Pan International Mentorship with Caden Manson, and contributed a chapter to Stanislavsky and Gender (Routledge), writing on queerness and their experiences of training, teaching and performance making.

While at CCI, Barry will develop a new experimental performance, BETTY, inspired by their great-aunt Betty, who moved from rural Ireland to Paris in 1950. Drawing on a 1954 bust of her made by her partner, Pikko, Barry will research their extraordinary life in Paris, exploring intergenerational stories, memory, dementia, belonging and nationhood, while experimenting with design, movement and form.