This Beautiful Village

On a quiet suburban street in Dublin, a piece of graffiti tears apart a group of neighbours, exposing a deep divide between them.

In one long scene over one night, six people must confront their pride, privilege and prejudice. Who will concede power and how will they move forward?

Power will be undone. It won’t be pretty. But it could be beautiful.

Lisa Tierney-Keogh was born in Dublin. She trained with the Lee Strasberg Theatre and The Second City. Lisa co-founded the Eden Theatre Company which produced two of her stage plays. Lisa was a member of the inaugural New Playwrights Program at the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s National Theatre and was a finalist for the Juilliard Playwrights Fellowship in New York. She has won the Irish Times Theatre Awards Bursary and been nominated for the Stewart Parker New Writing Award, the BBC Tony Doyle Television Award, and the Dublin Fringe Festival Awards (Best New Play, Best Production, Judges Special Award). For television, Lisa has developed work with Octagon Films and Tyrone Productions in Ireland and Yo Yo Media in the UK. Lisa’s work has been performed in Dublin, London, Belfast and New York.