Susan McKeown is a vocalist from Dublin who lives in Manhattan. A prolific recording artist, she has released ten albums of original and world music, and tours internationally. In 2004 she received a BBC Folk Award nomination and in 2007 the Klezmatics album Wonder Wheel on which she was special guest vocalist, won the Grammy for Best Contemporary World Music Album. Susan is the vocalist in the OBIE-award-winning Mabou Mines production Peter & Wendy. She has appeared on various NPR programs—All Things Considered, A Prairie Home Companion, New Sounds Live, Mountain Stage and The Infinite Mind—and has worked with such luminaries as Natalie Merchant, Linda Thompson, Pete Seeger, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Billy Bragg, Arlo Guthrie, Andy Irvine, Flook, Lunasa and the Scots fiddle master Johnny Cunningham. She is delighted to work with Honor Molloy again.
An alumna of New Dramatists, Honor Molloy is a Dublin-born storyteller and playwright who is a veteran of WOW Café, the Knitting Factory, BACA Downtown, LOW Bar, and Brooklyn’s Union Hall. She has received fellowships from the NEA, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Susan performed in her plays Maiden Voyages and Tongues of Stone. Honor has just completed a memoir Oh Dark Hundred—an imaginative portrait of Dublin in the 1960s.
Yvonne Molloy grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania and set off to get her Ph.D. at Trinity College, Dublin in 1954. While there, she produced the first Synge Drama Festival—directing all six plays by John Millington Synge. During the 1950s and 1960s, she wrote for Irish radio and television while producing and directing comic revues. She also had six kids—one of them is Honor Molloy.