Jack Healy is an Irish theatre maker based in Cork City. He took his first professional role in the early eighties and since then has worked in every area of the theatre. His main focus is on new plays and he has been involved in countless world premieres. With his own company Theatre Makers Ltd., he has worked extensively with Cork-based playwright Ger Fitzgibbon, producing a number of new works by Ger (The Bed, Tenebrae, The Hairdresser’s Calendar and Ghostlight) They are currently working on a new version of The Tain by Ger, which is due for production in 2025. With Theatre Makers Ltd he also wrote and performed his one-man-show, Shostakovich (based on the life and work of the Soviet composer). In 2008 it was performed at the Southbank centre in London as part of the “Rest is Noise Festival”

He has written extensively for children. His play The Man in the Moon (with Enda Walshe, after a story of Jack’s) was performed at the Deptford Studios in London in 2009. Aesop’s Fabulous Foibles and Fables (with George Hanover, after Aesop) was commissioned by Cork Midsummer Festival for 2008 and performed extensively throughout Ireland under the Theatre Makers banner. In 2010 he was commissioned by Cork County Council to write a stage version of the novel Glenanaar by Cannon Sheehan. He has written commissions for RTE radio and The Everyman Palace, Cork. He has worked with other Cork City based companies, Meridian, Corcadorca, GraZiti and The Everyman Palace. He teaches acting with the Drama Dept at UCC.,