about our playground 2025 artists
Stephen Jones
Stephen is from Tallaght and is a graduate of UCD. He is the writer and lead actor of the television series Northern Lights, Produced by Lionsgate and Deadpan Pictures. The series was nominated for four IFTA Awards including Best Drama and Best Script. Stephen has been a regular on stage in Ireland and the UK for over a decade. His work at the Abbey Theatre includes - Ulysses and Last Orders At The Dockside.
Other theatre includes: Falling To Earth – My Summer with Bowie at the 2023 Dublin Theatre Festival, Class (which also played at the Dublin Theatre Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning a Fringe First, and at the Bush Theatre, London), Brothers of the Brush, Alone It Stands (Verdant Productions), Tuesdays With Morrie (Pat Moylan/Breda Cashe), DruidMurphy: Plays by Tom Murphy (Druid), Dubliners (Corn Exchange), Maz & Bricks (Fishamble), Howie The Rookie and The Day of the Zebra (Glass Mask), This Lime Tree Bower (Eoin Kilkenny), Are you there Garth? It’s me Margaret (Gaiety Theatre), Stones in his Pockets (Gaiety/UK Tour), The King’s Feet (Dublin Fringe), Danny & Chantelle: Still Here (RedBear), Romeo & Juliet (Devise & Conquer), No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs (Morton Films and Media), Spider (New Theatre), Candy Flippin’ Butterflies (Adopt a Hermit), Portia Coughlan (Bluepatch), From the Shannon to the Somme (Rain King), Wanted: The Legendary Stone Mountain Band (445), Black Snow (Dublin Fringe), Sizwe Bansi is Dead (Camino de Orula), and the leading role of Keano in the hit comedy musical I, Keano and the role of Thomas McDonagh in Signatories which marked the centenary of the Easter Rising and played at Kilmainham Gaol before moving to the Olympia theatre, Dublin.
Stephen has his own theatre company Awake & Sing. Productions include his own plays From Eden, Northern Lights and Summerhill as well as Deirdre Kinahan’s Hue and Cry.
Stephen made his professional directorial debut for Glass Mask Theatre with Rex Ryan’s PopTart Lipstick.
Moya Noctor
Moya Noctor is a writer and performer from Kerry. She previously worked with Glass Mask as Assistant Stage Manager on their production of Stephen Jones’s From Eden in 2024. Moya has a B.A. in Drama Studies and English Literature from Trinity College Dublin and is currently pursuing an MFA in Playwriting at the Lir, for which she was awarded the Patricia Leggett Scholarship. Moya’s one-woman play Moments Alone, which draws on her experience of living with endometriosis, premiered at the Camden Fringe Festival in London in July and has been selected for further development by the Glens Arts Centre, Co. Leitrim. She has presented work at the Gate Theatre through Fighting Words’ Gateways programme and interned with Fishamble: The New Play Company as a Literary Assistant. This year her writing has been published in The Stony Thursday Book and Icarus Magazine.
Jed Murray
Jed Murray is an actor from Dublin city centre. He has worked extensively in theatre and film for over twenty years. Most recently he played ‘Ger’ in WaveWalkers new feature ‘Clan Canavan/Horseshoe’ (post-production) directed by Adam O’Keefe and Edwin Mullane. Also in post production is “Spilt Milk” a feature film directed by Brian Durnin and “WAYFINDERS” a television pilot directed by Glenn Winters for Arrowstorm Entertainment (US) in which he plays ‘Rawhead’.
Theatre wise he most recently performed David Quinns “A Modest Proposal’ Directed by Andy Crook which ran in The New Theatre, T emple Bar. The end of last year saw Jed perform in Stewart Roches “A Christmas Visit” which ran in The Civic Theatre, The Viking Theatre and The Mill Theatre, prior to that Jed performed in The Mill Theatres production of ‘Hamlet’ and Donagh Humphreys play “Becoming Maggie” which enjoyed a three week sold out run in The New Theatre.
Jed is a founding member of the theatre company ‘TheCorpsEnsemble’ directing their productions of “Made In China”(Mark O’Rowe), “Bug” (Tracey Letts) “Eden” (Eugene O’Brien) and “Travesty” (Liam Williams). He also works for the charity ‘Aoifes Clown Doctors’ doing the ‘clown rounds’ in both Crumlin and Temple St Children's hospitals.
