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Brent Pace is the CEO and Producer of Pace Live and the creator of A Taste of Ireland.

Ceili Pace is Executive Producer of the A Taste of Ireland Company, overseeing the touring, marketing and international expansion of Pace Live’s portfolio of productions.

Before producing, Ceili spent a decade performing — Australian National, North American National, All Ireland, and World Champion in Irish dance, with credits in Riverdance and Lord of the Dance across more than 15 countries. Highlights include performing the lead role of Morrighan alongside Michael Flatley, dancing on the West End, and appearances on The Graham Norton Show and Good Morning America. She was an Ambassador for the Peter “Bullfrog” Moore Foundation, supporting young performers and athletes pursuing their own careers.

Today, Ceili leads the commercial and audience-facing side of the A Taste of Ireland Company — guiding A Taste of Ireland, A Celtic Christmas, Éireann and Tara across stages from Sydney to the West End to Off-Broadway and beyond. She works alongside her partner Brent Pace, Artistic Director, to bring the Company’s productions to new markets while holding the artistic standard that defines them.

Ceili is grateful to her family, friends and mentors for the support that brought her here — and to every audience that’s made the work possible.

Dan Light is a video designer based in London, working in the UK and internationally. He graduated from The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2022, receiving The Lord Mayor’s Prize.

Video Design credits include: Your Lie In April (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Girl on the Train (Salisbury Playhouse / UK Tour); The Parent Agency (Chester Storyhouse); Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon (Garrick Theatre); An Interrogation (Hampstead Theatre / Summerhall Edinburgh); Drop The Dead Donkey (UK Tour); The Ballad of Hattie and James (Kiln Theatre); 1984 (Hackney Town Hall); One Last Push (Salisbury Playhouse); Lizzie: The Musical (Hope Mill Theatre / UK Tour); For Tonight: In Concert (Adelphi Theatre); Bat Boy: In Concert (London Palladium); It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure (Flawbored/Edinburgh Festival Fringe / Soho Theatre / SoHo Playhouse NYC / UK Tour); Snowflakes (Park Theatre), How To Break Out Of A Detention Centre, Dear Annie I Hate You (Riverside Studios).

Dan regularly collaborates with FRAY Studios as an Associate Video Designer to Finn Ross on their portfolio of productions and events, notably Vogue World London, a theatre-inspired fashion show broadcasted from Theatre Royal Drury Lane, An American In Paris as part of The Royal Ballet’s production of Ballet to Broadway: Wheeldon Works at The Royal Opera House, Back to the Future: The musical for Shiki Theatre in Japan, and setting up and maintaining international productions of Disney’s Frozen: The Musical, in Germany and The Netherlands. As Associate Video Designer to David Bergman, Dan worked on the West End transfer of Sydney Theatre Company’s award-winning production of The Picture of Dorian Graystarring Sarah Snook, which was praised for its innovative use of Video Design.

Theatre includes: work.txt (Soho Theatre &International Tour); The Watsons (Jermyn Street Theatre); Without (Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Compositor E (VAULTS Festival); Zombiegate (Theatre503); Period Dramas (Other Palace); Noson yn y Glwys (Neuadd Dewi Sant); Jigsaw, The Abductions (Rose Theatre, Kingston); The Moors (Richard Burton Theatre); Fires Our Shoes Have Made, The Improv Musical! (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Dogfight (Warwick Arts Centre Studio); Timpson: The Musical (King’s Head Theatre); Guys & Dolls (Warwick Arts Centre Theatre); X (Warwick Arts Centre Studio); RENT (Goose Nest
Theatre); Blood Wedding (Mumford Theatre).

Opera includes: A Visit to Friends (Aldeburgh Festival); Uprising (Glyndebourne); Beauty and the Seven Beasts (Brixton Jamm); Don Giovanni /Il barbiere di Siviglia / Le nozze di Figaro (Sherman Theatre); Hansel and Gretel (Goose Nest Theatre). Dance includes: English National Ballet Emerging Dancer 2024 (Sadler’s Wells Theatre); Re- Play (Mulryan Centre for Dance); Empower in Motion (Sadler’s Wells Theatre); Terra Nova (Theatre Royal, Winchester); 1001 (Omnibus Theatre).

Credits as Associate/Assistant Lighting Designer include: Just For One Day (for Howard Hudson, Old Vic & Shaftesbury Theatre); The Great Gatsby (for Cory Pattak, London Coliseum); Starlight Express (for Howard Hudson, Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre); Roald Dahl’s The Witches (for Bruno Poet, National Theatre); The Hypochondriac (for Johanna Town, Sheffield Crucible); Dialogues des Carmélites (for Alessandro Carletti, Glyndebourne).

Danny trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, following a degree in Theatre at the University of Warwick. He was selected as the 2023 Design Lumière by the Association for Lighting Production and Design.

Dominic Brennan is a sound designer from West London. Previous shows include: Lost Watches (Park Theatre), The Gang of Three (King’s Head Theatre), Surrender (Arcola Theatre), The Children (Nottingham Playhouse), The Misandrist (Arcola Theatre), STRIKE! (Southwark Playhouse), Tam O’Shanter and Other Tales (Traverse Theatre), Mediocre White Male (Park Theatre), Shackleton and his Stowaway (Park Theatre), Spiderfly (Theatre 503), We’re Staying Right Here (Park Theatre), Cuckoo (Soho Theatre) and The Universal Machine (New Diorama Theatre).

In 2017 he won the Off-West End Award for Sound Design for his work on Down & Out in Paris and London (New Diorama Theatre). Other work includes music for adverts, short films and a sound installation at the Princess of Wales Conservatory in Kew Gardens.

Justin is a design graduate of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts whose work has been nominated and shortlisted as a finalist for numerous Broadway World® and OFFIES® design awards including Best Immersive Venue for ‘Wonderville’ in Piccadilly Circus and the ETTIES® Best Immersive Production for ‘Stranger Sings’ at Waterloo Vaults.

Justin has trained with Punchdrunk at Fallow Cross and is an Educator with ATG. His design work spans multiple West End, Fringe and UK touring venues as well as international contracts including MSC Cruises.

Designer | West End

Figaro- In Concert (The London Palladium); Little Pieces of You- In Concert (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Wild About You – In Concert (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Your Lie in April – The Musical (Harold Pinter West End); Your Lie in April – In Concert (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Death Note – In Concert (Lyric Theatre, West End); Death Note – In Concert (The Palladium, West End); La Bamba – A Musical (CURVE theatre, Peacock West End & UK tour); Wonderville / Thurston’s Bar (Haymarket Cabaret Venue, West End); Dick Whittington (Phoenix Theatre, West End); Death Drop (Criterion Theatre, West End & UK Tour); Death Drop (Garrick Theatre, West End); *Wonderville – Magic & Illusion (Palace Theatre, West End) Designer | Site Specific ‘Wonderville – Home of Magic’ (MSC Cruises); ‘Wondervile – Future of Magic’ (MSC Cruises); ‘Forever’ (MSC Cruises); Mumbai Nights (The Louvre, Dubai); Tasting Notes (Southwark Playhouse); King Arthur / The Wizard of Oz (The Scoop, Southbank, London); All Or Nothing (Waterloo Vaults Installation); Wonderville / Thurston’s Bar (Haymarket Cabaret Venue, West End)

Designer | Fringe & UK Tour

Saving Mozart (The Other Palace); White Rose The Musical (Marylebone Theatre); Murder She Didn’t Write (UK Tour); Nine- In Concert (Lowry Theatre, Salford); Coppelia – (UK Tour ’24); Stranger Sings – Parody Musical (UK Tour ’24); KIN – The Musical -(Theatre Technics); Trompe O’Leil (The Other Palace); The Giant Killers (UK Tour); When Darkness Falls (Park Theatre & UK Tour ’21); When Darkness Falls (UK Tour ’22); When Darkness Falls (UK Tour ’23); Who’s Holiday (HOME Manchester & Southwark

Playhouse); La Bamba – A Musical (CURVE theatre, Peacock West End & UK tour); Death Drop (Criterion Theatre, West End & UK Tour); No Limits (Turbine Theatre); Who’s Holiday (HOME Manchester & Southwark Playhouse); *Stranger Sings Musical (UK Premiere – Waterloo Vaults); Tasting Notes (Southwark Playhouse); Murder for Two (Barn Theatre); Coppelia (Cockpit Theatre); Who Cares (Waterloo Vaults); Ben Hur (Barn Theatre); Soho Cinders (Charing Cross Theatre); *Whistle Down the Wind (Union Theatre); *Brooklyn the Musical (European Premiere; Greenwich Theatre); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Union Theatre); Seussical – The Musical (Southwark Playhouse); Section 2 (Bunker Theatre); Fiver The Musical (Southwark Playhouse); One Giant Leap (Brockley Jack Studios); Can-

Can (Union Theatre); Daisy Pulls it Off (Shoreditch Town Hall); Half Me, Half You (Tristan Bates); Heartbreak House (Union Theatre); Can-Can (Union Theatre); *Othello (Union Theatre); *Metropolis (Ye Olde Rose and Crown); Carmen (Union Theatre); Locked Up (Tristan Bates); The Cherry Orchard (Union Theatre); 35MM Musical (The Other Palace); Parade (London Theatre Workshop); Imagine This (Union Theatre); The Hired Man (Union Theatre); Twang! The Musical (Union Theatre); Every Wild Beast (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); From Dust (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); *Through the Mill (Southwark Playhouse); Kicked in the Sh*tter (Hope Theatre); Tribe (London Theatre Workshop); *Confessional (Southwark Playhouse); Glockenspiel (Tristan Bates Theatre); It’s Only Life (Aria Entertainment); *Freddy, Ted and the Death of Joe Orton (London Theatre Workshop); Apartment 40C (The Other Palace) *Nominated for an award

Innovative and detail-oriented, Jacki brings over 30 years of hands on experience in costume making and more than 20 years as a costume supervisor. Her expertise spans design, fabrication, and wardrobe styling across theatre, film, and live events.
Renowned for blending historical accuracy with modern flair, she brings characters to life through garments that speak louder than words. As a naturally collaborative professional she thrives in fast-paced environments and excels at transforming creative briefs into wear- able art.

Jacki’s career includes work in iconic performance spaces and headline-making events, such as the opening and closing ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games. She has collaborated with site-specific companies like Birmingham Opera Company and worked in traditional theatre venues, including the Birmingham Hippodrome, Coventry Belgrade, and Leicester Curve.

A standout moment in her career was her collaboration with Imitating the Dog on their project with Maison Margiela and John Galliano’s innovative Autumn 2022 fashion show. Her work encompasses everything from Shakespearean productions to the classics and actor-led, improvised organic processes.

Donnacadh is a multi-award winning Creative Director, Experience Designer and Story Architect specialising in live theatre, immersive experiences and experiential learning. His wide ranging career has seen him working on everything from musicals, to clown shows to large scale immersive LBE’s for families.

Over 20 years as a stage director, he won multiple award including an Olivier Award for his production of the groundbreaking play Rotterdam (Arts Theatre London, 59E59 New York), an Offie Award for his production of the musical Operation Mincemeat (Southwark Playhouse/Riverside Studios London), and multiple awards for gig-theatre sensation Electrolyte (Edinburgh Festival), as well as taking a dramaturgical role in the development of each. As an Assistant and Associate Director he worked on major productions, including Complicite’s Endgame (West End), Mischief’s Peter Pan Goes Wrong & A Comedy About a Bank Robbery (West End) the multi award-winning Histories Cycle (RSC/Roundhouse), which was named The Guardian Newspaper’s ‘Production of the Decade’).

In recent years Donnacadh has pivoted to working on immersive theatrical experiences. This work has encompassed public focused work with major IP’s in the intersection between Immersive Theatre and the Attractions industry, as well as original learning experiences created bespoke for corporate clients within the broad area of Learning & Development.

He has delivered occasional talks and keynotes throughout his career, and has taught and mentored at major UK Universities and drama schools, including RADA, LAMDA, SAID Business School and Cambridge University, and spent a year as Associate Fellow of Creativity at Warwick University.