Biography noelle brown dublin

Noelle is originally from Cork and has been a freelance actor since 1987.
A professional actor since 1987, Noelle has worked extensively in theatre, film, television radio, and more recently, in stand-up comedy.
Noelle Brown is a well-known Irish actor, playwright, and activist.

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LITERARY AGENT

March 30, 2015
Sunday Business Post, March 29th 2015, by Brendan Daly

Postscript is an autobiographical story of one woman’s search for her identity. Noelle Brown, who co-wrote the script and performs in this production, was born into a mother-and-baby home in Cork in the mid-1960s and adopted shortly after.
Postscript opens as the 35-year-old Brown begins to take the first tentative steps in piecing together the jigsaw puzzle of her family history. Rather than depicting herself on stage, Brown assumes a persona in the form of an inept private investigator, Breda Brogan, employed to uncover the circumstances of Brown’s adoption.
Premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2013, Postscript evocatively explores fate, betrayal, and the fluidness of identity. Loosely using the narrative framework of a detective story, the play unfolds as a series of letters to and from Brown that chart the breakthroughs and obstacles she encounters on her quest.
Through these letters, we discover that Brown’s mother was 18-year-old Mary O’Brien, a hotel worker, and the unadorn

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Noelle Brown is a well-known Irish actor, playwright, and activist. Noelle was born in the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork and much of our conversation centres around her campaign work to advance the rights and voices of Mother and Baby home survivors.

Mother and Baby Homes were institutions mostly run by the Catholic church where pregnant women who were unmarried were sent to have their babies. These institutions were established in 1922, the same time as the foundation of the state, and the last one didn’t close until as recently as 1998.

In that time, tens of thousands of women were sent to these institutions. Many of the women, incarcerated against their will in often cold and cruel conditions, were under the age of 18. Some were as young as 12. Some were the victims of rape.

The Irish state, which in many ways modelled itself as a catholic state, had the world’s highest proportion of women sent to such institutions in the 20th century. At the heart of this regime was a dominant moral and religious code which deemed these women to be somehow impure and lesser, and

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ACTING CONTACT

Noelle is originally from Cork and has been a freelance actor since 1987. Her recent Theatre, TV and Performance work includes: The Unmanageable Sisters (Abbey Theatre), Postscript(Abbey Theatre/Peacock) Ripper Street (Tiger Aspect) Fair City (RTE) Speeches of Note (Pavillion Dun Laoghaire) Something Unspoken (Bewley’s Café Theatre) The Touching Contract (Jesse Jones and Sarah Browne) and Monday’s Child (Barnstorm/UK Tour & Irish Tour)

Previous work at the Abbey Theatre includes: Dancing at Lughnasa (Australian Tour/Irish Tour and Gaiety run) Romeo and Juliet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Sarcophagus (Peacock) Ghosts (Peacock and New York) and En suite (Peacock).

She has appeared at the Gate Theatre in Peer Gynt, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Jane Eyre, A Christmas Carol, Pride and Prejudice and Anna Karenina.

Other theatre work includes: Sharon’s Grave, Learning to Love Doreen Nolan (Druid) Bogboy (Tall Tales Irish Arts Centre New-York) The Whisperers (Rough Magic Edinburgh Festival) Plasticine (Corcad