Isolde Fenton: Belltable Artist-in-Residence 2025

We are thrilled to announce actor and writer Isolde Fenton as this year’s Belltable Artist-in-Residence. The scheme is presented as part of our Belltable:Connect programme that aims to provide a supportive environment for artists in Limerick to research and develop their work. Previous Belltable Artist-in-Residence artists include Mike Finn, Joanne Ryan, Liam McCarthy, Georgina Miller and Hala Jabar.

Isolde says about her selection: ‘During this residency, I will develop my third play, BIRDS. I am very grateful and excited to be the Artist in Residence in the Belltable, where I performed my first ever play with Limerick Youth Theatre in 2014.’

The residency comes with a stipend, hot desk space to work in Belltable and use of the studio spaces in Belltable for rehearsal/development work. The Artist-in-Residence will also have access to the expertise of Belltable production, marketing and technical staff for the duration of the residency.

About Isolde Fenton

Isolde Fenton is an actor and writer from Limerick. She trained at the Gaiety School of Acting from 2019 – 2021, and then with the UK’s National Youth Theatre’s Rep Company from 2022 – 2023. Previous acting credits include Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, (Duke of York’s Theatre) Ophelia in Hamlet, (DLR Mill Theatre) and Peggy in Mortal Sin (Smock Alley Theatre; to be produced in Bewley’s Café Theatre later this year). Her debut play as a playwright, CHALK & CHEESE, won the PJ O’Connor Radio Play Award in 2024; the play will be produced with RTE for Drama On One later this year. She received a bursary from Cork Theatre Collective to develop her second play, IN A BAD WAY, which was subsequently chosen as part of CTC’s SHOW: A Work in Progress. She was also included in the Irish Examiner’s Ones to Watch list for 2025.