Shannon
Ayako Martin
Playing Age: 22 - 32
Height: 5’7
Hair: Dark Brown
Eyes: Brown
Shannon is an actor and playwright from Galway. She recently appeared in YAQUI and BÉAL in the Galway Theatre Festival and HAMLET: CYBERMADNESS as Ophelia with Cyclone Rep.
In 2019, she graduated from the Giles Foreman Centre of Acting in London. Shannon first got her taste for performance when she joined the street theatre group, Macnas, in which she worked as a street performer and puppeteer for numerous parades across Ireland and London.
She has been funded by the Arts Council’s Agility Award in 2021 and 2023 to write her plays THE TALE OF THE JAPANESE SEA LION and ELLA EST OÙ?. She completed an MA in Theatre Practice and Production at University of Galway in 2023.