tasteinyourmouth are an award winning theatre company founded in 2020 by William Dunleavy, Grace Morgan and Laoise Murray. We make original, experimental work that is uncanny, shiny and feminist.
Working collaboratively with artists of different backgrounds, we create experiences for people who aren’t looking for all the answers but delight in the questions.
Our debut production, b(l)oom, was seen at The New Theatre in January 2020. Our site-specific piece, After Your Ass, was developed at SHOW 2018 at the Triskel Arts Centre with CORCADORCA. A work in progress of our new site-specific piece, You’re Needy (sounds frustrating), was seen as part SHOW 2020 in November.
We are part of Dublin Fringe Festival’s Fringe Lab initiative as part of their reimagined festival for 2020. Our short play, Aitchoo, won The Larry Kramer Bursary at the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival. We are also recipients of the Dunamaise Arts Centre’s Open Stage Residency.
Laoise Murray is a Dublin-based performer, director and theatre-maker.
Her recent theatre credits as a maker include: A Woman Under A Roof (Smock Allies: Scene and Heard 2020), b(l)oom (The New Theatre), After Your Ass (Triskel Arts Centre, as part of Corcadorca’s SHOW 2018).
Film and Television credits include Butterfly Diaries (Zanzibar Films), Five Letters to the Stranger Who Will Dissect My Brain (Oonagh Kearney with Junk Ensemble) The Delinquent Season (Neighbourhood Films), Out of Here (Stalker Films), The Importance of Being Whatever (Accomplice Television), The Tudors (Showtime).
She has been the recipient of an Arts Council Theatre Bursary and Professional Development Grant (2020), Dun-Laoghaire Rathdown Emerging Artist Award (2020), Creative Ireland Mentorship and Training Award recipient for (2020, 2019). Laoise holds a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin, and subsequently worked as a Research Assistant in the School of Creative Arts for 2019-2020.
Grace Morgan’s recent credits as a maker and director include; b(l)oom, (The New Theatre), WHERE ARE YOU FROM? (co-director, The Young Curator’s Festival, The Peacock Theatre,) Sun Bear (Smock Allies:Scene and Heard 2020), Waterford Crystal (Smock Allies: Scene and Heard, 2019), and After your Ass as part of Corcadorca’s SHOW 2018. Grace also worked as assistant director to Gavin Quinn for Pan Pan’s production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Bush Moukarzel for Dead Centre's production Hamnet in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York and Dylan Tighe on Pasolini’s Salo Redubbed (A Dylan Tighe and Abbey Theatre Co - production for Dublin Theatre Festival, 2019). She most recently worked on Dead Centre’s production To Be A Machine.
Grace has been the recipient of the Emerging Artist Award from Dunlaoghaire Rathdown, a Creative Ireland Mentorship award, An Arts Council Theatre Bursary and was a Gap Day artist. Grace holds a BA in English and Drama from Trinity College.
William Dunleavy is a writer, actor and theatre-maker working in Dublin and London. He is currently a member of the Bush Theatre’s Playwright’s Group and Big Ambitions, a new play development initiative by Fishamble: The New Play Company. His monologue play, Narcissus, was presented by Druid Theatre at Galway International Arts Festival 2019 as a Druid Debut. It was also awarded the Gerry Sinnott LGBT Ally Bursary at Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival 2020. A TV pilot of Narcissus was shortlisted for the BBC Writers Academy and Writersroom. His work has been supported by an Arts Council of Ireland Professional Development Award, Theatre Bursary and a COVID-19 Response Award.
His musical theatre work with composer Benedict Esdale includes Passions: A New Song Cycle (Bewley’s Café Theatre) and Dangerous Liaisons (Smock Alley: Scene + Heard). The development of Dangerous Liaisons was supported by a DLR Emerging Artists Grant and Dangerous Liaisons: The Concept Album was released in August on all major streaming platforms. The show will receive work in progress showings in London with both Rebecca Lyle Productions and at the Turbine in 2021.