Company Registration Number: 272890
Tax Registration Number: 8272890E
Pan Pan Theatre Company Limited by Guarantee, trading as Pan Pan, is a not-for-profit entity without a share capital.
Board Members
Amanda Piesse (Chair)
William Abrahamson
Lia Campbell
Simon Doyle
Karen McEntegart
Zhaohui Wang
Dr Amanda Piesse – appointed to the Board 2018
Amanda Piesse was educated at St John’s College, Oxford, taking her BA, MPhil, MA and D Phil there between 1983 and 1990. After brief spells working with the NHS in Liverpool (1990-1) and lecturing in the School of English at Durham University (1991-3), she took up a lectureship in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin in 1994 and worked there until she resigned in 2017. During that time she taught, supervised and published in the areas of early modern drama and children’s literature, regularly assisting in the preparation of research grant applications, and lecturing, examining and serving on interview panels for cognate disciplines and organisations. For five years she was Fellows’ representative to the College Board and chair of the student services committee; for three, Dean of Students; and for more than fifteen, honorary president of DU Players. Experience with Pan Pan to date has included advisory work on The Rehearsal: Playing the Dane, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Der Sturm. She currently lives in Northern Ireland.
William Abrahamson – appointed to the Board 2022
William Abrahamson is a practising barrister. He was called to the Bar in 2001, and became a Senior Counsel in 2021. He was educated at Sandford Park School, the University of Limerick (BA), and the Honorable Society of King’s Inns (BL). He has a broad civil practice encompassing litigation and advisory work principally in the areas of commercial law and chancery. William is a co-author of the leading Irish textbook on disclosure in litigation, Discovery & Disclosure (3rd ed., 2019). He is also an accredited mediator (CEDR). Outside of work and family, William has an interest in literature and the performing arts, and has been a member of the National Symphony Chorus (formerly the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir) since 2000.
Lia Campbell – appointed to the Board 2022
Lia graduated with 1st class honours from the Irish National Film School at IATD, Dun Laoghaire. Her film To All My Darlings won the Audience Award, best short film at Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival 2021 and was shortlisted for the EDA Student BAFTAs. Her short film Run With Her, commissioned by the Scottish Documentary Institute, produced by WalkOnAir Films and funded by N.I Screen and Screen Scotland, premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2021. The feature-length follow on of the film Girls Who Run The World is currently a selected project for the IGNITE Talent Development Scheme 2021/22. Amor, a fiction LGBTQIA+ short film in collaboration with Nairobi-based writer Aduda Hera and the Northern Irish production company Dumbworld, commissioned by the British Council and funded by BFI Network as part of their Films For Freedom short film scheme, premieres at the BFI Flare festival 2023.
Simon Doyle – appointed to the Board 2019
Simon Doyle is a writer and dramaturg based in Dublin. For Pan Pan he co-wrote Oedipus Loves You (2006) with Gavin Quinn; and as dramaturg he worked on The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane (2010), Everyone Is King Lear In His Own Home (2012), The Seagull and Other Birds (2014), and Newcastlewest (2016). Other theatre work includes: Thwaite (2003), libretto for an opera by Jürgen Simpson, directed by Dick Bird in an Almeida Opera and Opera Theatre Company co-production; Off Plan (2010), an adaptation of The Oresteia by Aeschylus, directed by Rachel West in a RAW Theatre and Project Arts Centre co-production; The Truth of the Moon (2010), a monologue performed by Sonya Kelly and directed by Sophie Motley at the Dublin Fringe Festival; and The Shitstorm (2017), a re-imagining of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, directed by Maeve Stone in an Abbey Theatre and Dublin Fringe Festival co-production. He also works as a software engineer, specialising in eLearning.
Karen Mc Entegart – appointed to the Board 2020
A BComm (Accounting) and MBS (Finance) graduate of University College Dublin, Karen Mc Entegart is Global Head of Resilience at Refinitiv, responsible for the governance and assurance of the continuity and resilience of Refinitiv’s technology platforms. She has led operational resilience responses to numerous events including 9/11 in New York, London July 5 bombings, Japan earthquake and tsunami, COVID19, hurricanes, typhoons and other significant disasters. Her current focus of interest is Cyber Resilience and Chaos Engineering. Previously, Karen held similar positions at Thomson Reuters, Reuters and UBS in London, Lehman Brothers in New York and Citibank in Dublin.
Zhaohui Wang – appointed to the Board 2022
Zhaohui Wang is a theatre, film and television producer based in Beijing with more than twenty years’ experience in international co-production. She has a BA in Drama from La Trobe University Melbourne. She worked as a Production Manager and Director for several programs for various China Central Television Channels. From 2005, she joined Beijing Rosat Film and Television Company in charge of international co-productions. Credits include: Bleed (2017, co-pro with US), John Rabe (2008 co-pro with Germany), Destiny (2007, co-pro with Brazil). Independent films include: Cry of the Birds (directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang, 2022). In 2006 she started working on theatre projects. She collaborated with Pan Pan on The Playboy of the Western World (2006), Fight the Landlord (2009), and The Seagull and Other Birds (2013, China). Other credits include: Five Fools (2015, a bilingual Children’s musical), Ballae (2017, Korean Musical).