Echo Echo Festival Team

Artistic Director – Steve Batts

Associate Artistic Director – Ayesha Mailey

Company Manager – Ailbe Beirne

Technical Manager – Barry Davis

Festival Publicity and Support – Anna Nolan

Festival Publicity – Brian Fisher

Echo Echo Ensemble – Ayesha Mailey, Kelly Quigley, Zoe Ramsey, Tonya Sheina

Video and Photography – Simon Alleyne

Publicity artwork and design – Ciaran Harley at zoocreative

Board of Directors – Deirdre Gillespie, Ciara Bradley, Gail Mahon, Tina McCauley, Frank Rafferty

Festival Thanks

Thanks to all of the artists and companies involved for their collaborative approach and goodwill towards making this tenth festival programme possible – and to all of their circles of colleagues and supporters.

Thank you to our principal funders: Arts Council of Northern Ireland and The National Lottery, and Derry City and Strabane District Council; and thanks to Caoileann Curry-Thompson, Roisin Murray and team at ACNI, and to Jacqueline Whoriskey, Ailish McDaid, Declan Shiels, John Kerr and all of the team at Council for their continued encouragement and support.

Thanks to the Department for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Media, Gaeltacht and Sport in Ireland for their continued support through the Cooperation with Northern Ireland Funding Scheme.

Thanks to the Garfield Weston Foundation for supporting Echo Echo again in 2024/25. Thanks to all of the previous Festival funders and supporters over the last twelve years and a special mention for the Foyle Foundation, in their final year of grant-giving this year, who supported four of the first nine editions.

Thanks to all of the Echo Echo staff, Echo Echo Ensemble and Associate Artists, volunteers and company directors for their continued commitment and dedication throughout the year!

Finally, thanks to you – our audiences, colleagues, friends and family for your continued support!