Pavilion Pulse Award

First launched in July 2025, Pavilion Pulse Award supports daring ideas and champions work that has its finger on the pulse of today.

In the first year, there were 30 awardees, working in theatre, music, dance, live podcasting, family and multidisciplinary work, based across all four provinces. With the kind support of the Arts Council, a total of €70,000 in funding was used to develop ambitious new projects which we have been delighted to support.

Whether you want to get your project rehearsal-ready, dive deeper into development or spark something entirely new, we’re looking for visionary, urgent projects that need to be developed now. We want to support artists who are taking risks and responding boldly to the world around them. This year there are two strands: Strand One: Foundation (€1,500 per award) which is for work at the beginning of creation and Strand Two: Acceleration (up to €5,000 per award) for work that can be structured and rehearsed.

Applications will re-open in 2027.

Pavilion Pulse Awardees 2026

Strand One: Foundation
ArínọláTheatre, Colm McCready, Oisín Kearney, Rose Henderson, Shane Mac an Bhaird, Tom Creed

Strand Two: Acceleration
Alison Teahan, Cahoots NI & Score Draw Music, FELISPEAKS, Fishamble: The New Play Company for development of a new Pat Kinevane play, Last Apollo, Liam McCarthy, Luke Murphy, Michelle Read

More information about the awardees is available by clicking here.

Pavilion Pulse Awardees 2025

Aisling Smith, Alan Mahon, Alison Teahan, Anna Sheils-McNamee, Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, Conall Morrison, Fishamble: The New Play Company for The Navigator Project, Grace Sun Park, Harry Hall, James Phelan, Janet Moran, Jenni Nikinmaa, Jimmy Murphy, Kate Brosnan, Laura Brady, Lisa Tierney-Keogh, Liv O'Donoghue, Livin' Dred Theatre Co., Luke Casserly, Michelle Read, Niamh McCann, Niamh Regan, Paul Curley, Rachael Lavelle, Rima Baransi, Shane O'Reilly, Stefano Callovi, Stephen Jones, Séamus Ó Flatharta, Ultan Pringle.

More information about the awardees is available by clicking here.

Pavilion Pulse Award is made possible by kind support of the Arts Council of Ireland and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.