Phillip McMahon

Phillip McMahon is a playwright and director based in Dublin. 

Writing credits include Once Before I Go (Gate Theatre), Come On Home, Town Is Dead, Alice In Funderland, Investment Potential,The Rock (all at the Abbey Theatre), Pineapple, Elevator, All Over Town and Danny & Chantelle (still here). 

Directing credits include the smash hit double bill of If These Wigs Could Talk by Panti Bliss & Haunted by Tara Flynn (which played to sold out houses at the Abbey Theatre in November 2022), Straight to Video and Dublin Oldschool by Emmet Kirwan, Town Is Dead for The Abbey Theatre, Insane Animals by Bourgeois & Maurice, Not A Funny Word by Tara Flynn and Money by Peter Daly. He has made and toured a number of smash hit shows with long time collaborator, drag superstar Panti, and was co-producer and co-writer on Conor Horgan’s esteemed documentary The Queen of Ireland for Blinder Films. Philip recently co-created a dance theatre work, Party Scene, with long time collaborator, choreographer Philip Connaughton. 

Phillip is co-founder and co-director of theatre production company THISISPOPBABY, wherein he was co-creator and co-curator of the THISISPOPBABY performance venue at Electric Picnic Music and Arts Festival, Queer Notions cross arts festival, WERK Performance/Art/Club and Where We Live festival of performance and ideas. Phillip has created and directed many works within THISISPOPBABY, including international hit, RIOT, and more recently, WAKE at Dublin's National Stadium.

Phillip was a former Writer In Association at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. He is currently Artistic Associate at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London, and is Research Fellow at the Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, London.