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In 2025, Pan Pan’s acclaimed mentorship program comes to Australia for the first time, continuing its legacy of international dialogue and exchange by creating a space where performance makers are at the core and learning from each other is the key focus.

In this edition, Pan Pan’s Artistic Director Gavin Quinn will mentor up to five Australian-based live art and contemporary performance makers to develop early-stage ideas for new performance projects.

This is a one-on-one mentorship program in which each participant will have four mentorship sessions with Gavin (three online and one in person in Sydney). Each of the selected participants will receive a bursary of AUD $2,600 to help set aside dedicated time to work on their ideas.

First initiated in Dublin in 2012, the International Mentorship program has previously featured mentors such as Kirsten Delholm of Hotel Pro Forma (Denmark), Viviane De Muynck of Needcompany (Belgium), Tim Crouch (UK), Stewart Laing of Untitled Projects (UK), AnnaSophie Mahler of CapriConnection (Germany), Johanna Freiburg of She She Pop/Gob Squad (Germany/UK), Kelly Copper of Nature Theater of Oklahoma (USA), Terry O’Connor of Forced Entertainment (UK), Susanne Kennedy (Germany), and Julian Hetzel (Netherlands/Germany).

Pan Pan was founded in 1993 in Dublin and has toured its work internationally to major venues such as BAM, the Lincoln Centre, the Barbican, and NCPA Beijing, as well as Sydney and Melbourne Festivals. The company has received numerous national and international awards, including the Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh International Festival.

Since inception, Pan Pan has produced 59 works with 112 partners, playing at 162 venues and 66 festivals worldwide. Its vision is to create new ways for audiences to experience performance and scenography, while supporting and challenging artists through collaboration and risk-taking.

The company’s work combines original writing with innovative interpretations of existing texts, blending artistic disciplines to question theatre’s conventions. Pan Pan presents in diverse formats and spaces—from traditional theatres to site-specific and outdoor settings— making their work accessible and engaging for varied audiences.

Pan Pan maintains strong international networks, believing that collaboration benefits artists and enriches Irish audiences when these experiences return home.

Gavin Quinn is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Pan Pan, Ireland’s longest-established contemporary theatre company. Pan Pan has toured extensively across Europe, the USA, and Asia with formally adventurous and critically acclaimed work that interrogates the boundaries of theatre and performance. Recent work includes Exit, Pursued by a Bear; an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – told from the perspective of the Bear at DTF 2024; HISTORY PLAY - featuring a cast of ten eminent Historians performing live each night, DTF 2023; The Sudden at Dublin Dance Festival 2023, where the lines between dance, dance theatre and performance art blur – “Like trying to nail meaning to a Jackson Pollock, to confine the richness, ingenuity, artistry and imagination of The Sudden to a given is to miss the point entirely.”– The Arts Review. The First Bad Man, a performative book club based on the novel by Miranda July, at the National Theatre Studios London, Lincoln Center at Under the Radar NYC and Rising Festival, Naarm/Melbourne.

Other credits include; Brave New World, The Tempest & NŌ NŌ NŌ, Theater Bonn; The Seagull and Other Birds at NCAP Beijing and Abrons NYC 2014; Embers and All That Fall by Samuel Beckett, BAM, Lincoln Center; The Crumb Trail by Gina Moxley, PS 122 NYC; Oedipus Loves You by Simon Doyle & Gavin Quinn, PS 122 NYC, HAU Berlin.

Quinn was a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grantee in 2007 and won the Herald Angel Award at Edinburgh International Festival 2013.