A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTORS
Joy, pleasure, laughter and outrage. Fringe doesn’t whisper, it shouts. Fringe is a space for artists, technicians, producers - and us the festival team, to play, provoke, excite, support and challenge.
As recent graduates from UCC, Cork Fringe gives us agency and empowerment as emerging art makers - Fringe represents our own early steps in the arts industry. Fringe is a project and provides the space and support for all of us to figure it out.
Our first festival demonstrated the need for an outlet in Cork City with an authentic understanding of the very first steps of a creative’s career. Fringe represents a real, supported and honest platform for those that have never ‘played’ before, and for ourselves as emerging creatives embracing Fringe as a playground.
Alongside our festival we also undertook research research and development across the International Fringe Network to see what makes other festivals tick and to weave our learning back into Cork.
As a team of emerging practitioners, we are grateful to be continually mentored by a network of established arts organisations like Cork Midsummer Festival, Cork Theatre Collective, Cork Opera House, The Everyman and Lavit Gallery who have continued to nurture and hold space for us in the city.
We can’t wait to bring Fringe back to Cork. To continue to encourage emerging artists to keep being brave, weird, to play unabashedly and to grow as creatives in a supportive playground for the arts.
Ineke Lavers & Daniel Cremin
Co-Founders & Directors of Cork Fringe
DANIEL CREMIN
Daniel Cremin is an Irish producer and magician from Cork who develops high calibre theatre work, through writing, producing and directing. From his own one man magic plays IT’S ALL AN ACT! (2023: Dance Cork Firkin Crane) and WHY MAGIC? (2025: The Everyman) to directing musicals such as Grease (2024: Dance Cork Firkin Crane) and starring in Summer Revels! (2024: Cork Opera House), Daniel’s experience is coloured through a diverse spectrum of theatrical lenses.
Daniel has most recently produced the Cork Opera House theatrical tour as part of their 170th anniversary closing celebration.
As a magic consultant, Daniel works with musicals and plays that wish to add magical elements to their productions, and is currently working with the Cork Opera House Pantomime creative team. Daniel has worked on productions at The 3Olympia (Dublin), Cork Opera House (Cork), The Everyman (Cork) and The National Opera House (Wexford) as well as working on a number of TV series and specials with RTÉ.
INEKE LAVERS
Ineke Lavers is an international arts producer based between Cork, Ireland and Abu Dhabi, UAE. She has worked across the areas of education, marketing, museum studies and festival development and centres an interdisciplinary approach to arts practise throughout her career. Alongside working as a producer with Sounds From a Safe Harbour and as creative and administrative consultant for The Guesthouse Project, Ineke also recently produced Gift Horse Theatre's don't copy me (copy) as part of Dublin Fringe Festival in 2025 and Voices of Irish Farmers: A Love Story with Food Tank and Bord Bia as part of Scene + Heard, 2026. Lavers is currently Assistant Producer at The Everyman Theatre in Cork.
Internationally, she has represented Ireland as an industry delegate for Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, Fringe Italia, Reykjavik Fringe and the World Fringe Congress in Stockholm & Turku.
Across Ireland, Lavers has worked with Cork Opera House, Attic Projects, Cork Midsummer Festival, First Cut Youth Film Festival, Cork Theatre Collective & Blackwater Valley Opera Festival.
