Welcome to Ethical Creatives
Stage. Live Performance
We're always busy here in Cork, collaborating with incredible creatives and contributing live performance to the city’s rich festival scene — from Cork Midsummer Festival to The Dragon of Shandon, St. Patrick’s Day parades, Culture Night, and fun community events like Cork on a Fork and Community / Block Parties, where Meet & Greet Characters of all sorts, like our Comedy Chefs, bring laughter and learning to all ages.
Women and girls are also proactively supported on stage. With 70% of theatre audiences being female, we believe in creating work that reflects that — developing strong, three-dimensional female leads and shining a light on HERstory.
Our journey has led us to work with some of the best in theatre, including Deborah Warner CBE (RSC & National Theatre), Tim Carroll (Shakespeare’s Globe), and Andy Farrell (Artistic Director, Contact Theatre).
Ethical practice is at the heart of everything we do. No matter who's involved, nor how much money is offered, if we don't believe it's right, we will not do it.
We aim to create safe, inclusive spaces for LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, differently-abled and those with SENs - that includes caring about those in non-human bodies too. Every Body was endowed with their life. We are not entitled to deny agency to others simply because we have the power or position to do so - this is why we ensure our sets, costumes, makeup, and catering are animal-body free. We work very hard to be genuinely sustainable, and kind — we use Ahimsa-based principles to guide us - that is, respect for all beings.
Every production (falafel) wraps with inclusive plant-based feasts and mocktails — because celebrating our successes and having fun matters!
So reach out and connect - it'd be lovely to collaborate.
Screen Work
As trained Creative professionals, we have been lucky to work with fantastic teams of creatives with our screen work spanning global networks and productions — and where our credits include: RTÉ (Nationwide) ITV USA (Real Housewives of New Jersey), BBC (Northwest Tonight), Denmark’s DR (Celebrity Reality TV), and our own Award Winning cinema campaign with IFTA-winning productions' cinematographer, and Oscars selected film teams and art designers.
We’ve worked alongside industry stalwarts like Jim Sheridan, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Fiona Shaw, David Tennant, Keeley Hawes and David Threlfall. These experiences inspire us to keep raising the bar in every project.
And for us the bar has to be? You guessed it, Ethics. Every production we work on upholds our Ahimsa (peace for all) policy — meaning we don’t engage with companies or content that perpetuates violence against sentient beings, human or non-human. Love for Every Body
We're committed to female representation.
With women making up 51% of the planet's human population, we actively seek to place women behind the camera and in front — not in token roles, but as full, complex characters leading the narrative, and the creative.
For us, storytelling should entertain and empower. The Creative Industries can lead in normalising inclusion. Art can reflect the full spectrum of life experience on Earth.
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Ethical Creatives is more than a name for us
— it’s a pledge.
Or maybe Ai says it better (??!)
- From shadows of nomenclature rises Ethical Creatives, your beacon of unwavering pledge.
Or ...
- No idle title adorns Ethical Creatives; 'tis our eternal bond, forged in virtue's flame.
You choose!
Community. Arts. Education
As qualified performance teachers, arts educators / workers, tutors, and facilitators, all our work is participant centred (as opposed to teacher centred imposition).
We're fortunate to have collaborated with and to consistently partner and work with an inspiring mix of Educational, arts, community organisations, NPOs and charities across Cork and beyond — including:
CCAL, Niche Community GC, Ashton and Douglas Community Schools' (incl Further Education departments), Traveller Visibility Group, and Cork City Partnership / Everyman Theatre outreach.
We've been guest lecturers on for example: 'What Box?!' - focussing on neurodivergent thinking & strengths for University Colleges Dublin and Cork.
We bring decades of UK secondary school syllabus, national curriculum and college-level (BTEC) performance teaching into our practice.
Much of our work today centres around inclusivity.
We are strong advocates for creative learning techniques in our practice. And we have a wealth of drama games and techniques that include devising, role-playing, improvisation, and using scripts (devised by participants) as a structural basis where supportive, helpful and useful too.
We specialise in working with neurodivergent individuals and those with different needs, ensuring every creative space we hold is welcoming, accessible, and empowering.
Internationally, we've facilitated arts and empowerment projects with NGOs and government bodies across Europe — including youth empowerment theatre for: minority women in Budapest, Hungary, programmes with the Spanish Government in the Balearic Isles, for local young people in community arts education centres like the Zion Centre, Manchester, UK and Empowerment through Drama projects in Strasbourg, insitu at Le Conseil de l'Europe (The Council of Europe).
This included securing funding from the European Youth Fund and working with youth groups in the Netherlands to deliver Empowerment projects across Finland, Sweden and the UK at Environmental Youth Festivals.
We also worked extensively as Youth Workers with Manchester City Council with a focus on Youth Centres, Clinics and Schools across Greater Manchester.
Before bringing the Comedy Chefs to Ireland, we developed this “Informance” project in the UK, with funding from the Primary Care Trust. We created NHS-backed educational videos for GP clinics and delivered fun, food-focused live shows at community events and primary schools.
Long before plant-based eating became le menu du jour, the thought leading and innovative Comedy Chefs initiated and supported the weekly distribution of 84,000 healthy, affordable plant-based meals to primary schools in the UK.
Tamasin MxCárthaigh Morrogh
Founder
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