Featuring an all-female student cast from RIAM Opera and filmed by students from the National Film School at IADT during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. DreamCatchr premieres at the Dublin International Film Festival 2024 in a double bill programme alongside Breakin' Brothers, a short film by David Bolger for CoisCéim Dance Theatre.

Jane and Polly live together in an apartment, Jane works in IT as a coder creating computer software, and Polly works in Real Estate. Jane has become addicted to technology and social media, and is obsessed with developing a computer application to capture her dreams – DreamCatchr – little by little, she creates her own pixelated reality which Polly can’t enter.

The opera takes place in an intermediate world between mundane reality and fantasy, as the characters attempt to understand one another and the different world that technology has created for all of us. Alternately comical, bizarre and disturbing DreamCatchr explores the borders between dreams and waking life, sisterhood and selfhood.

Composer: Kevin O'Connell
Libretto: Lily Akerman
Directors: Hélène Montague and John Comiskey
Conductor: Andrew Synnott
Producer: Kathleen Tynan
Director of Photography (Location): Ciarán Tanham
Lighting Director (Studio): Andrew Leonard
Editor: Paul Heary
Score Audio Realisation: Jonathan Nangle
Set, Costume & Make-Up Design: Students from Design for Stage & Screen at IADT
Location & Studio Recording: Students from the National Film School at IADT
Sound Editor: Mariana Von Seckendorff
Sound Design: Mariana Von Seckendorff, Lance Hogan    
Re-recording Mixer: Lance Hogan

Jane: Megan O'Neill
Polly: Hannah O'Brien

Orlaith Mulholland
Rachel Murphy
Cerys MacAllister (Boss)
Louise Florence
Eílis Fox
Niamh Sheehy (Spoon)
Ellen Kelly (Canteen Waitress)
Laura Aherne
Sophie Bellamy
Orla Bruce
Anna-Maria Husca
Stephanie Kinsella