Josephine Hogan, Theatre Practitioner. Born and educated in Dublin Ireland, Josephine is a founding member of the Irish Classical Theatre Company and Red Thread Theatre. She received the YMCA's Toast of Buffalo Award for her contribution to the Cultural Life of Western New York, an Arts Council Award for Artistic Excellence for her work with the Irish Classical Theatre, a recipient of the Amherst Gaelic League’s Irish Woman of the Year Award and theatre awards for both performance and direction. Recently she directed Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, The Mai by Marina Carr and next season is scheduled to direct Brian Friel’s Faith Healer