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Welcome to the Home Page of Josephine
Hogan
Born in Dublin, Ireland, Josephine trained as an
actress at the Oscar Theatre School in Dublin and
continued her training with various theatre companies in
London including the Royal Shakespeare Company. A mime
artist with the Oscar Mime Company, she also trained
with Pantomimteatern {Swedish National Mime Company}.
She studied voice at Ireland's National Theatre Company,
the Abbey Theatre, Jazz with Ellen Demos and appeared in
most theatres throughout Ireland and on Irish TV as well
as the BBC.
Juno and the Paycock
She currently resides in Buffalo, New
York and is Artist in Residence with the Irish Classical
Theatre Company and a member of the company's
Board of Trustees.
The Irish Classical Theatre Company has
achieved an outstanding reputation for artistic
excellence and has won more awards than any other
cultural institution in Western New York for production,
direction, acting and design.
The Arts Council of Buffalo awarded The
Irish Classical Theatre Company with their highest
honour Best Cultural
Institution for consistent excellence in
artistic standards
Favourites among the roles she has
played include Shirley
Valentine, the title roles in
O'Casey's Juno and the
Paycock, Brian Friel's Molly
Sweeney and Shaw's Mrs
Warren's Profession, Kyra in
Skylight by David Hare, Amanda
in Private Lives by Noel
Coward, Mrs Cheveley in An Ideal
Husband by Oscar Wilde and
Crazy Ladies, her critically
acclaimed one woman show. Recent shows include;
Out to Lunch, a revival of
Noel Coward's Private Lives
and her directing debut with The
Importance of Being Oscar by Michael
MacLiammoir.
For the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
she adapted A Man, A Life, A
Symphony based on the life and times of
Ludwig van Beethoven, for the Sight, Sound and Symphony
series with Vincent O'Neill. She played the Narrator in
Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale
and Laura in Noel Coward's Brief
Encounter and most recently in
Ellis Island, A Dream of America
by Peter Boyer.
She has co-hosted WKBW-TV Channel 7's
AM Buffalo a number of
times.
In 1997 Josephine was awarded the YMCA
Toast of Buffalo Award for her
contribution to the cultural life of Western New
York.
She also received an Arts Council
Award for continued Artistic Excellence
for work with the Irish Classical Theatre
Company.
Crazy
Ladies
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