Creative Performance Hour: Tierra Porter, Nathan Patterson, Priyangee Guha and Leanne Brennan

MC: Louisa Ní Éideáin

Venue: Red Room, UCD Student Centre                 3:20pm - 4:20pm

Tierra Porter (She/They)

Tierra Porter is an actor and musician of Indigenous American, African, and Puerto Rican descent hailing from Cordele, Georgia. She is a recent First Class Honors Graduate from the Lír Academy (BA Acting). Credits while studying at the Lír include The Duchess of Berwick in Lady Windermere’s Fan, Paulina in A Winter’s Tale, Vera in Bulrusher, Delphine in Untitled and Sarah Worth in The Sugar Wife. 

Previous to her training, Tierra regularly performed and directed for Missoula Children’s Theatre touring internationally. Other roles include Ronette in Little Shop of Horrors, Rusty in Footloose at the Strand Theatre in Marietta, Georgia and Deloris Van Cartier in Sister Act at the Missoula Community Theatre in Missoula, Montana. Tierra has begun her acting career in Ireland on the Gate stage in a Roddy Doyle Adaptation of J.M Barrie’s Peter Pan. She went on to play Sarah Worth in The Sugar Wife at the Abbey. More recently she has appeared in The Jesus Trilogy (Dublin Theatre Festival), Beards (LemonSoap), The Lesbian Revue of World History (LemonSoap) and Octopus Children (THISISPOPBABY). Screen credits include Tall Tales & Murder and Bucking Fastard.

Nathan Patterson (He/Him)
Nathan Patterson is an actor from Dublin. He graduated from the Lir Academy in July 2024. Since graduating, he has appeared in TG4's new Irish-language childrens' series Am Abú, Trans What You Will's viral rehearsed reading of Twelfth Night, as well as several shows in Dublin Fringe Festival, Cork Misdummer Festival, and Smock Alley's Scene & Heard Festival. He will next act as part of Brontannas Children's Festival, and Backstage Theatre Longford's Lasta Double Bill, playing Joe in Forbidden Fruit. He's thrilled to get involved with Neuroconvergence 2025, and will be presenting an excerpt of his new play, Green Room, featuring himself and Felix O'Connor."

Priyangee Guha (She/They)

Priyangee (Pri) is a lawyer and celebrant. Their special interests include reformative justice, healing and creating better legal and social response systems to violence in our society. Pri is autistic and dyslexic. Her aim in life is to be a kinder version of who she is today, including being kinder to herself. When they are not working, studying or napping, you will find her surrounded with yarn or researching accessibility aids. 

Leanne Brennan (She/Her)

Leanne attended UCD School of Psychology for her Higher Diploma and Masters. She is currently completing her doctoral training in Counselling Psychology at TCD. As a late in life diagnosed AuDHD she is still on a journey of self discovery. Her research interests, work and stand up all reflect her humorous and often tragic insights on life before and after receiving the missing jigsaw piece. She makes no apologies about how her brain works and now embraces what she would have previously masked. Humour has been a survival mask throughout life. Now she reconnects with her humorous side as a way to take the mask off and tell her story.