Play School

Felicity Ward is a stand-up comic whose personal experience of mental illness is at the core of her comedy work. Though passionate about her career, she says persistent anxiety has dampened the joy of making people laugh.

Patricia Dennis spent three years of her childhood in a Japanese-run internment camp in the Philippines during World War II. After escaping to Australia with her family, she became a successful model, actress and businesswoman.

Rory O'Neill is an entertainer and gay rights activist whose flamboyant alter-ego - a seven-foot drag queen called Panti Bliss - became the face of Ireland's successful marriage equality campaign.