l Fouere was born on the west coast of Ireland to Breton parents.
l After being drawn to both the visual arts and the stage, she began acting in 1976.
l In 1980, Fouere co-founded Operating Theatre with composer Roger Doyle.
l Fouere went on to work with the Abbey, the Gate, the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
l Fouere created the title role in Steven Berkoff's version of Salome, was directed by Tom Murphy in his play Bailegangaire and appeared in plays by Brian Friel, Marina Carr, Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter.
l Works with Operating Theatre include The Diamond Body (1984-1987), The Pentagonal Dream (1986), Angel/Babel (1999) and Here Lies (2005-2007).
l Fouere has won numerous best actress awards, has contributed to several theatre journals, has acted opposite Sean Penn on film and appeared on television in Ballykissangel.
l A documentary film, Theatre in the Flesh, charted a year in Fouere's life and was shown on RTE in 2005.
l In 2011, Fouere toured the world with the Abbey Theatre in two plays written and directed by Mark O'Rowe, Terminus and The Broken Heart.
l Other recent stage credits include Gerald Barry's opera of The Importance of Being earnest, Maria de la Buenos Aires at Cork Opera House, The Rite of Spring and Petrushka with Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre at Sadler's Wells and Fouere's own translation of Laurent Garde's Sodome, my love in a co-production between Rough Magic and Fouere's own TheEmergencyRoom.
l riverrun was first seen at Galway Arts Festival, who are co-producers of the show with Cusack Projects Limited and TheEmergencyRoom.
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