Hanan is a theatre maker based in Cork City who creates new experimental work. With a focus on design, Hanan shapes his work through manipulation of sound, sculpture and lighting. He uses design to assemble moments in time - live theatre, showing emotion, drama and texture within human stories. These's stories are often drawn from personal experiences and lead to the construction of fictional characters through a process of writing and then brought to life in collaboration with actors and movers.

Hanan's primary artistic role is as theatre writer and director inspired by his background as a lighting designer. As a result, Hanan’s initial impulse to create comes from a visual and aesthetic perspective. He considers form first and starts with atmosphere or feeling rather than character or plot as seen in narrative based traditions. Hanan is passionate about creating new forms of theatre and finding a way to make them accessible to Cork audiences.

Hanan has presented work at Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Imagine Arts Festival, Quarter Block Party, TDC SHOW Program, off site at Electric Picnic and has attended the MAKE residency.

Hanan has facilitated theatre making workshops with groups coordinated by Graffiti Theatre, the Everyman Theatre, YMCA Cork and Lantern Project.

Most notably, Hanan worked on The Everyman Theatres The Heart of a Dog and Gare St Lazare’s Irish Times Award winning production of The Realistic Joneses.

He is currently a recipient of the Arts Council Theatre Bursary Award which is funding a theatre and visual art cross-disciplinary research programme in the National Sculpture Factory Cork.