This much I know with writer and performer Joanne Ryan

From age 6, I was on stage. I started with school plays but it never occurred to me that it would become my job. I was an outgoing and precocious child, probably quite annoying. Which I think is a trend in only children because you spend so much time around adults.

I did an Arts degree and lived in Thailand for most of my 20s, teaching English and working as a freelance journalist and then an editor for The Bangkok Post. I started performing again when I moved back to Ireland in 2009.