Beth Chalmers nominated for Best Voice Acting – Irish Animation Awards

Huge congratulations to Beth Chalmers who has been nominated for Best Voice Acting in the Irish Animation Awards for her work on Coop Troop – The Animauville Horror, by Belfast’s Sixteen South.

Beth voices ‘Flo’ in this brilliant series about a gang of five unlikely heroes eager to escape their dull farm life, on a mission to help any animal with a problem.

The 2025 Irish Animation Awards take place in Galway on Saturday May 24th. Find out more here.

Beth is an actress and comedy writer, best known for her TV roles in Finding Alice and Appletree Yard. She’s also very experienced in animation, including Numberblocks, Odo, Mike the Knight and Henry Hugglemonster.

About the show: ‘Funny, fast, farcical, and feathery, The Coop Troop is Sixteen South’s first show for an older age group (5 – 9) and its first CGI animated series. It features the entertaining exploits of a gang of five unlikely heroes: hyperactive rabbit Maggie, eccentric inventor Flo the chicken, bon vivant swine Clive, excitable lamb Billy and enigmatic egg, Jo d’Oeuf. Thirsty for adventure to escape their mundane farm life, The Coop Troop’s mission is to help any animal with a problem – and they’re kept very busy by the precious, pampered pets of neighbouring town, Animauville.

When their red telephone rings, somebody needs help, so the Troop set off in their ingeniously – if haphazardly – modified chicken Coop to provide it. No matter how simple the problem, The Coop Troop will always come up with a way to solve it – usually in the most roundabout, over-the-top way possible, resulting in an escalating comedy of ridiculous events as each mission snowballs out of control. As they frantically try to get things back on track they attract more chaos at every turn – but with The Coop Troop, satisfaction is always (eventually) guaranteed!’