Deirdre Kinahan

Deirdre is actively involved in the Irish Theatre Scene both as playwright, Artist in residence at Solstice Arts Centre and board member of Theatre Forum Ireland. She was a founding member and Artistic Director of Tall Tales Theatre Co. for 15 years. Her work is translated into many languages and produced regurlarly both in Ireland and on the International stage. Deirdre’s most recent play These Halcyon Days played at Dublin Theatre Festival in 2012 and is now touring to New York, throughout Ireland and to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Landmark productions. It was also nominated as best play by the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2012. Her play MOMENT was a major hit at the Bush Theatre in 2011 and in Chicago in 2012. Hue & Cry and BOGBOY have won critical acclaim at the First Irish Festival in New York, winning three awards and critics pick in the New York Times. Deirdre has received many awards and bursaries, most notably she was a winner of the Tony Doyle Award, BBC Northern Ireland in 2009.
Deirdre is currently under commission to the Royal Court Theatre London, Fishamble Theatre Company Dublin and BBC Radio 4. She is also developing work with Altered Image Films UK and is co-writing her first feature film with the support of the The Irish Film Board. She has two other plays in development and is published by Nick Herne Books.
Writing for theatre includes: THESE HALCON DAYS Dublin Theatre Festival/Tall Tales & Solstice Arts Centre, BROKEN Fishamble, Dublin 2012, Transgressor, Bush Theatre 2011, Where’s My Seat, Bush Theatre 2011, BOGBOY (Tall Tales & Solstice Arts Centre, New York & National Tour); MOMENT (Tall Tales & Solstice, Bush Theatre and National Tour); Salad Day (The Abbey Theatre); Hue & Cry (Bewleys Café Theatre & Tall Tales, Glasgow, Romania, Bulgaria, Paris and New York); Melody (Tall Tales, Glasgow, national tour); Attaboy Mr Synge (The Civic Theatre national Tour); Rum & Raisin (Tall Tales & Nogin Theatre Co. national tour); Summer Fruits (Tall Tales, national tour); Knocknashee (Tall Tales & The Civic Theatre, national tour); Passage (Tall Tales, The Civic Theatre); Bé Carna (Tall Tales, national tour and Edinburgh Fringe Festiva).
For children; Maisy Daly’s Rainbow(Tall Tales & Solstice); Rebecca’s Robin (Bewleys Café Theatre); Show Child (Livin Dred); The Tale of the Blue Eyed Cat (Livin Dred).

She also worked as script mentor on The Hijabi Monologues, for Axis Arts Centre, Dublin.