biography:
I am a multidisciplinary performance maker from Longford, Ireland.
My work weaves together ecological research, autobiography, sound art, and site as a way of carving out space for new possibilities to emerge between live performance and physical landscape. My projects have brought audiences through city streets, back gardens, train stations, beaches, and a bog in the Irish Midlands which have led to the creation of a network of wildflower meadows across Ireland (1000 Miniature Meadows, 2020-23), the planting of 1000 indigenous trees (Root, 2021), and the development of an organic perfume made using botanicals from the Irish bog (Distillation, 2023). Often using autobiography as a starting point, my work attempts to stretch out new conversations around our human impact on the environment. I am interested in making work which has a positive environmental legacy beyond the moment of live encounter with an audience. I am driven to create gentle, subversive interventions in response to the climate crisis - and avoid leaning into the anxiety, greenwashing, and didacticism that often revolves around this topic in contemporary society.
In 2023, I was awarded the Arts Council’s Next Generation award. I was recently selected for the Norman Houston Multidisciplinary Commissioning Award with Solas Nua in Washington DC, in addition to being chosen to participate in the International Forum as part of Theatertreffen (Berlin Festspiele) 2023. To date, my work has been presented both nationally and internationally across Ireland, the UK, Canada, USA, and Serbia.
I’m also an experienced facilitator who has worked extensively with a number of organisations including the Ark, Dublin Theatre Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, and the Abbey Theatre to deliver workshops as part of wider community-engagement programmes. I also mentors artists, and have worked as a script reader for both the Abbey Theatre and Druid since 2021. In 2024, I was appointed as a Biodiversity Artist in Residence at Dublin City Council.
I hold a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College, and a Certificate in Art and Ecological Practice from the National College of Art & Design, Ireland.