Aisling Byrne
- Director
- Writer
Aisling is a writer and director from Kildare, Ireland. She is the Artistic Director and co-founder of award-winning theatre companies Run of the Mill Arts and Talking Shop Ensemble. She was a finalist in the Virgin Media Discover's short film competition in 2021 for her screenplay Headspace which received its world premiere at New Hampshire International Film Festival ahead of its Irish premiere in November 2022. Other film work includes Vulnerable, commission by the Abbey Theatre as part of Dear Ireland 3 (later selected for Kerry International Film Festival 2021) and two poetry film adaptations of Eavan Boland's work Quarantine (Culture Night 2020) and Outside History (St Patrick's Festival 2010) in collaboration with Arcade Film. As of 2022 she is developing a feature screenplay adaptation of her stage play Singing for Survival, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. Work for theatre includes the co-creation of the award winning Making a Mark by Shaun Dunne.
