Home | About | Contact Us

The Arts Council Playography Na Gaeilge

People

Deirdre Kinahan

-

Deirdre Kinahan is a Dublin-based playwright and theatre producer who founded and ran Tall Tales Theatre Company for 15 years and is currently a board member of Theatre Forum Ireland. Deirdre wrote her first play in 1999 when a group of women at Ruhama Women's Project asked her to write a play about their lives as prostitutes. Be Carna was widely regarded as a powerful debut. Her play Moment played at the Bush to critical acclaim and sell out audiences in 2011 whilst her latest play These Halcyon Days won a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival 2013. Her new play Spinning opened at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2014. Deirdre has also been part of the Open Court season at the Royal Court with a play about the Irish economic crisis.

Company Jobs

Job Title Company
Artistic Director Tall Tales Theatre Company

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Attaboy, Mr. Synge! Deirdre Kinahan
Bé Carna Deirdre Kinahan
Bogboy Deirdre Kinahan
Dear Ireland I Una McKevitt Deirdre Kinahan Blindboy Boatclub Zoe Ní Riordáin Emmet Kirwan Karen Cogan Rosaleen McDonagh Jimmy Murphy David Ireland Ursula Rani Sarma Jody O'Neill Zhu Yi Pom Boyd Stacey Gregg Thomas Kane Byrne Sinéad Burke Dermot Bolger Carys D. Coburn Meadhbh McHugh Colm Keegan (2) Shane O'Reilly Phillip McMahon Nancy Harris Carmel Winters Darach Mac Con Iomaire Owen McCafferty Enda Walsh Frank McGuinness Iseult Golden Feli Speaks Sarah Hanly John Connors Gina Moxley Abbie Spallen Michael West Shaun Dunne Manchán Magan Sonya Kelly Eva O'Connor Margaret Perry Edna O'Brien Joseph O'Connor (1) Aoife Martyn Kit de Waal Arthur Riordan Andrea Molino Ciara Elizabeth Smyth John O'Donovan (2) Keith James Walker Mark O'Halloran
Embargo Deirdre Kinahan
Halcyon Days Deirdre Kinahan
Home Theatre (Ireland) Elaine Murphy Little John Nee Natalya O'Flaherty Finbarr Doyle Paul Mercier Clare Barrett (1) John Morton Shaun Dunne Jody O'Neill Feli Speaks Colin Murphy Marc Mac Lochlainn Jeda de Brí Eva O'Connor Carys D. Coburn Sorcha Fox Neil Watkins Gavin Kostick Fiona McGeown Roisin Ingle Sonya Kelly Sharon Mannion Bryan Burroughs Tom Swift Fionn Foley Deirdre Kinahan Duke Special Louise Lewis Robbie Blake Nancy Harris
Hue and Cry Deirdre Kinahan
Knocknashee Deirdre Kinahan
Maisy Daly's Rainbow Deirdre Kinahan
Melody Deirdre Kinahan
Moment Deirdre Kinahan
Passage Deirdre Kinahan
Rathmines Road Deirdre Kinahan
Rebecca's Robin Deirdre Kinahan
Rum and Raisin Alice Barry Deirdre Kinahan
Spinning Deirdre Kinahan
Summer Fruits Deirdre Kinahan
The Snow Child Deirdre Kinahan
The Tale of the Blue Eyed Cat Deirdre Kinahan
The Visit Deirdre Kinahan
Tiny Plays for Ireland Rosaleen McDonagh Mark Hennessy Niamh Creely Adrienne Michel-Long Gregory Rosenstock Evan Lee D'Alton Michael Cussen Ronan Geoghegan Ciara Ní Chuirc Jesse Weaver Antonia Hart Darren Donohue Joseph O'Connor (1) Michael West Dermot Bolger Michelle Read Deirdre Kinahan Karl O'Neill Rory Nolan Ardal O'Hanlon Gerald Murphy Jody O'Neill Colin Murphy Sean McLoughlin Rachel Feehily
Wild Sky Deirdre Kinahan

Adaptations

Play Title Playwright
The Unmanageable Sisters Deirdre Kinahan Michel Tremblay

Artistic Director

Play Title Playwright
Chance Maeve Ingoldsby Jennifer Mooney Jody O'Neill Lisa Keogh

Displacement by Jennifer Mooney; Foreign Affairs by Jody O'Neill; Even Clean Hands Cause Damage by Lisa Keogh; No One's Being Eaten by Sharks by Maeve Ingoldsby

Producer

Play Title Playwright
Melody Deirdre Kinahan
Passage Deirdre Kinahan