Playography is currently undergoing an essential rebuild, technical update and maintenance. All updates are on hold until the rebuild is complete. We are continuing to work hard in the background and are still accepting submissions which will be complete in Autumn 2023. For more information visit ITI's website.

FESTIVALS

Belfast International Arts Festival

OVERVIEW

  • Artistic Director & Chief Executive

    Richard Wakely

  • General Manager

    Naomi Conway

  • Development Manager

    Collette Mackin

  • Marketing Manager

    Sarah Kelly

  • Fundraising Officer

    Karin Jeffrey

  • Programming Policy

    Belfast International Arts Festival (BIAF) is Northern Ireland’s leading international arts festival dedicated to contemporary performance, media and visual arts, and programming that cuts across traditional artform boundaries, with key elements of commissioning and premiering new works and showcasing the best new and established Northern Irish artists to global audiences. Our mission is to be the preeminent, progressive international arts event within Northern Ireland, actively engaging both global and local communities in the richness and diversity of contemporary arts practice. With our partners throughout the entire city, we seek to create a distinctive environment for audiences to enjoy and participate in inspirational and transformative aesthetic experiences from world-class artists, thinkers and leaders. The annual event, which reflects and promotes both our changing city and the continuing evolution of creative practice from around the world, incorporates theatre, dance, music, visual arts, film, literature, and outdoor events, accompanied by outreach and education events. We use a mix of arts venues, non-traditional arts venues and public spaces across Belfast city centre and neighbourhoods. As a curated festival, participation is by invitation only. Established in 2015 out of the previous Belfast Festival at Queen’s, BIAF celebrates its 60th edition in 2022 with an expanded programme to mark this pivotal moment in our history and in wider society as we seek new ways of creating art, new modes of delivering an artistic programme and a new conversation with audiences.

    • NEW IRISH PLAYS PRODUCED BY BELFAST INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL

    Play Title Playwright
    A Minute of Your Time Richard Dormer Karl Wallace
    Sleep Show

    Devised by the company.

    ADAPTATIONS/TRANSLATIONS

    Play Title Playwright
    The Chance Jackie Doyle
    An adaptation of Peter Carey's original short story.