Deirdre Kinahan is an award-winning playwright. She is an elected member of Aosdána, Ireland's elected organisation of outstanding artists and Literary Associate with Meath County Council Arts Office. Deirdre collaborates with artists and theatres all over the world and has a large canon of regularly produced plays to her credit. She is published by Nick Hern Books.

Best Known Plays include: The Unmanageable Sisters, Rathmines Road, Moment, Halcyon Days, Bogboy, Hue & Cry, Melody, Spinning and her Irish Revolutionary Trilogy Wild Sky, Embargo and Outrage. Deirdre works regularly with the Abbey Theatre, Landmark Productions and Fishamble Theatre Company in Ireland.

She also collaborates regularly with theatres in the UK (Bush, Old Vic, Pentabus, Royal Court), Europe (Stat Theatre Mainz, Ateneum Warsaw) and America (Irish Arts Centre, Solas Nua, Manhattan Theatre Club, Steep Theatre, Irish Theatre Chicago).

Recent works include An Old Song Half Forgotten for the Abbey Theatre & Sofft productions, The Saviour for Landmark Productions, In the Middle of the Fields for Solas Nua Washington DC, The Visit for Draiocht & Dublin Theatre Festival, Bloody Yesterday for Glassmask Theatre.

Deirdre has a number of new Theatre Projects in development, she also has years of experience as a producer and enjoys curating or participating in multi-genre artistic projects.

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