Biog.

Fionnuala is an actor and writer based in Dublin. She is passionate about creating contemporary theatre work and writing bold new works for film and television. She received a first class honours degree in Drama and Theatre Studies in Trinity College Dublin. In 2017 she trained with Philippe Gaulier in Paris. She is a founding member of Chaos Factory theatre company, a physical theatre company with Venetia Bowe and Rachel Bergin. She is also the founder of Two Sparks production company, with Kate Gilmore.  She is currently being mentored by Dearbhla Walsh (Bad Sisters, Fargo, The Handmaid's Tale)

In September 2025, Fionnuala’s first feature film ‘Sonc’, will be filmed and she will play the leading role. Fionnuala was recently chosen for Screen’s Ireland’s Focus Shorts Scheme, with her production partner Kate Gilmore, with their film ‘Butterfly’. They will shoot the film in early 2026, directed by Natasha Waugh. In 2025, Fionnuala was commissioned by TG4 to write a long short film ‘Buachaillí | Cailíní’, as part of Céim Eile.

In 2024, Fionnuala’s debut short film ‘The Island’, premiered at Galway Film Fleadh and has since been screened at a number of festivals around Ireland and abroad. This was made through Screen Ireland’s Actor as Creator scheme. In 2023, Fionnuala won the Boyne Valley International Film Festival pitching competition with this film.

In 2024, Fionnuala and Matthew Malone got shortlisted to the final 10 projects for the Virgin Media Discovers Award, with their comedy project ‘Inconceivable’.

For theatre, Fionnuala has made a number of works for the stage.

In 2022, Fionnuala co-created and performed in Hotel Happiness, which was presented in Project Arts Centre for Dublin Fringe Festival. In 2022 she also wrote Lúminaria, a work for young audiences which toured nationally to 9 venues. In 2020, Fionnuala made TWENTY FIFTY for Dublin Fringe Festival in collaboration with Dan Colley (made as part of DUETS initiative), which then toured to Mermaid Arts Centre, Camden People’s Theatre and Clonmel Junction Festival. Fionnuala’s first play HOSTEL 16 was a theatrical examination of Direct Provision in Ireland, produced in Dublin Fringe 2016. It was nominated for the Stewart Parker writing award and for Best Ensemble in the Fringe. She was also awarded a FUEL residency with Druid in 2015. She recently wrote Below Below, an 18 cast play for the Gaiety School of Acting graduating class, which premiered in Smock Alley in June 2019. She co-created Kiss Kiss Slap Slap with Chaos Factory, an experimental piece exploring rape culture, which premiered in the Dublin Fringe Festival 2018. She also co-created Morph Me, which premiered as a work in progress in Live Collision, 2018. They are currently developing Hotel Happiness, which will premier in 2022.

In 2021, she was a FLUX Artist in Residence at Project Arts Centre. She is a Six In the Attic alumni in the Irish Theatre Institute. In 2017/2018 Fionnuala was awarded the Next Generation award from the Arts Council. In 2019 she was a participant on the Pan Pan International mentorship programme, developing a new theatre piece, Watch Me (if you want), mentored by theatre-maker Johanna Freiburg (She She Pop/ Gob Squad). She was the only Irish artist to receive the i-Portunus mobility scheme, 2019, enabling her to develop this piece for three weeks in the Ballhaus Ost theatre, Berlin.  She has been a participant on The Next Stage (Dublin Theatre Festival, 2017), SPACE programme (The Performance Corporation, 2017), participant on the Belltable Mentorship programme (2017) and EUROPOLY residency in the Munich Kammerspiele (2016).