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Aideen Howard

Aideen Howard has been Literary Director of the Abbey Theatre since 2006 where she has responsibility for commissioning new plays, supporting new playwrights and the Abbey Archive and the NUIG Abbey Archive Digitisation Project. On behalf of the Abbey Theatre she has commissioned and worked alongside Ireland’s leading established and emerging writers. As Literary Director she has developed more than 30 new plays for the Abbey and Peacock stages including, most recently, Our Few and Evil Days by Mark O’Rowe, The Waste Ground Party by Shaun Dunne, Conservatory by Michael West and Quietly by Owen McCafferty. She is editor of Irish Shorts: New Plays from the Abbey Theatre published by Nick Hern Books. Aideen was the first Artistic Director of Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, where she programmed and ran a multi-disciplinary arts venue including a programme for children. There, she collaborated and co-produced with The Ark on a number of projects. She has also worked as literary consultant to Arts Council projects and as dramaturg at the Abbey Theatre. Recently she curated the poetry programme of the Mountains to Sea Festival in Dun Laoghaire. Aideen holds an MA in Drama from UCD and a BA in English and German from Trinity College. Source: Commons

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