Shane O'Connor
Aisling O’Mara is a writer and actor from Dublin. She completed her B.A. in Acting at The Lir, Trinity College Dublin.
Writing credits include Next Please which she wrote for Bewley’s Café Theatre (nominated for Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2021/2022); Nothing But a Toerag (Smock Alley, then Bewley’s Café Theatre); 15 Minutes (Glass Mask Theatre); AGM (24 Hour Plays, Abbey Theatre); Rebel Rebel (co-written with Robbie O’Connor; Fishamble/ANÚ Productions).
Aisling is currently under commission with the Abbey Theatre and is developing a number of screen projects.
As an actor, she recently appeared at the Abbey Theatre in the world première of Nancy Harris’ Somewhere Out There You, directed by Wayne Jordan; and The Quare Fellow, directed by Tom Creed.
Recent screen credits include the leading role of Masha in the acclaimed feature film Redemption of a Rogue directed by Philip Doherty and the role of Aisling in the TV series The Vanishing Triangle (Sundance Now/Virgin Media).
Other stage acting credits include The Rose Tattoo (The Complex); Shit (Thisispopbaby); Tarry Flynn (Livin’ Dred), The Cartographer’s Pen (Ramor Theatre & Townhall Cavan); Nothing But a Toerag, The First Pegeen, Contractions (Bewley’s Café́ Theatre); In Our Veins, We Can’t Have Monkeys in the House (The Abbey Theatre); Sunder, Rebel Rebel, Jack Duggan’s War (ANÚ); Fierce Notions (Ill-Advised Theatre Company); Jess in Murder of Crows (Bitter Like A Lemon); and Hostel 16 (Smock Alley).
Screen credits include the role of Carmel in ITV series Redemption; Sutton in the TV series Cold Courage for Lionsgate; Sile in Taken Down for RTE; and Kellie in Paddy Breathnach’s feature film Rosie playing opposite Sarah Greene; and Jade Jordan’s short film The Colour Between directed by Dave Tynan.
