Dolores Rice most recently directed The Sugar Wife by Elizabeth Kuti at The Lir, Dublin for her graduating production completing her MFA in Theatre Directing. She went on to assist Wayne Jordan at The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, directing Somewhere Out There You, by Nancy Harris.
Dolores is a recipient of the Irish Arts Council Theatre Project Award 2024 for her play The Station.
As a writer, Dolores has had three feature length screenplays optioned by Element Films, Hell’s Kitchen Films and The Irish Film Board. She served as writer-in-residence at The Tribeca Performing Arts Center for two consecutive years, writing and directing her play The Apology. Dolores also directed two new works by Neil Labute, Romance and The New Testament, both of which ran off– Broadway to critical acclaim.
As a filmmaker, she has written and directed two short films, Keep Talking and Detention and directed one other, Heaven in a Wildflower all of which played the festival circuit.
Before embarking on her own film projects, she worked in script development for Lambart Productions in Paris (Hairdresser’s Husband and Yvonne’s Perfume) as well as writing social commentary for print and web publications including iVenus and The Sunday Independent in Ireland.
She has taught at University College Dublin and The Sorbonne University, Paris, Alma Maters both. She holds an MA in Theatre from University of London, Goldsmiths College, and a BA in Philosophy and French from University College Dublin and an MFA in Theatre Directing, from Trinity College Dublin.
She works in New York and Dublin.