Aoife is a London-based director and writer working across theatre and screen. Her practice is grounded in rigorous dramaturgical exploration, bold visual language, and a deep interest in the politics of form. She holds an MA in Theatre Directing from Royal Holloway (Distinction), where she trained under Katie Mitchell and was awarded the Alison Hodge Directing Prize for Excellence in Theatre Making. She also holds a First-Class degree in Theatre and English Literature from Warwick University.

Aoife’s work spans new writing, adaptation, and reimagined classic texts, with a particular interest in themes of disability, gender, and the liminal. Her productions have been staged at The Bush Theatre Studio, The Cockpit, and Brighton Fringe, and her writing has been shortlisted for the BFI Networks Script Lab. In 2023, she was the winner of the CFFS What You Will competition, with her monologue performed at the Criterion Theatre.

In 2024, Aoife was awarded the Chair’s Bursary by the Brighton Fringe Festival for Anatomy of Pain, which went on to receive a Keep It Fringe Fund grant from the Edinburgh Fringe Society in 2025. Anatomy of Pain was also awarded a Practitioner and Research and Development Grant by the Society for Theatre Research in 2025. She has undertaken observerships with the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg (Der Kirschgarten, directed by Katie Mitchell) and most recently with the Royal Ballet and Opera for Carmen (2025).

Aoife is currently Director-in-Residence at King’s College School, where she leads a variety of productions, mentors students, and facilitates outreach work. Her approach to theatre-making values accessibility, formal innovation, and collaborative process.