Hailing from the north inner city, Louise makes site-specific and immersive art works within communities of space, place and interest. Louise is a member of Aosdána and a current PhD candidate at TU Dublin. Since co-founding ANU in 2009, she has created all of the company’s multi-award winning theatre work to date, including: Cyclone (Dublin Theatre Festival), The Good Luck Club (commissioned by the National Archives of Ireland), The Dead (co-production with Landmark Productions) Starjazzer (Dublin Theatre Festival), Hammam (Abbey Theatre), Old Ghosts by Marina Carr (Irish National Opera co-production) Staging The Treaty (National Concert Hall), Lolling and All Hardest of Woman (with Emilie Pine for Dublin Theatre Festival, Museum of Literature Ireland, Ulysses 2.2) The Book of Names (co-production with Landmark for Dublin Theatre Festival / Dublin Port), The Party to End all Parties (Dublin Theatre Festival commission), Faultline (Gate Theatre co-production for Dublin Theatre Festival), The Anvil (Manchester International Festival), The Lost O’Casey (Abbey Theatre, Dublin Theatre Festival) winner of 3 Irish Times Theatre Awards, including best new play), Torch, St. Helens UK (Arts Council England, ambition for excellence award), Hentown (Dublin City Council commission / Winner of Irish Times Theatre Award Best New Play), Sunder, The Sin Eaters (Dublin Theatre Festival) These Rooms in collaboration with CoisCeim for London International Festival of Theatre, NOW1418 and Dublin Theatre Festival, winner 2 Irish Times Theatre Awards, PALS in collaboration with the National Museum of Ireland, winner Irish Times Theatre Award, Angel Meadow (Winner Best Production and Best Ensemble Awards at Manchester Theatre Awards, Nominated for Best Director Award, UK National Theatre Awards / HOME Manchester), SOMME (National Concert Hall), On Corporation Street (HOME Manchester), THIRTEEN (Winner 2 Irish Times Theatre Awards), Proclaiming a Republic (National Museum Ireland Commission), Living The Lockout, REBEL REBEL, Glorious Madness, Yellow, Basin, Judging Shaw (Royal Irish Academy), and the Multi Award Winning Monto Cycle encompassing: Laundry, The Boys of Foley Street, Vardo and World End’s Lane. Laundry was chosen to represent 2011 as part of the Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks (2019)

Freelance work includes An Treun: The Summoning of the Lost (Macnas) The Pull of the Stars (Gate Theatre), The Homecoming of Joseph Grace, Cork Midsummer Festival, An Old Song, Half Forgotten (Abbey Theatre), Mabel’s Magnificent Flying Machine and The Steward of Christendom (Gate Theatre), The Saviour (Dublin Theatre Festival, Landmark, Edinburgh International Festival, Cork Midsummer Festival, Irish Rep. NYC), BAIT / Theatre for One (Landmark Productions) Test Dummy (Nominated Best New Play, Irish Times Theatre Awards), Deep (Cork Opera House), The End of the Road (Fishamble), Across the Lough (Performance Corporation), The Bell Room (Upstate), Juno and The Paycock (FLAC) HOME (Draoicht), Secret City, Right Here Right Now, The Baths, Demeter Project Cultural Olympiad Production all for (Prime Cut Productions). At the LIR academy, Louise has directed No Tall Flowers, The Hush Hush Men, Seablind, What the Water brings, The Nightingale Court, Coop, Given the Day, The Reflector, Silence is Requested and Black Church TV and film includes Fair City (RTE), The Line We Hold (Lir Academy) Canaries (Commissioned by Dublin Port), Hecatomb (Gate Theatre), Falling Out of Standing (TATE UK) and HawksNest. She was awarded a screen Ireland award to develop a TV miniseries based on her play HENTOWN.