Áine NÍ Laoghaire plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran
On this week’s Personality Bingo, Tom Moran chats with Áine NÍ Laoghaire. Áine trained as an actress at the BA in Acting Studies,The Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College and as a screen actor at Bow Street.
Áine most recently appeared in it’s getting harder and harder for me (Alice Malseed/Sarah Baxter) at The Mac in Belfast. She also appeared in Neon Westernfrom Conflicted Theatre at Cork Midsummer Festival and Dublin Fringe Festival. She has appeared in numerous theatre productions of late. She starred in The Abbey Theatre’s one women show Mise, Mollser based on Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and The Stars. Other roles include Rebecca in Frank McGuinness’s Factory Girls for The Everyman Theatre and Zoe in Zoe’s Play at The Ark.
Her screen credits include the upcoming webseries Long Dark Twenties, Ripper Street (BBC) Ros na Run (TG4) Standby (Rob Burke/Ronan Burke) Baróg Béir/Free Hugs (Gavin Fitzgerald), Live (Harbour Films), and Jane By the Sea ( Zanzibar Production )
As a voice-over artist, Áine regularly provides various character voices for Macalla Teo, and TG4. Shows include Dude, cá bhfuil mo phúca?, Dot and Peg Agus Chat among others. She also recently lent her voice to the Irish language version of Oscar nominated cartoon The Breadwinner by Cartoon Saloon.
As a dancer/performer Áine has collaborated with Amanda Coogan on her RHA show I’ll Sing You A Song From Around The Town, dancer Meagan O’Shea (International Associate Artist, Dance House) and visual artist Ella De Búrca, most notably in Exercises for Seeing Stars #3 at the Vienna Art Fair.
