About

Dylan Tighe is an actor, writer, theatre director and singer-songwriter from Dublin. He graduated with a BA in Spanish and Italian from Trinity College Dublin (1st) and an MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths, University of London (Distinction). Productions include: No Worst There is None inspired by the work and life of Gerard Manley Hopkins (The Stomach Box, Best Production Irish Times Theatre Awards 2009 ), The Trailer of Bridget Dinnigan - a collaboration with Blanchardstown Traveller Development Group and The Irish Traveller Movement to create a new version of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba featuring a cast of Irish Traveller women, RECORD -a music-theatre performance critiquing the medical model of mental health, and Medea/Medea- winner of the Gate Theatre London/Headlong New Directions award 2009. Dylan has performed with many Irish companies including the Abbey Theatre, Fishamble, Rough Magic and has collaborated and toured extensively with Dead Centre (Chekhov’s First Play), Pan Pan, and with Slovenian company Via Negativa. Record (RTÉ Drama on One), a radio-play based on his stage show of the same name, was nominated for the Prix Europa 2013. Pulse Music / Ceol Cuisle (RTÉ Drama on One) created with musician Seán Mac Erlaine and exploring the imagination of poet Michael Hartnett was nominated for the Prix Nova 2015. His latest work for radio ‘No Love Lost’ inspired by the Fassbinder film ‘Fear Eats The Soul’ was broadcast in 2021. He contributed an essay to That Was Us: Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance (Oberon) and a chapter to Performance, Madness and Psychiatry (Palgrave). Dylan has released two critically acclaimed albums, most recently Wabi-Sabi Soul in 2016 described by The Irish Times as “framing reflective music with remarkable eloquence”. He is currently writing a book of non-narrative memoir and finishing a video work for gallery exhibition which re-works his theatre performance ‘Pasolini’s Salò Redubbed’.