Róise Goan announced as Artistic Director & Chief Executive of Dublin Theatre Festival
Thu, 24 October 2024
The board of Dublin Theatre Festival today announced Róise Goan as the festival’s incoming Artistic Director and Chief Executive.
Róise Goan will take up the role in February 2025. This follows Willie White’s decision to step down from the role once he had completed DTF 2024.
Speaking today Una Carmody, Chair of the board of Dublin Theatre Festival said, “The Board of Dublin Theatre Festival could not be more pleased to have Róise Goan return to Dublin and bring her particular mix of intelligent programming and great fun to the festival. We are very excited to see how she will increase the reach and impact of our festival, with her depth of knowledge of the city as well as her breadth of international experience, and lead the team to achieve even more. The current discussions around Dublin and its character and nature are an opportune time to introduce her unique voice to the discourse.”
Róise Goan said, “It is a great honour for me to return to my hometown of Dublin to lead Dublin Theatre Festival, a festival that has shaped and inspired my love of theatre and my passion for the transformative impact festivals can have on audiences and the very fabric of a city. I look forward to picking up the baton from Willie White and working with a fantastic team and board at DTF in the new year, and starting to work with excellent artists from all over the world on creating the very best festival we can for the people of Dublin.”
Róise Goan, from Dublin, currently works as the artistic coordinator at VIERNULVIER in Ghent, Belgium and previously as artistic director and co-CEO of Artsadmin in London, UK. She has worked variously as an artist, producer, programmer and dramaturg in the performing arts.
Róise studied Drama and Theatre at Trinity College Dublin and graduated in 2004. From 2008-2013 she was director of the Dublin Fringe Festival, where she founded Fringe Lab. Thereafter she founded The Local Group, making occasional contemporary performance projects in off-the-grid locations in Ireland, alongside freelance work as a programmer and consultant. In addition to her work in the performing arts, she has written for television, most notably for the TG4 series Aifric.
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