Laoise Murray

I'm Laoise Murray (she/her), an emerging Irish director, performer, and maker. I am a co-founder of tasteinyourmouth, an experimental theatre company that makes work that is uncanny, shiny, and feminist. I also work as a solo artist - I have been a performer for many years but am looking to develop my directing practice.
I strive to create, in a collaborative context, performances that are original, irreverent and magical. I consider the audience not as passive spectators, but active participants - therefore the work I make contains elements of interactivity, poses rather than answers questions, disrupts convention, and challenges traditional form. I aim to create intimate and visceral experiences that will stay with audiences long after they return home: the experience is given in the spirit of a gift. I am inclined toward work that appreciates, but can go beyond, language: image-based and visually striking, it draws from visual and performance art, and takes the body as it’s starting point.

Credits

CREATOR - You're Needy (Sounds Frustrating), Online Presentation as part of Corcadorca's SHOWOnline 2020, 1 night, Nov 2020
DIRECTOR - A Woman Under A Roof, Smock Alley, 3 nights, Feb 2020
CREATOR - After Your Ass, Triskel Arts Centre, 1 night, Dec 2018
CREATOR - Bloom, Pearse Centre, 5 nights, Nov 2018
CREATOR - It's a Puffin Classic, Samuel Beckett Theatre, 5 nights, Feb 2018
DIRECTOR - The Baltimore Waltz, Samuel Beckett Theatre, 3 nights, Dec 2017
CO-DIRECTOR - Punk Rock, Players Theatre, 5 nights, Oct 2017
DIRECTOR - The Clean House, Samuel Beckett Theatre, 2 nights, May 2017

Training

- Currently being mentored by Marie Brassard, Takashi Masuyama, Dylan Tighe, and Aya Ogawa.
- DAS Arts Feedback Method Workshop
- Thomas Prattki Centre, Berlin - Devising workshops
- Butoh workshops with Tenko Ima, Minako Seki and Masaki Iwana
- BA Drama and Theatre Studies, Trinity College Dublin