Eva O’Connor is an award-winning Irish writer and performer based in London, who creates work for stage and screen with long-time collaborator Hildegard Ryan. In 2018, she was named as one of Broadcast’s Hot Shots.
In 2018, Eva adapted her play Overshadowedas a short form television 8 x 10’ series for Rollem/BBC Three, which went on to win the Mind Media Award for Best Drama. She has written and starred in several short films, including Dance Me Clean, produced by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Bad Person, which was selected for Screen Ireland’s flagship short film scheme Focus Shorts, and Mustard, adapted from her award-winning play for RTÉ Storyland. She was selected for the BBC Writer Spotlight programme 2025 and has several TV and film projects in development.
Eva’s latest play For Dolores, produced by Fishamble, is currently touring Ireland and will be performed at Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh for the whole of August 2026 as part of the Culture Ireland Showcase. The Kerryman, her second play for Glass Mask Theatre premiered in Dublin in Spring 2026.
Her previous play Chicken, co-written with and directed by Hildegard Ryan, was performed by Eva at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023, where it won a Lustrum Award and The Filipa Bragança Award for best solo female identifying performer. It went on to win Best Performer at the Dublin Fringe 2024 and Pick of the Fringe Award at Adelaide Fringe 2025.
Her play Mustard won a Scotsman Fringe First and a Lustrum Award at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 and a Critics Circle Award at the Adelaide Fringe 2023. She was a writer on Fishamble’s trilingual project Taigh, Tŷ, Teach which toured to Ireland, Scotland and Wales in 2024. In 2018 and 2019, her play Maz and Bricks, produced by Fishamble and directed by Jim Culleton, toured in the run up and aftermath of the Repeal the 8th Amendment.
Eva and Hildegard continue to create new work through Sunday’s Child Theatre Company and have also founded Ireland’s first ever climate arts festival, Future Limerick.
Eva O’Connor is represented by Frances Arnold