Allie Whelan

Allie Whelan is the Marketing, Outreach and Engagement Manager at Fishamble: The New Play Company. Allie has worked on Mustard, King, The Humours of Bandon, In Two Minds, Breaking, Outrage, Heaven, Fight Night, The Black Wolfe Tone, The Leap, The Navigator Project, REFUGE and For Dolores with Fishamble.

Allie Whelan graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2018 with a first class honours degree in Drama & Theatre Studies. Since then she has worked in marketing, communications and social media roles with Dublin Fringe Festival (2021-2024), Poetry Ireland, Landmark Productions (Straight to Video, Walking with Ghosts, Ulysses 2.2, and Krapp’s Last Tape), Pan Pan (The Sudden, The Patient Gloria, The First Bad Man, Cascando and History Play), Glass Mask Theatre (Describe the Night, Country Music, Mother and Child and Celebrity), The RDS Visual Art Awards (2021-2024) and Music Network Ireland (2022-2023 Spring Touring Season).

Allie has also directed a number of productions, Pool (No Water) by Mark Ravenhill, winner of Best Production, Best Ensemble and Best Sound Design at ISDA 2018, By the Bog of Cats for Kildare Youth Theatre and The Terms and Conditions of Me and My Ma by Conor Burke in 2019.

As well as her work with Fishamble, Allie also works as a designer, photographer and occasionally as a chef.