Aoife Spillane-Hinks
Aoife Spillane-Hinks is an opera and theatre director and dramaturg based in Dublin.
She has a special interest in developing and directing new work.
She is the artistic director and co-founder and of Then This Theatre. She is the lead artist and founder of the Literary Department at Axis Ballymun.
Upcoming projects include Much ado about Nothing by Stanford at the 2026 Wexford Festival Opera.
Recent work includes directing Much Ado About Nothing by C.V. Stanford at the 2026 Wexford Festival Opera. Associate Director on Rusalka with Irish National Opera. Love at the End of Time by Roderick Ford, for Once Off Productions and Asylum Productions, at Project Arts Centre.
Other directing credits include Lady Gregory in America (Wexford Festival Opera); Ironbound (Abbey Theatre/Dublin Theatre Festival); Spirits Unsurrendered (Kilmainham Gaol/Royal Irish Academy of Music/Then This Theatre); Holy Mary by Eoin Colfer (Olympia Theatre/Breda Cashe Productions); The Spanish Tragedy (Dublin Youth Theatre); King Arthur by Henry Purcell (Royal Irish Academy of Music); A Thing I Cannot Name and 20 Shots of Opera (Irish National Opera); Spotless, Collected Stories and The Yellow Wallpaper (Then This Theatre); It’s Not About Love (Making Strange/Dublin Fringe); The Motherf***er with the Hat (ORion Productions); Run /Don’t Run (Project Arts Centre/National Tour); The 24 Hour Plays: Dublin (Abbey Theatre); Hamlet (Second Age); Boston Marriage (Gate Theatre/Dublin Theatre Festival); Sharon’s Grave, Waiting for Godot, and Our Class (PICT Classic Theatre, Pittsburgh, USA); Love at the End of Time (Project Arts Centre).
Aoife was a recipient of a 2022 Markievicz Award from the Arts Council.
Aoife trained as a director on the Rough Magic SEEDS programme. She holds a BA in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard University and an MA in Drama and Theatre Studies from NUI Galway.