Eva O’Connor

Eva O’Connor is an award-winning writer and performer from Ogonnelloe Co. Clare. She makes work for stage and screen and runs Sunday’s Child theatre company with Hildegard Ryan. In 2018 Eva adapted her play Overshadowed as a short form television series for BBC Three, and it went on to win the Mind Media Award for Best Drama. In 2018/2019 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 referendum. In 2022 Eva adapted her Scotsman Fringe First winning play Mustard, co-produced by Fishamble, as a short film for RTÉ Storyland. In 2024, Eva was a writer on Fishamble’s trilingual project Taigh, Tŷ, Teach which toured to Ireland, Scotland and Wales.  And with her play Chicken, co-written by Hildegard Ryan, Eva won the Filipa Bragança Award for best solo female identifying performer at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023, Best Performer at the Dublin Fringe 2024, and won Pick of the Fringe Award at Adelaide Fringe 2025. The Kerryman,  Eva’s second play for Glass Mask Theatre premiered in Dublin in Spring 2026.  Eva was selected for the BBC Writer Spotlight programme 2025, and has several tv and film projects in development. Eva also founded Ireland’s first ever climate arts festival, Future Limerick, with Hildegard Ryan.