Tishé Fatunbi

Tishé has most recently been cast as Abi in MEREDITH, a
new play by Erica Murray, directed by Annabele Comyn for the
Gate Theatre, Dublin.

Tishé most recently performed DEAR ROSA by Joy Nesbitt at
the Barbican London, for Landmark Productions; she also
played Young Felicia in OCTOPUS CHILDREN for
ThisIsPopBaby, and Eunice is A STREETCAR NAMED
DESIRE directed by Cathal Cleary for Once Off Productions &
Smock Alley Main Stage.

Screen roles include the part of Cassandra in the the
single-hander short YOU IN THE MIRROR, directed by Esosa
Ighodaro; the role of Ife in the short film THE KNIFE, directed
by Joy Nesbitt for Keeper Pictures; and the role of Temi in the
Screen Ireland funded short DANCE LIKE SOMEONE IS
WATCHING, directed by Esosa Ighodaro, which premiered at
the Galway Film Fleadh 2025.

Tishé performed her own show OLOLUFE at the Dublin Fringe
Festival 2024, for which she was nominated for best performer
at the Dublin Fringe Festival Awards.
Just prior she played the role of The Writer in LISTEN, A
BLACK WOMAN IS SPEAKING, directed by Joy Nesbitt; and
the role of Red in WE DANCE, directed by Praise Titues, for
which she was awarded Best Performer at the 2022 Irish
Student Drama Awards. Tishé was recently awarded the Black
and Irish award for Actor of the Year 2023 for her work on WE
DANCE.

Tishé played Saint Joan in a 2022 amalgamation of the work
of George Bernard Shaw titled GBS which was shot in the
National Gallery of Ireland, directed by Kellie Hughes. Tishé
played the lead role in RE:JOYCE a 2022 short film imagining
the life of a young modern, gender-bent James Joyce at UCD.
Tishé is a Dublin-based actor, writer, and theatre maker as
well as a co-founder of a newly launched black-run theatre
company named Arinola Theatre.