Director

Aoife Spillane-Hinks

Rusalka

Biography

Aoife Spillane-Hinks is a Dublin-based opera and theatre director and dramaturg with a particular focus on developing and directing new work. She is Artistic Director and co-founder of Then This Theatre, and Lead Artist and founder of the Literary Department at Axis Ballymun. For Irish National Opera, she directed Jenn Kirby's Dichotomies of Lockdown (20 Shots of Opera) and Amanda Feery's A Thing / Cannot Name. Aoife was also the narrator in Netia Jones & Brian Irvine's Least Like The Other. She recently directed Love at the End of Time by Roderick Ford for Once Off Productions and Asylum Productions at Project Arts Centre. Other directing credits include Caruso's 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); Purcell's King Arthur (Royal Irish Academy of Music); 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); and Sharon's Grave, Waiting for Godot, and Our Class (PICT Classic Theatre, Pittsburgh, USA).Aoife received a 2022 Markievicz Award from the Arts Council. She trained on the Rough Magic SEEDS programme and holds a BA in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard University and an MA in Drama and Theatre Studies from NUI Galway.

 March 2026