Carndonagh native Caitríona Mc Laughlin is an Associate Director at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland’s national theatre. She was awarded a Clore Fellowship in 2007. Caitríona is also Co-Artistic Director of the Playground Studio, London. She has been invited several times as director/dramaturge to LAByrinth Theatre Company’s Summer Intensive in New York. Caitríona won Best Director for ‘Raftery’s Hill’ in the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards in 2019.