English, Media and Creative Arts

Aideen Wylde is an actor, writer and researcher with a PhD in Drama  & Theatre Studies from the University of Limerick with specialisms in playwriting, ethnodrama and staging minority culture. Aideen is an Artistic Director of BrokenCrow Theatre, and as an actor trained at the TUD Conservatory of Music & Drama,  and holds a MA in Theatre Studies from UCC.

Her most recent play, FOUND is inspired by her personal connection to the province of Newfoundland, Canada and her late father Donal Wylde's work there for the Radharc tv documentary series in 1981. These programmes have since gained something of a cult audience in both the Irish and Canadian ex-pat communities as snapshots of a particular moment in a passing diasporic heritage.  

Aideen is currently working with researcher and playwright Dr. Elaine Desmond on Staging Sherkin - the development of a new play with non-arts professionals on Sherkin Island. The project will examine the impact of the arrival of 64 Ukrainian refugees to live on the island in 2022, exploring the plight of these refugees, and supporting community cohesion through a creative venture.

For BrokenCrow her first solo work, Levin & Levin, premiered in Cork and Dublin in 2017. She has also appeared in a number of the company's other productions. The company are currently Theatre Artists in Residence at the Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford and formerly at The Everyman Cork. Prior to this, Aideen co-wrote and performed the runaway success Victorian tennis comedy Love All, which toured to critical acclaim, and to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2012.

She is a regular collaborator with Asylum Theatre  (Big Chapel X, Callan Energy Store, EVERYTHING MUST GO!). Their 2022 production EVERYTHING MUST GO!, which she co-wrote, was a largescale immersive piece taking place in an abandoned supermarket and was a commentary on the ongoing dereliction crisis in smalltown Ireland. 

Aideen has trained with The Corn Exchange, at The Actor's Space in Barcelona, and at  the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw. She has worked extensively in film, television and radio throughout her career.