Sian Ní Mhuirí

Writing two episodes for second series of animated show.

Writing episodes for new series.

Writing Pilot script.

Original YA series in development

Development script for new animated series – selected for Cartoon Forum 2023

Development work and script for new animated series.

Writing episodes for upcoming animated series.

Wrote feature screen play.

Writing episodes for second series.

Development for live action Nickelodeon series.

Development work for new animated preschool series.

Wrote 1 x 11′ episode for new animated series for Nickelodeon

Development work writing 11′ episodes for new animated series

5 x 7′ episodes on new pre-school animated series which released on RTÉ in April 2023

Online material to support release of the series

Wrote 1 x 22′ episode for major 8+ animated series

Wrote 2 x 30′ episodes for live action teen comedy-drama, created by Carol Walsh. TX’d 2024

Wrote 8 x 5′ episodes for animated series

15 x 22′ episodes of new 6+ animated action adventure show, available to stream on BBC iPlayer. Sian joined as a consultant and was one of only three writers on the whole series.

Development work and pilot script for new 6+ animation show, co-written with Carol Walsh.

Writer on 4 episodes of new Irish/Finnish comedy animation series, directed by Vanessa Lassenius. Screened on RTÉjr in 2021. Other broadcasters include YLE, Ketnet and RTVe.

Nominee: Best Writer for an Animated Series, ‘Royals Next Door – Royal Re-Enactment’, Irish Animation Awards 2023

Writer on 6+ animated comedy series

Wrote and directed the performance text for The Carnival of the Animals show at the Royal Albert Hall.

Writing mentor

Writer and Director on this project (ages 11+). Funded by Arts Council Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland. Irish premiere at Riverbanks Arts Centre, Newbridge, 2020.

Writer and Lead Artist on this project (ages 6+). Supported by Draíocht and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.

Lead Writer and Production Partner (Super Paua) for Te Rohi (general audience), a co-production in collaboration with Te Pou and Te Rehia, Auckland. Funded by Arts Council Ireland and Creative New Zealand.

Assistant Director of The Complex Youth Theatre, Dublin (Emp: Anthony Goulding). Co-director, writing mentor and dramaturg for CYT’s production of The Gaff.

Writer/Director/Producer of award-winning play Aunty Ben, Ireland’s first LGBT play for children aged 7+. Toured to Dublin, London, Brighton, Belfast and Kildare in 2014-2016. Supported by the Abbey Theatre Community and Education Department.

Writer of a play for young adults. Performed at The Complex, Dublin, Electric Picnic Festival 2016, and The Town Hall Theatre Studio, Galway as part of centenary Conversations Conference.

Writer/Performer of Mysteries of the Deep (or Why the Basking Shark Opened Its Massive Mouth) in collaboration with Niamh Beirne, Lucy Smyth and Stephane Bena-Hanly. Festival of Curiosity, 23rd & 24th July 2016.

Guest Lecturer on LGBT positive media for children, BEd Students, St Patricks Teacher Training College DCU, Drumcondra (Emp: Dr Audrey Bryan)

Freelance Drama Facilitator with the Abbey Community and Education Department (December-February 2020), National Performing Arts School (Dir: Eamonn Farrell and Jill Doyle), Dublin Youth Theatre (March 2019), St Kevin’s College, Crumlin (2019-2020), PRESS PLAY (Dublin City Council initiative with the Abbey Theatre) and in secondary schools around Ireland and New Zealand.

Artist in Residence in gAelscoil Chill Dara, Scoil Bhríde Kilcullen and Daingean NS as part of the Teacher Artist Partnership Programme (dir: Kildare Education Centre).

Co-Director, with Abiola Mohammed, of the Girls Drama Club at the Islamic Cultural Centre Ireland. Classes for ages 7-12 years.

Emilie Fitzgibbon Bursary 2024

Carlo Annoni International Playwriting Prize 2023