Roisin (Rosh) is an award-winning Cornish-Irish director, writer and educator, trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She is a recipient of the prestigious Michael Grandage Company Futures Award. 

 

Rosh creates bold, atmospheric theatre, and is interested in work that connects us through a shared sense of humanity; be that addressing social and political topics, or finding a joyful and effervescent escape from them. She is committed to engaging regional artists and audiences.

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Directing credits include Kevrin: Out of Season (SW Tour), Cold, Dark Matters (Theatre503, The Hope Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe), Mo Chara, Dia Duit (Theatre Royal Plymouth), The Fall of the House of Usher (Red Rope Theatre), A Summer of Birds (Exeter Northcott Theatre), The Hounds of the Baskervilles (Red Rope Theatre), Bar Tape (SW tour), No One Will Tell Me How to Start a Revolution (Wardrobe Theatre) and Pascoe's Pilchard Palace (Kneehigh). Assistant/Associate credits include: The Ugly Duckling (Kneehigh/Wise Children), Grief Play (Kneehigh, workshop), Further than the Furthest Thing (Minack Theatre) and Marthusow ha Mysteris (Hall for Cornwall / O-region)

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Alongside directing, Roisin works extensively in artist development, facilitation and education. She is a guest lecturer and visiting director at universities and young companies across the South West, and has held in-house positions at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Salisbury Playhouse and Hall for Cornwall. She currently mentors emerging theatre-makers through workshops, rehearsals and bespoke training programmes.

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As a writer, Roisin has been commissioned by O-Region, Kneehigh and Taunton Brewhouse. Her work include The Last Train to Egloskerry, A Traipse Through Time and Pascoe’s Pilchard Palace. She was shortlisted for BBC New Creatives with her radio drama Cross the Tamar: The Path Less Trodden and is currently developing new works with support from the Michael Grandage Company, Hall for Cornwall and Exeter Northcott Theatre.​

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