Katrina Foley is a freelance theatre director, performer and dramaturg, who holds a BA in Theatre and Drama Studies from MTU and an MA in Theatre and Performative Practices from UCC. She is passionate about new writing, complex characters and really good stories.
Katrina is co-founder of Wandering Star, along with Jamie Feehily and Aoife Clarke. Wandering Star developed and produced Lex Talionis (A Tale of Vengeance & Feathers) by Liam Heylin at Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival and as an audio drama for the Play It by Ear series at The Everyman. Other highlights for the company include productions of bedbound by Enda Walsh, Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Adult Child/Dead Child by Claire Dowie.
After completing her Masters, Katrina was mentored by Pamela McQueen from Dramaturgs Network Ireland. During this time, she facilitated a script advisory programme called ‘Project: Dramaturgy, which was supported by Cork City Council, allowing her to work with several playwrights who were at the early drafting stage of a new play. She has twice been co-director for the Young Playwrights Programme presented by GRAFFITI, The Everyman and Fighting Words.
Some of her recent directing work includes ALSA Productions’ haunting play At the Moment, Everything Is Missing, Candy Warhol’s The Wind That Shakes the Wig and SNUG by John McCarthy, an entirely sung story – set and performed in a pub.
Photograph by Celeste Burdon