Méabh de Brún is an award-winning actor, playwright and writer who explores difficult subjects through black comedy and dark fantasy.
Her FICTION has been published in such literary magazines as The Stinging Fly, Banshee Press, Swan River Press and more. Her work has featured in Solas Nua’s View Source anthology of contemporary Irish writing. She is a finalist for the RTÉ Francis MacManus Short Story Award, winner of the Irish Independent’s New Irish Writing and recipient of a Tyrone Guthrie Center residency award.
As a PLAYWRIGHT, Méabh won the DCLI/ACDI Playwriting Award for her first one-act play Dead Man’s Bells which won eight festival awards in its first tour, one of which was her award for Best Actor. Méabh’s first full-length play GRAND was staged as a rehearsed reading by Prime Cut Productions, and her play And Tomorrow I’ll Dance With You was shortlisted for The Women’s Playwriting Prize, staged as part of The New Theatre’s New Writing Development Week and was a 2022 Druid Debut.
Méabh also WRITES FOR AUDIO and is a two-time nominee for the 2024 and 2025 Irish Writer’s Guild Award for Best Audio & Radio Play Script. She was nominated for her radio play High Spirits, broadcast as part of Near FM’s 2023 audio anthology, and for The Devil’s Chair, her one-woman horror mini-series for Realm.FM. The Devil’s Chair also featured on The Podcast Host’s Best Audio Drama and Fiction Podcasts for 2025. Méabh has both written and performed in a number of audio projects, such as the interactive audio adventure A Dark Night In Dublin for Six to Start (makers of Zombies, Run!), and The Sludge Mother for the Town Whispers.
In her WRITING FOR SCREEN, Méabh has won and been nominated for a number of festival awards for her scripts. Her adaptations of her short stories and her original work have been nominated for awards at the Waterford International Film Festival, the Kerry International Film Festival, the UK Film Festival Script Competition, the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, and placed runner up at the the Catalyst International Film Festival Short Screenplay Award. She is a repeated finalist for competitive Irish bursary awards and was a finalist for the 2022 Ardán/RTÉ Short Film Commission.
PERFORMING from an early age, Méabh has a wide range of THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE. She studied at Bow Street National Screen Acting School and with the Gaiety Performance Theatre Company. She has performed with renowned theaters such as The New Theatre, the Cork Arts Theatre, and Axis Balllymun among others, and is the recipient of a number of national best actor festival awards. Méabh enjoys ACTING FOR SCREEN, and recently featured in the short film Sex Pirates of 1931, a period drama by Sass Mouth Dames Productions.
As a VOICE ACTOR Méabh has experience in video games, radio plays and commercial voice-over. She particularly enjoys performing in audio drama, and as well as writing and performing in her own work, she is known for her leading roles in The Silt Verses, Omen, The Secret of St. Kilda and her latest performance as Carmilla in BloodyFM’s audio adaptation of the Le Fanu novel. Méabh has been a guest performer in a number of award-winning shows such as Old Gods of Appalachia, The Amelia Project, Hello From The Hallowoods and The Town Whispers. She has won numerous Audio Verse Awards in various categories, including Best Performance of a Leading Role and Best Guest Performance. Méabh features in the upcoming narrative video game The Good People (Na Daoine Maithe) by Moirai Myths.
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