Graduate Spotlight: Alma Kelliher

It is the sound designer’s job to help create the atmosphere of a play – to add to the intrigue and conjuration of ideas in the audience’s head about what is happening on stage. It is integral to how we experience theatre, to how it affects us, and to the overall artistic production.

Alma Kelliher, who studied Music in Trinity, has been successfully weaving her way through this industry for years, leaving twinkling soundscapes in her wake. Winner of 2013 Irish Times Theatre Award for sound design for riverrun, a retelling of Joyce’s ‘Finnegan’s Wake’, Alma’s compositions have been heard all over the world via theatre, film and television. As someone with many strings in her bow, Alma recently appeared as composer, sound designer, musical director and performer in RIOT alongside Panti, a thisispopbaby production which took Dublin’s Fringe Festival by storm, winning Best Production.  

This year Alma was one of eighteen rising stars of the Irish arts scene to receive the ART:2016 Next Generation Bursary Award from the Arts Council; from this, she is creating a live theatre event and an electro album inspired by the stories of Irish mythology. Current film projects include A Report to an Academy by Sarah Browne and I Am Roger Casement directed by Dearbhla Walsh, soon to be broadcast on RTÉ. Alma is also a member of the Evertides, a delightfully delicate folk trio whose celebrated debut EP was released this year.

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