Darach Mac Con Iomaire

Born and reared in Dublin, Darach Mac Con Iomaire’s first taste of the theatre drug was on arrival in University in Galway in 1996. Quickly addicted, he’s been writing and directing theatre, TV drama and feature films ever since. Darach wrote and directed the award-winning TV series Corp + Anam during his two-year tenure as Development Executive with Magamedia. Corp + Anam received an IFTA award in 2012 and ‘Best Drama’ and ‘Spirit of the Festival’ awards at the Celtic Media Festival in Derry in 2012. Darach went on to write and direct the second series of Corp + Anam for TG4, which aired to critical acclaim in Autumn 2014. He has also developed and written Olagón — an Irish/Spanish feature film that was awarded development funding by The Irish Film Board and the European development funding scheme — MEDIA. Darach has extensive theatre experience and his six year tenure as Artistic Director of Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe — The National Irish Language Theatre, was acclaimed for its ambition, energy and creative flair. During this time his work was nominated for numerous awards, including two Irish Times Theatre Awards. He was presented with the BBC/Stuart Parker Award for new writing in 2005. Darach was also nominated for IFTAs in the Best Writer and Best TV Drama categories 2012. The Screen Director’s Guild of Ireland presented Darach with Gradam Fhoras na Gaeilge in 2015. The second series of Corp + Anam also received an IFTA award and 'Best TV Series 2015' at the ‘Oireachtas National Media Awards’. It was also nominated for the prestigious Prix Europa awards in Berlin the same year. Darach has directed over forty professional theatre productions, most of which have toured nationally and internationally, notably, Cré na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, An Béal Bocht by Myles na gCopaleen and Scéalta Ó Theach na mBocht by Eugene McCabe. Darach is currently (2017) commissioned by the Abbey Theatre to write a new play — BAOITE.