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Aaron Finnegan

MA Drama Directing Student


Biography

Aaron Finnegan is a director and writer from Drogheda, Ireland. His previous credits include Dublin Carol (Samuel Beckett Theatre, 2020), and It’s More Like Train Tracks Than A Sandbox (Smock Alley, 2020). He previously studied at Trinity College Dublin.

He aims to create work that is visually striking, relevant, and emotionally engaging, and deals with themes of family, masculinity, violence, and redemption set against urban backdrops. He is hugely interested in new writing, but also in re-examining classic texts in a fresh light.

For his writing, Aaron has been published in the Fishamble Tiny Play Challenge for his piece The Corrective, and was awarded the Hennessy Literary Award for First Fiction in 2018.

It was always stressed that the contacts you make during your training are incredibly important, and your classmates are likely to end up being on set alongside you in the future. After working with a director of photography on one of the School’s short films, I was invited to work on a project with him outside of Bristol - proving that the professionals we meet via the School, may one day give us a call to action! Muir McFadden, Technical Graduate