Aideen Wylde
Acting
Biography
Aideen is an actor and playwright. She is also a PhD candidate in the Department of Drama & Theatre Studies at Mary Immaculate College, UL. She trained at the DIT Conservatory of Music & Drama, and holds a MA in Drama and Theatre Studies from UCC. She is a member of BrokenCrow, a multidisciplinary ensemble collaborating on new work. Her first play, Levin & Levin, debuted at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2017. The play tells the story of Ida and Bubbie Levin, escapees from the Russian pogroms, who become Weimar's most famous male impersonators. Aideen was also co-creator and performer of the smash-hit play Love All in 2012. Aideen participated in The Next Stage, the artist development strand of the annual Dublin Theatre Festival, in 2016 and holds a certificate in Holocaust Education at TCD.
Known For
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.
Penny Dreadful
On the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.
Smother
Sophia, a new high school student, tries to make friends with Barbara, who tells her that “she kills giants,” protecting this way her hometown and its inhabitants, who do not understand her strange behavior.
I Kill Giants
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Sara's dream of finding the perfect mate is realized when boyfriend Daniel proposes marriage, but there is one tiny hitch. It turns out he is the real-life prince of a small European monarchy, and his marriage requires the approval of his royal parents. Commoner Sara will have to do more than simply impress the in-laws-to-be. If she wants to become Daniel’s wife, she’ll have to prove she’s got all the makings of an honest-to-goodness princess.
Royally Ever After
An ensemble of mourners travel in their cars to the funeral of an Irishman who took his life in a car.
Davin
Busy-body mother Maureen battles Principal Finan during a parent-teacher meeting concerning her son Greg and his unusual behaviour during the school’s nativity play rehearsals.
Acorn
Set in 1912, 'Uisce Beatha' (Gaelic for Whiskey or Water Of Life) is the true story of Tom, a young Irish man who leaves his home in rural Ireland to cross the ocean on the ill-fated 'Titanic'. But a night of celebration beforehand results in a twist that will affect Tom's fate drastically....