Sinéad is a theatre director and acting coach and one of the worlds’ leading experts on the Michael Chekhov technique.

She is Senior Lecturer in Acting and Movement at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London on the innovative BA Acting (Collaborative and Devised Theatre) three year programme, artistic director of Creative Actor Training, author of Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique: A Practitioner’s Guide (Bloomsbury 2019) and co-translator into French of four plays by Howard Barker (Editions Théâtrales). She is co-director of Michael Chekhov UK, Faculty Council member of Michael Chekhov Association USA (MICHA) and she gives masterclasses and talks worldwide on acting and the Michael Chekhov technique.

Directing includes:

AntigoneNOW, a film created as Granada Artist-in-Residence, Davis, USA, (Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre, Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center, SPE Media Film Festival); Loaded, Old Rep Birmingham (Choreodrome Residency, The Place Theatre London); Concert (The Pit, Barbican, Baryshnikov Arts Centre, New York & international tour), Gradam Comharcheoil TG4 2018 Award-Winner/New York Bessie Award Nominee; Night Just Before the Forests (Macau Arts Festival, China); Diary of a Madman (Sherman Cymru, Wales) (Welsh Theatre Critics Best Actor/British Council Award); Out of Time (The Pit, Barbican, Baryshnikov Arts Centre & international tour), Olivier and Dance Critic’s Circle Award Nominee.

Sinéad’s recent coaching credits include: Small Island (National), Manor (National), Foundation (Apple TV), Encounter (ITV), Two Palestinians Go Dogging (Royal Court), I Am Maura (Lyric Belfast), Delia (ITV), Fool Me Once (Netflix).