Round 33: The Bridge between Film & Theatre
FRINGE EDITION
We are excited to host this session of Out of Frame as part of Cork Fringe Festival 2026.
Find the full Fringe programme here.
Sinéad O’Loughlin
Sinéad is an Irish writer-director working in film. She began her career in theatre before moving into filmmaking, with her first short Homecoming adapted from one of her plays. Her short film Lamb premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and went on to win multiple awards, including Best Short Film at Dublin International Film Festival and the Audience Award at Cork International Film Festival. An IFTA nominee and Vimeo Staff Pick, her work has screened internationally. She is currently developing a slate of feature films with Screen Ireland support.
Karla Goodman
Karla is an award-winning television director and producer, as well as a
theatre director, actress, and writer. She has worked with a range of leading
and dynamic companies in London and Ireland, including Channel 4, BBC
Radio 4, Picturehouse TV, Ricochet, Endemol Shine London, and Ardmore
Studios in Dublin.
Her theatre credits span renowned venues such as, Leeds Playhouse,
Chichester Festival Theatre, Londons’s Soho Theatre, Andrews Lane Theatre
in Dublin, and most recently Cork Arts Theatre. Classically trained as an
actress, Karla has had the pleasure of working alongside celebrated
performers including Miriam Margolyes, Minnie Driver, and Graham Norton,
among many others.
She is the founder of Made to Measure Films, a Kinsale-based production
company, and co-founder of The Hive – Screen Cork Writers’ Room,
supporting emerging screenwriting talent.
Karla is currently performing in Captain Wagtail, by Éidín Griffin, where she
plays Clemence McMurrough, a prudish and rule-bound academic whose life
is upended by a comic encounter with a woman 300 years her senior, the
infamous Anne Bonny.
As she puts it herself, with her children now nearly raised, she’s “back in the
ring” bringing her experience across theatre and film to new work and
collaborations.
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Arann Blake
Arann is a writer/director based in Cork City. Originally coming from a background of writing and producing independent theatre, Arann went on to receive an MA in Screenwriting from the University of Arts London.
In 2025, Arann formed the Film Collective, Ramallae Dubh, alongside Abreain Blake, Andy Killian and Zoe Greenway. The group’s first short film, Welfare, written and directed by Arann, premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2025. The group have just wrapped on their second project which will be released later this year.
Along with Abreain and Andy, Arann is a member of Cork band, Pretty Happy. With the support of the Cork City Council, the group are also currently producing Leeside Creatures. Directed by the members of Pretty Happy and with Zoe Greenway serving as DOP, the feature length documentary is a journey through Cork’s Rebellious Post Punk lineage.
Arann is was a finalist in the Ardan and RTE Short Film Commission 2026, with the short film project Tír. He is developing the project alongside Abreain Blake and producer Ali Doyle. Arann’s TV project Starless, a show set in Cork City, is currently being developed into an Irish and International comedy series. The show is being developed by Prelude Content, Born Wild Productions and Zero Gravity International.
