Abby Oliveira is a writer, performer, theatre-maker and facilitator based in the North of Ireland.
Her work is often cross-discipline and collaborative, comprising poetry, storytelling, music & sound design, prose, playwriting, and/or physical performance. Recently she has been learning and experimenting in sound recording, soundscape creation and composition.
She is a graduate of the MA Creative Writing and PGCert Audio-Visual Post Production programmes at Queen’s University, Belfast.
She has been commissioned as a writer many times, by organisations such as BBC & RTE radios, Hot Poets, The MAC, and more.
She collaborates extensively with artists in other disciplines; most recently with the acrobats of Compagnie XY. There have been many music collaborations of many styles; from trip-hop to folk to electronic soundscape and more.
Facilitation:
Abby has extensive experience as a facilitator in performance poetry, creative writing, storytelling and drama, and has worked in this capacity since circa 2007, with all ages and abilities. She has facilitated workshops for the likes of Creative Lives, The Irish Writers' Centre, The Poetry Society, the Seamus Heaney Homeplace, Donegal CoCo, and many more.
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Wonder, Thunder, Blunder - planet powered poems for 9-13yr olds - Michael Rosen & Hot Poets (I have 2 commissioned poems in here) Click on image to purchase/learn more
photo by Matthew Thomson, for the Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation.
Perrin the Storyteller
Collaboration with artist Grim17 on his track Sharks. Click to listen.
video still from The Morrigan's Love - written by Abby Oliveira for Derry Halloween 2020 & In Your Space circus
promo image from The Revenant of Riverside by Kat Woods - 2024
in After the Rain - by Compagnie XY - 2023 photo by Pearse Moore
I collaborated with DJ and producer Louise Da Costa on her track 'Faith' - 2024 click to listen
at the Oxford Real Farming Conference with a few of the Hot Poets (namely Liv Torc, Testament, and Diz Undone) 2025
from the We Feed the UK exhibition at Belfast Exposed gallery - 2025 ... I was partnered with the amazing Mallon Farm, co Tyrone, where Charlie and Helen (among many other community and nature minded initiatives) grow flax commercially - in such a way as leaves behind not a trace of pollutants to the land and supports biodiversity. LOVED this project!
Inspired by the red panda when it enters a battle situation, I dive into my talk at the MI Mental Health Arts Festival conference in Derry, summer 2025. The red panda has the right idea - when you want to shrink, make yourself big.
Performing my poem 'Horrorscope' at I Am Loud, Edinburgh. Photo by Shane Strachan
a beautiful weekend facilitating creative writing workshops at the Autumn 2025 Willowbrook Glamping Writer's Retreat in Roscommon. Click link to check out Willowbrook. It's a magical place.
as Marie Laveau in Legends of the Coven - a one woman show written and performed by Abby, 2018
I have 2 poems in this anthology of writings on the border in Ireland. Featuring many more brilliant writers and a smorgasbord of perspectives. Click to purchase/ learn more.
I have a poem in this anthology on the climate crisis. Click link to purchase/learn more
as The MorrÃgan, Derry Halloween 2020
My short story 'Are We Dancers' on BBC Radio 4 Short Works programme.
I collaborated with Derry singer-songwriter Grim17 on the track Guck Huxley - click here to check out the track and the album
Very exciting collaboration with the amazing Spraoi in 2021. Abby wrote and performed the spoken-word poetry element to this multi-genre public performance installation.
debut album cover: The Seventh Daughter by 7 Daughters
The last gig before lockdown. It was a belter. This, at The Duncairn, Belfast, 2020. Alongside Stephen James Smith, Steve Simpson, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan, and Aidan Murphy.
photo by Turlach O'Broin
with Velvet Alibi, 2018
on stage with Velvet Alibi at the closing concert of EchoEcho Dance festival
as Bridget Cleary in Legends of the Coven, performed at Eastrogen Rising cabaret, Dublin
in The Derry Dearg Due-short film, 2020
in Mothers Out Front by Edie Shillue, produced by Sole Purpose Productions
with the crew of the play Lesbian Style, written by Hilary McCollum, directed by Patricia Byrne/Sole Purpose Productions.
with singer/songwriters Birdwoman and BeRn, at The Monday Night Cure, 2017
regulars at the Monday Night Cure in Sandino's, Derry, in their Halloween garb
cover of Abby's spoken-word album Cast Away Your Compass, 2016
photo by Carrie Davenport
performing at NUI Galway, 2017
poster for theatre double-header - Ghosts (by Gemma Walker) and Legends of the Coven (by Abby Oliveira).
with poets Cat Hepburn, Kevin P Gilday, and Michael Pedersen after performing at Sonnet Youth... on a train somewhere between Glasgow and Edinburgh, 2019
at the London Irish Centre 2019
Oz tour dates, 2016
