Ellen Kirk is an Irish scenographer and production designer working across film and screen-based projects, with a background in contemporary theatre and live performance. She works in close collaboration with directors and writers to shape the visual language of a project from its earliest stages. Her work is marked by rich and detailed world-building, striking imagery and distinctive dynamic moments.
Her debut feature as production designer, Everybody Digs Bill Evans (dir. Grant Gee, Cowtown Pictures / Hot Property UK), premiered in competition at Berlinale 2026, where it received the Silver Bear for Best Director. Her recent film work also includes Room Taken (dir. TJ O’Grady Peyton), an Academy Award–shortlisted short which won over 20 international awards, and An Encounter (dir. Kelly Campbell), which won the Grand Prix Short at Cork International Film Festival and Best Irish Short at Dublin International Film Festival. Her screen work was previously recognised with a nomination and judges’ special mention for the Aer Lingus Discovery Award at Dublin International Film Festival.
Alongside her narrative screen work, Ellen has production designed and art directed a wide range of music videos and short-form projects, including Hozier’s De Selby II, and multiple collaborations with Kojaque and Soft Boy Records. These projects span both stylised and narrative-driven work, and have involved close visual collaboration with musicians and directors to build distinctive worlds, often within compressed production timelines and budgets.
Ellen has also built an extensive body of theatre work across Ireland and internationally, collaborating with many of the country’s leading contemporary theatre artists and companies. Recent stage projects include set and costume design for Konstantin (Dublin Theatre Festival), set design for 0800-CUPID (Dublin Theatre Festival and Soho Theatre, London), and frequent work with multi-award winning company Dead Centre, most recently designing Illness as Metaphor (Project Arts Centre, Dublin and Viernulvier Festival, Gent). She designed Brokentalkers’ Masterclass, which received a Scotsman Fringe First Award at Edinburgh and went on to tour extensively internationally, including performances at Sydney Opera House and Skirball NYC. Earlier collaborations include This Solution by Shaun Dunne and Party Scene with THISISPOPBABY.
Across film, theatre, and music projects, Ellen is drawn to work with directors and artists with a strong authorial voice, approaching design as an integral narrative layer rather than a purely decorative one. She is co-founder of the Dublin performance collective Murmuration (Resident Artists at Project Arts Centre), an associate artist with THISISPOPBABY (2023, 2024), and was named one of The Irish Times’ “50 People to Watch in 2026.”
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