Valerie Ni Loinsigh is a professionally trained actor
and writer. (B.A. Hons from Trinity College, Dublin)

She presented her first academic paper at The ISTR conference, 2017
 in the University of Nottingham.

She is signed talent with Step Forward Entertainment Group.
 http://www.stepforwardentertainment.com/

She lived in New York for a year 2015/16 on a Graduate visa where
she appeared in three different Off-Broadway productions and
worked as a Site Director and Teaching Artist for Wingspan Arts.
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As a professional writer, she has had her work produced Off-Broadway
and, an excerpt from her play, 'Gilligan's Survivors' was performed
at the launch of 'The Dionysian' magazine in Brooklyn in 2016. She is
currently co-creating  new comedy series, titled "Notions." with award-winning
film-maker Eoghan McQuinn. This was recently selected for Mediacon
Global Entertainment Summit, 2017 and they have articles coming out with
GCN/The Outmost, Salon.com and The Evening Echo. She was selected for
the Abbey Theatre Pop-Up Playwriting Series and the Galway Fringe
in 2015.

She is an award-winning comedian who has
performed at The Trinity Fringe Festival,
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 
Indiependance Comedy Festival,
The International Comedy Club
and Broadway Comedy Club.
She is developing a new style of
performance called 'stand-up commedia'.

She is a fluent and enthusiastic Irish speaker. She appeared on 
TG4's 'GIG' in 2013 as a comedy mentor and was awarded an Irish scholarship
and fainne oir by Trinity College, Dublin.

She is a classically trained pianist and holds an
honors ​Grade 8 qualification in Classical Piano
from the Royal Irish Academy of Music.