Saoirse is a Bradford-born theatre-maker, facilitator and project coordinator who is primarily interested in creating theatre that instigates social change and using the arts as a tool to empower communities. Saoirse worked with Common Wealth on I Have Met the Enemy, before formally joining the team in 2021 as Community Producer at Common Space.

Saoirse trained as a theatre-maker at Rose Bruford College, where she discovered a love for alternative and political theatre. She has collaborated with various theatre companies and artists across the UK and Europe including Red Ladder Theatre Company, Sleepwalk Collective, Clean Break Theatre Company, Awake Projects and Stereo Akt in a directing and performance capacity. She is also the founder and co-artistic director of her own theatre company, Crash & Bairn.