In this episode, Graeme tracked down writer, theatre and film-director Aislínn Clarke to her brand new office at Queen’s University Belfast, where she has just been appointed as a lecturer in scriptwriting with the Séamus Heaney Centre.
A graduate of the course that she now lectures on, Aislinn grew up on the border between the North and South of Ireland, and now lives in the quaint seaside town of Whitehead on the North Coast of Co. Antrim. Beginning a media career from when she graduated from a Film Studies degree in 2004, Aislínn has pursued her passion for telling stories with talent and tenacity, across TV, theatre, radio, and now film, with her first feature – The Devil’s Doorway – due to be released in 2018.
In this interview, Graeme uncovers how Aislinn’s early life created a love for telling stories, and how she manages to balance creative integrity and personal happiness with success and opportunity, and the joys of living by the sea.