Adam Welsh

Writer / Director / Sound Designer

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Film, TV & Theatre

Adam Welsh is a director, writer and sound designer.

He is a co-founder and associate artist of Dead Centre, the theatre company behind the cult show Lippy (Young Vic, Schaubühne). Dead Centre have received international acclaim for their work and are recipients of two Irish Times Theatre Awards, a Fringe First, a Herald Angel, a Total Theatre Award and an OBIE award. Adam was nominated for an Irish Times Theatre award for his work with the company. Most recently, Adam created the sound design for The Patient Gloria by Gina Moxley (The Abbey Theatre, Pan Pan) which transfers to St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn in October 2022. 

As a director, credits include YMAM (Liverool Everyman, Soho Theatre) and as writer/director There but for the grace of God go I (Camden People’s Theatre, Soho Theatre, ARC Stockton) and No Future (Shoreditch Town Hall). 

Adam founded Divergent Talent Group in 2021. Divergent Talent Group is the UK's first talent management company exclusively representing neurodivergent talent. Divergent Talent launched an Access Consultancy arm earlier this year and will be piloting a Production division in September 2022, co-producing EDIE at Theatre503.

Other organisations Adam has worked with include The National Theatre, Headlong, The Yard, Barbican, Druid, Sage Gateshead, BAC and Lincoln Center NYC.

“Welsh doesn’t make things easy for his audience...because he respects us too much.” Lyn Gardner

“This man knows how to deliver an emotional blow….There but for the grace of God (go I) has a subtle burning sadness, that reveals a wonderful talent in Adam Welsh, and that is both heart-breaking and heart-warming in its beautifully raw denouement.” - A Younger Theatre

“...a strange, unresolved and discomfiting work – a memory play that feels like REM sleep, as dreams swirl into being and the brain whirs to make sense of everything that’s happened.” - ✭✭✭✭ The Stage 

“A piece of beautifully crafted storytelling…leaves you holding your breath.” - Everything Theatre

In Development

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CANVAS 5

2021

BFI / BBC

As Composer
Short film

Y’MAM

2021

Liverpool Everyman

As Director & Sound Designer
Currently preparing for UK tour, Spring 2022

Theatre

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AS WRITER

NO FUTURE

2021

Camden People's Theatre, Shoreditch Town Hall

As Writer/Director
One of Camden People's Theatre's new OUTSIDE THE BOX Commissions

HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE (work-in-progress sharing)

2019

Camden People's Theatre

Writer/Director

THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD

2017 - 2018

Camden People’s Theatre, ARC, Soho Theatre

Writer/Performer. Created at Camden People’s Theatre and ARC Stockton.
Most recently at Soho Theatre

AS SOUND DESIGNER / COMPOSER

THE PATIENT GLORIA

2018 - 2019

Pan Pan /Abbey Theatre / Traverse

Sound Design. New show by Gina Moxely.
Feat. Cait O'Riordan (The Pogues)

SUNRISE

2018

Soho Theatre

Sound Design. Jessie Cave’s work-in-progress, previewing at the Edinburgh Fringe and opening in the main house at Soho Theatre in November.

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

2018

Iris Theatre

Sound Design.

LIPPY

Dead Centre/ Young Vic

Co-creator and Sound Designer. Nomiated for Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Sound Design 2014. Previously at Abbey Theatre and international tour.

SOUVENIR

Dead Centre/ Yard Theatre

Previously at the New Theatre, Dublin, Abrons Arts Center, Brisbane Festival, Seoul Performing Arts Festival.

(S)QUARK!

Dead Centre/ James Joyce Centre

Garden of Geniuses festival Yasnaya Polyana, Russia (Leo Tolstoy Estate). First performed at the New Theatre on Bloomsday.

A GYM THING

Pleasance

Pleasance London 2018.

A SERIOUS BUSINESS

Luton Hat Factory /Pleasance

Play by Dave Florez.

I GAVE HIM AN ORCHID

Oval House / Flight of the Escales

Theatre work by Sarah Calver. Cammerspiel Leipzig, Prague Fringe Festival, Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Pulse Festival, Faki Festival, Kana Arts, Sophiensaele, Berlin, English Theatre Berlin, 100Grad Festival Sophiensaele, Berlin.

CHEKHOV'S FIRST PLAY (R&D)

Dead Centre / Smock Alley Dublin

Final production co-commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre and Irish Arts Center.

BECKETT'S FIRST PLAY

Dead Centre/ National Theatre Studio

R&D at National Theatre Studio