Adam Welsh

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