RACHAEL DOWLING
Rachael will be reprising her role in Happiness Then as the Civic from the 12th to 15th of May and the Viking from 18th to 30th of May.
Happiness then performed to full houses at Bewley’s Café Theatre “[A] Riveting Performance” Arts Review ’24 plus the Mill and the Viking Theatres.
Rachael also performed in two successful runs of The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder at the Abbey Theatre. Irish Times Theatre Award Nominee – Best Ensemble Acting.
She played Ruthie Deirdre Kinahan’s The Unmanageable Sisters also at The Abbey Theatre.
Film and TV work include: Anniversary, Directed by Jan Komasa, Recreation, Directed by Jim Sheridan, Partita Eric Fraad Director. A Sunken Place. Northern Ireland State Pathologist Dr Ormonde in Virgin Media TV crime/drama series Borderline – Robert Quinn Director. MGM. Claire Larkin in KIN. RTE/AMC/BBC. Three Families – BBC1 and Paula – BBC 1. Principal Hastings in Harry Wild opp Jane Seymour.
Rachael is a 2024 recipient of the Screen Ireland – Actor as Creator award for her short film script Growing Together.
Rachael made her screen acting debut playing Lily in John Huston’s classic film adaptation of James Joyce’s The Dead.
She has directed for the theatre, including Missing Football, the award winning first play by Irish writer Peter McKenna (Kin, The Clinic, Red Rock). Rachael majored in Film Studies at Hunter College NYC (BA). She was awarded her MA in Film and Television Studies from Dublin City University.