Grace Collender

Grace Collender is an actor/writer/dancer. As an actor, she debuted during her final year of her undergraduate degree in TU Dublin Conservatoire when she was cast as the lead role of Kate in Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls at the Abbey Theatre, and on its National Tour. Since graduating with a First Class Honours degree in Acting in November of 2019, she has subsequently gone on to star as Nina Scully in Thomas Kilroy’s The Big Chapel, and as Helena in Drama at Inish in the Abbey Theatre. Grace originated the role of Cara in the US Tour of Find Your Way Home, which also ran off-Broadway.

Her undergraduate essay concerning the work of Caryl Churchill won the prestigious Regional Global Undergraduate Award 2019, and was published in The Undergraduate Journal. Grace is a 2021 Resident Dance Artist at Shawbrook Dance Trust and was awarded a Carlow Wedge Funds Micro-Bursary from Carlow Arts Festival and a Professional Development Award from the Arts Council for the development of her debut full length play, ANNEX, which was also a top ten finalist for the Strollers Network Propel Programme.