Robert Power is an Irish artist working in various mediums. He is currently preparing to embark on a solo tour of concerts in support of his new theatre piece, A Version of Life, a blend of Music, Theatre, Film and Visual Art which will make its international debut at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025. The show was first developed at Trapdoor, University College Dublin with support from Creative Futures Academy and premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival 2024.
A photograph taken by Dunk Murphy at Trapdoor, University College Dublin, in December 2023, of the first development showing of this new multi-disciplinary, auto-fictional, project which had its full debut at Dublin Fringe Festival 2024.
Robert’s music has previously been selected for the RTÉ Radio 1 Playlist and Record Of The Day. Hot Press Magazine have described him as “powerful, heartfelt and thought-provoking”. Subterranean Sounds, original live music curator, say he is “a natural, with the songs and the voice”.
As an actor, writer, director, producer and workshopping and development practitioner, Robert has proudly worked, trained or developed work with a wide range of companies on projects such as, Darkhorse’s Don’t Take Your Coat Off (Dublin Fringe Festival and National Tour), Curious State (St.Patrick’s Festival, Dublin) , Garter Lane’s A Little Room, Public Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Hinterland’s The Playboy of the Western World, Coláiste Dhulaigh’s Dry Ice Company’s Hamlet, Gaiety School of Acting’s Our Country’s Good and Brewery Lane Theatre’s A Streetcar Named Desire.
As a voiceover artist he played multiple characters in Magma Films production of the Hans Christian Andersen series The Fairytaler which ran on Nickelodeon.
Robert has also toured nationally with his first solo piece, A Story of Destiny, which is the first part of a trilogy of plays in the works.
A Story of Destiny.
His debut short film installation The Great Belief, shot along the copper coast, was screened at both Odeon and GOMA, Waterford as part of Symbiosis ii, a celebration of the arts in the south east of Ireland.
He has also performed at music, arts and boutique showcase events such as Imagine, Light Colour Sound and Boatshed London and supported artists such as Jinx Lennon and Jack L.
Robert is also Artistic Director of Hinterland, an arts collective which aims to create and tour one-off accessible and inclusive projects which manifest positive energy and interest in the arts in smaller communities around the island of Ireland. Emerging from the stillness of pandemic, the project began with a tour of The Playboy of the Western World which visited towns and villages around the country, including Inis Meáin on the Aran Islands, a place of great inspiration for playwright, J.M. Synge.
In 2024 Robert graduated with First Class Honours in a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin and is a proud alumni of its Creative Futures Academy.