The third annual Storyhouse Screenwriting Festival will play host to a pair of Oscar-nominated screenwriters when it returns to Ireland next month.
Taking place on 16–17 April 2026 at the Light House Cinema, the Dublin-based event focuses on screen storytelling and will feature panels, keynote talks, interviews and case studies with international writers and creators.
The 2026 programme includes speakers such as Will Tracy, acclaimed for his work on TV's Succession and pitch-black big-screen comedy The Menu, and recently nominated for Oscar and BAFTA awards for his screenplay for Bugonia.
He'll be joined by writer and director Brady Corbet, whose film The Brutalist received multiple Academy Award nominations in 2025, and playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan, whose extensive list of screen credits include TV hits The Hour and The Split, as well as movies like Shame, The Iron Lady, Sufragette and Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.
Other participants include a new wave of writer/directors, all acclaimed for their first feature films: Pillion's Harry Lighton, Sorry Baby's Eva Victor and Christy's Brendan Canty, a recent IFTA winner for Best Film.
The festival runs alongside Storyhouse Lab, a five-day development programme for emerging writers, featuring fifteen participants selected from 581 applicants and led by What Richard Did writer Malcolm Campbell.
Supported by Screen Ireland and Fremantle, Storyhouse is a not-for-profit initiative backed by Irish production company Element Pictures and led by its co-chief executive, Ed Guiney.
Tickets for the event will go on sale on Monday, 30 March at 10am - find out more here.
