Orla Higgins is an award-winning documentary maker and independent audio producer from Galway.

Her work with RTÉ Documentary on One includes The Curious Case of Typhoid Mary in 2021 (which won silver at the 2022 New York Festivals Radio Awards) and Reprisals in 2019 (finalist at the 2020 New York Festivals Radio Awards). Described by the Irish Times as 'a compelling and wonderful piece of radio', White Noise was broadcast in 2018 and also won silver at the 2019 New York Festivals Radio Awards. In 2020 she produced Savage Beauty for the BBC World Service documentary strand In the Studio.

In addition Orla produces podcast series including Other: Stories from the Tuam Mother and Baby Home narrated by the actor Cillian Murphy and The Law is a White Dog for TULCA Festival of Visual Arts. Most recently she produced the Alternative Eye series with Flirt FM.

Orla lectures with the Huston School of Film and Digital Media and the JE Cairnes School of Business and Economics at University of Galway.

Twitter: @neoncitystories