Mia Mullarkey
Writer & Director
I make film and television rooted in character, moral complexity and relationship dynamics.
Selected award-winning work
TV Drama (RTÉ / BBC / AcornTV)
TV Drama (RTÉ / Screen Ireland)
Short drama (Screen Ireland)
Short drama (Film Offaly)Experience
I work across adaptation, original screenwriting, and projects developed through my own research. I’m interested in stories that play on our sense of right and wrong — where character is shaped by pressure, responsibility, and forces we don’t fully understand within ourselves.
Screen International Rising Star and two-time Cannes Lions Young Director Award winner, with over 80 international awards and nominations.
Shorts screened at Oscar- and BAFTA-qualifying festivals including Palm Springs, Slamdance, Short Shorts Asia, Cork and Flickers’.
Broadcast and distributed on BBC, RTÉ, TVNZ, France 24 and TG4, with global platform releases including Acorn TV, ShortsTV and Streamz.
In Development
Lucid
Feature film
Writer & director
Supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Liberties
Six-part TV adaptation of Ravelling by Estelle Birdy
Developed by Mia Mullarkey | Lead director
With Sleeper Films | Supported by Screen Ireland
Adapted by Conor Keane
An Unravelling
TV mini-series adaptation of An Unravelling by Elske Rahill
Developed by Mia Mullarkey | Lead director
With Pipedream Productions | Supported by Screen Ireland
Adapted by Cara Loftus
CONTACT / REPRESENTATION
Charlotte Kelly - charlotte@casarotto.co.uk
Ellen Gallagher - ellen@casarotto.co.uk
Banjoman - matt@banjoman.tv