Dualtagh McDonnell-Grundy is a theatre-maker, writer and artistic researcher from Dublin based in Ireland and the Netherlands. He holds a Masters in Performance Practices from ArtEZ (NL) and trained as a devised director at Trinity College, Dublin. His practice is grounded in ecological contexts and always begins from a starting point of collaboration.  Through collaboration, his work aims to facilitate encounters that expose and find the potential for resisting dominant infrastructures such as extractivism that shape how landscapes are known and valued. A core component of his performance practice involves reflexivity, acknowledging and working with how his artistic practice may reproduce the structures he tries to critique. His practice also involves creating live interactive audiovisual compositions from field data.

He also is a co-founding member of BLOB collective (NL) with Biyi Zhu and Sophie Waller. BLOB’s primary focus is exploring the intersection of the body and technology. Through the fabrication of different technologically bound spaces they aim to examine the physical encounter between these two entities. They have presented their work in DeSingel Arts Centre, Antwerp, 4bid Gallery, Amsterdam and Royal Conservatoire, Antwerp.

He is also a published writer with work featuring in journals and magazines such as Jelly Bucket Magazine, High Shelf Press, Icarus Magazine and Hot Press. He also works in the theatre scene as a performer with recent credits including Bros (dir. Romeo Castellucci) as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2022. Outside of the world of theatre, he works as an English language teacher.

Funding/Residencies and Further Training:

  • 2026- 2027 InSitu Platform Artist - InSitu, Lieux Publics, Creative Europe

  • 2026 DigiLiveAir Residency - Entraxis, Venice International Performance Art Week, Creative Europe

  • 2026 Professional Artist Development Fund - Creative Ireland/Meath Co. Co.

  • Resident Artist 2025/26 - Future Storytelling Lab (Zwolle, NL)

  • Participant Artist - 30cc Hackathon, Leuven, BE (December, 2025)

  • Awardee of Pan Pan International Mentorship 2025 with Caden Manson (supported Dublin Theatre Festival and Arts Council Ireland).

  • Resident Artist at PAF Massia - Massiaru, Estonia (May 2025)

  • Agility Award Recipient 2024 - funding from Arts Council Ireland for the development of ‘Still, It Moves’ project

  • Resident Artist at Theatre in Palm Residency (Creative Europe) - Sofia, Bulgaria (October-November 2024)

  • Participant Artist in RAIVE Summer School (The Algorithmic Gaze and CREATIE) at Royal Conservatory Antwerp/DE SINGEL International Arts Centre (September 2024)

  • Resident Artist at Labor Europa Performance Residency - Osnabrück, Germany (June 2023)

  • Aesthetic Transformation Processes Participant (Facilitated by Margit Shild, Elivira Hufschmid) – Berlin Summer University, Universität der Künste Berlin (June 2023)