Since May 2023, Róise Goan has been Artistic Coordinator with Kunstencentrum Vierniulvier in Ghent, one of Europe’s leading contemporary arts centres.  From 2019, Róise was the Artistic Director of Artsadmin in London.  She has also worked as Guest Dramaturg at Vooruit in Belgium, and as a freelance arts programmer in Ireland. Under the banner of The Local Group, she created performance projects with artists and communities of place and interest in off-the-grid locations between 2015 and 2019.

She studied Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 2004. In 2008, she was appointed as Director of the Dublin Fringe Festival, which she led for five years, and where she established Fringe Lab, a year-round studio and artist-support programme.

Highlights of her freelance career include working with Prime Cut in Belfast on artist development, and two European Capital of Culture bids including Three Sisters 2020. Alongside her work in the performing arts, she has written for television, most notably the TG4 series Aifric.