Niamh Gormley

Niamh Gormley is an award-winning Northern Irish screenwriter, a member of the Writers Guild of Ireland, and co-founder of Lír Pictures. Fascinated by the power of storytelling to heal and make sense of the chaos around us, she writes character-led dramas about outsider women drawn into extraordinary circumstances. Through Lír Pictures, she has co-developed a slate of screenplays spanning TV and film, including Boa Island, a supernatural epic family drama set in Northern Ireland’s Lakelands. Her short film screenplay Snapping Back (semi-finalist, Imagine This Women’s Film Festival) is a dark comedy about the pressures of new motherhood. Niamh’s 1920s period drama Bridget in Manhattan, developed through Sundance Collab’s Outline-to-First Draft Pilot Program, has garnered two international Best TV Pilot Screenplay awards and nine best TV Pilot nominations. Lír Pictures is also developing Dippers, a bilingual Irish-English murder mystery, and Luscus, an adaptation of writer Maureen Boyle’s award-winning memoir. She is passionate about using emerging AI technologies to amplify untold stories and bring them from page to screen.