Órla Mc Govern is an award-winning storyteller, performer, writer and facilitator based in Galway, Ireland. She performs and teaches around the world from arena stages, to cottages, from the Antrim Glens to the Finnish Forests.

Órla works regularly in improvisation, film and television and is the Artistic Director of  The Moth & Butterfly Storytelling collective and festival.  As a writer, she makes work for stage and film and has two books of stories for children. She’s been a member of Interface Inagh,  Praxis, and Storytellers of Ireland. She is delighted to be back in Oulu.