Still, life...
A newly commissioned immersive opera for the 75th Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland 2026
Will It Be Easy?
A piece which explores strange stories through BSL, film, live contemporary classical music, new writing and live drawing, response to the archives at the British Music Collection
Hidden Heartache
Münchener Biennale 2026 Festival für neues Musiktheater. A new music-theater work with OX&ÖL
I Used To Feel
A site-specific, music-theatre piece which explores experiences of deafness and communication break-down. It is performed in a hotel room.
Cimmerian
In Cimmerian I was aiming to capture, as truthfully as possible, that vacuum of blackness which depression can launch upon us
Distant Interiors
A short film by Melanie Clifford and Rebecca Key with music by Ailís Ní Ríain, commissioned by Drake Music, London, 2011.
Wired
A passionate and potent aerial and contemporary dance experience that tells race, gender, and disability stories of barbed wire in the United States.
Brief-Blue-Electric-Bloom
A piece of music-theatre which combines contemporary classical music, sign language, poetry and animation. It uses the Cimbalom, a Hungarian string instrument, and electric guitar/banjo.
Sklonište
Combining the experiences of international aid-workers and the surrealism of war, Sklonište, for live musician and video, is a 60 minute reflection on the longest siege in modern warfare
Delia Derbyshire Day
Ailís co-founded Delia Derbyshire Day in 2012 and produced the first Delia Derbyshire Day 2013 which took place at Band on the Wall, Manchester, England.