Yvonne Coughlan, MA Theatre & Drama-UCC, from Kinsale is a writer, director & creative producer. She founded RSVP (Red Sandstone Varied Productions) in Nov. 2006, & since then created arts participation events; wrote &/or directed site specific, promenade, musical & traditional proscenium theatre, music videos, short film, art film; produced promotional tourism video, advertising video, documentary film; produced &presented radio podcasts, in Ireland, England, Scotland, Greece, Norway, Poland, Germany, USA & Australia, with creatives worldwide.

Though her heart lies with casting & directing performers, she is also a travel TV presenter, MC & singer. She holds 5 Best Script awards for short film script Regret, which she plans to direct/produce with Maurice Supple alongside their experimental process film Forgiveness in Fragments; she holds 2 best director awards for internationally multi-award winning, experimental silent short, An Étude in Art; & won best director for Embrace the World music video, a multi-vocal rock ballad by Kevin Walsh.

Voluntary positions held are Chairperson of the board for Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Co-Ordinator for The National Campaign for the Arts in Cork South West, & founding chair of Kinsale Youth Theatre Project.

Among her proudest creations is the groundbreaking Inclusive Dance Cork, an accredited training for dancers; integrating all bodies in professional dance. Yvonne is a founder member of the team, including DCFC, Suishe Arts-Horizons, Cork ETB, UCC who envisioned and created this dance education programme. Along with IDC Artistic Director Rhona Coughlan, and Head of UCC Theatre Dept. Yvon Bonenfant, she accepted the Community Foundation Ireland Access Award at the 2024 Business to Arts Awards. IDC is now embracing a new partnership with UL.

She is a VO artist for video production company Visitorflix Media Group the inflight travel video specialists. Since 2014 she has produced Kinsale Halloween festivities, & the team are grateful that the participatory arts of An Tulca Festival, are supported by Cork County Arts Office, Failte Ireland, Pure Cork, Eli Lilly, TTK, First South Credit Union, Fanzini, RSVP, Super Valu, The EventHub and the local Kinsale community.

Yvonne produced Yvon Bonenfant's arts participation projects in vocal art The Opposite of Queer Trauma for Cork Midsummer Festival 2025, and, Loop Love at Cork Opera House 2023 in collaboration with Alex Pentek & Jeffrey Weeter. Most recently she became an Occasional Lecturer & Postgrad tutor at UCC. She is the director of The Lord Mayor's Gala Christmas concert; & is editing her play Hold on Tight based on excellent feedback from Fishamble & The Abbey Theatre, as well as, completing her script for TV mini series, Surviving Eve.