Ms Dayna Killian has a first class degree in Drama and Theatre Studies with English Literature from Liverpool Hope University, and an MSc in Global Financial Information Systems from Waterford Institute of Technology. Dayna is the PhD candidate for the ‘Performing Women’ project at WIT. As a Fulbright Student Awardee, she will study at the University of Notre Dame in order to further explore the representation of women playwrights and Irish womanhood on the Abbey stage in the first half of the 20th c.