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Tara has been a performer since 1990.
Recent TV roles include Siobhan in Hide & Seek, directed by Dearbhla Walsh, and several lead characters in Grand Pictures’ IFTA-winning sketch comedy series Stew. She played Gayle Ryder on RTE’s X-it File, and has appeared as a panellist on The Panel and The Big Bite, and doing stand-up on The Liffey Laugh.

Recent theatre includes playing the original Surfia in the smash hit musical I, Keano at the Olympia and Suzy Bernstein in I Do Not Like Thee Doctor Fell as part of the Abbey Theatre centenary. Tara also played the majority of female characters in Stewart Lee’s production of Talk Radio at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe.

In 1999 Tara joined the acclaimed Dublin Comedy Improv team, performing at the Melbourne, Adelaide, Kilkenny Cat Laughs and Edinburgh Fringe comedy festivals. She has been a special guest with improvisers from Whose Line Is It Anyway? and London’s Comedy Store Players. As a stand-up, Tara has appeared at the above festivals and all over Ireland.

In 2002/3 the Improv team devised the hit Comedy Improv Radio Show for RTE and Tara was the sole female cast member in Henderson’s History of the World. She played Maria Scillachi in Karl McDermott’s radio sitcom Here’s Johnny (2006) and has appeared in numerous radio plays, including daily soap Riverrun as Jane Larkin. An accomplished singer, she was a founder member of comedy-singing trio, The Nualas.

Tara wrote a weekly column for the Evening Herald It’s Friday magazine for over 2 years and is a guest columnist for the Irish Independent. Her radio piece Ma, Pa and Dangerous to Know was part of RTE’s 2001 Stand Up Stories season and she co-wrote and performed ‘Tis A Pity She’s Anonymous with Deirdre O’Kane for the Edinburgh Fringe and sell-out runs at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre and Vicar Street.

Tara is currently appearing in Paul Merton’s new improv -based comedy show Thank God You’re Here on ITV1.

Tara is represented in the U.K. by International Artistes