Laoise graduated from Drama and Theatre Studies in Trinity College Dublin, with a First Class Honours and Gold Medal.
She is a co-founding member of tasteinyourmouth, an emerging experimental theatre company, along with collaborators Grace Morgan and William Dunleavy. Founded in January 2020, their debut production b(l)oom, in which Laoise performed, had a sold out run in The New Theatre, Dublin.

As a theatre maker and director, Laoise’s credits include: Narcissus (Dublin Fringe 2021, Chiswick Playhouse London), You’re Needy (Sounds Frustrating) (SHOW 2020), Oh Elle! (TDC Online Presentation), A Woman Under A Roof (Smock Alley Theatre), B(l)oom (Dolmen Theatre, Pearse Centre), After Your Ass (Triskel Arts Centre), The Baltimore Waltz (Samuel Beckett Theatre), Punk Rock (Players Theatre) and The Clean House (Samuel Beckett Theatre).

Acting credits include You’re Needy (Sounds Frustrating) (SHOW 2020), Oh Elle! (TDC Online Presentation), A Woman Under A Roof (Smock Alley Theatre), After Your Ass (Triskel Arts Centre), B(l)oom (The New Theatre, Dolmen Theatre, Pearse Centre), The WIN (National Tour), It’s A Puffin Classic (Samuel Beckett Theatre), The David Fragments (Samuel Beckett Theatre, Greenwood Theatre London), Pool (no water), The Berlin Project, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Samuel Beckett Theatre), Aunty Ben (Axis Theatre). 

Film and Television credits include Butterfly Diaries (Zanzibar Films), Five Letters to the Stranger Who Will Dissect My Brain (Oonagh Kearney with Junk Ensemble) The Delinquent Season (Neighbourhood Films), Out of Here (Stalker Films), The Importance of Being Whatever (Accomplice Television), The Tudors (Showtime).

Laoise was awarded an Arts Council Agility Award (2021), Theatre Bursary and Professional Development Award (2020), DLR Emerging Artist Bursary (2020), Creative Ireland Artist Development and Training Award (2020, 2019), and was one of 20 selected artists for the Abbey Theatre’s #20for20 programme 2019. 

She has participated in The Complex’s ART FACTORY residency (2021-22), Corcadorca’s TDC Online Residency (2021) and SHOW (2018, 2020), and Dunamaise Art Centre’s Open Stage Residency (2020-21).

Laoise also worked as a research assistant to Dr. Nicholas Johnson (School of Creative Arts, Trinity College Dublin) in the preparation of a European Research Commission Consolidator Grant
application, investigating worldwide actor training and proposing a new model of acting for the 21st century. 

She has studied Japanese for the past ten years, and holds an N3 certificate in the Japanese Language Proficiency test. She was the overall winner of  the 18th JLTI National Japanese Speech Contest in March 2020. Her current work focuses on bilingualism in performance, translation, and a cross-cultural look at the mythologies of Ireland and Japan.