• WELCOME
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Katie O'Halloran

director

  • WELCOME
  • ABOUT
  • COACHING
  • CONTACT
  • DIRECTING

Directing

  • 2025. Film. A Good Funeral by Aoife Martyn. Actor as Creator Short Film. Dublin, Ireland.

  • 2025. Theatre. Cock by Mike Bartlett. Smock Alley Theatre. Dublin.

  • 2025. Theatre. Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepard. The Lir Academy; Final Year Production. Dublin.

  • 2024. Musical Theatre. An Ghaeltacht: The Musical by Shauna Carrick. Development supported by DLR Mill Theatre, Galway Theatre Festival, An Taibhdhearc.

  • 2024. Theatre. Happy Capital by Tommy Harris. Dublin Fringe Festival. Dublin. Nominated for Bewley’s Little Gem Award, Fishamble’s New Writing Award, and the Fortnight award.

  • 2024. Theatre. The Wonderful World of Dissocia by Anthony Neilson. Dublin Youth Theatre. Smock Alley Theatre. Dublin.

  • 2024. Music Videos. Times We Shared in Innocence - Visual EP (6 Music Videos). Molly Donnery. Co. Laois.

  • 2024. Music Video. Goodnight Sexy People. Ben Bix ft Nevvv, Little O. Dublin.

  • 2024. Theatre. Eden Hotel by Emilie Hetland. Tou Scene. Development. Stavanger, Norway.

  • 2024. Theatre. The Skin We Shed by Tanya Bridgeman. Rachel Baptiste Programme/Dublin Theatre Festival. Dublin.

  • 2024. Musical Theatre. The Red Trials by Andrew Dawson. Fringe Lab. Development. Dublin.

  • 2024. Theatre. In Vitro by Aoife O’Connor. International Gay Theatre Festival. Dublin.

  • 2024. Theatre. Big Maggie by John B. Keane. The Lir Academy; Irish Rep Project. Dublin.

  • 2024. Theatre. NEST/SOAR Spréacha Festival. Draíocht Blanchardstown. Dublin.

  • 2024. Music/Music Video. Cello Power Music Video. Dublin.

  • 2024. Music/Dance-Theatre. Musici Ireland. Dance/Music development on Unseen Disabilities piece. Dublin.

  • 2024. Theatre. Happy Capital by Tommy Harris. Smock Alley Theatre. Development. Dublin.

  • 2024. Corporate/Theatre. AIB Leadership Conference. 3Arena. Dublin.

  • 2024. Theatre. 24 Hour Plays. Writer: Derek O’Connor. Abbey Theatre. Dublin.

  • 2024. Theatre. 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane. Eva’s Echo. Mick Lally Theatre. Development. Galway.

  • 2023. Theatre. The Perfect Immigrant by Samuel Yakura. Irish National Tour.

  • 2023. Theatre. Hamlet by William Shakespeare. DLR Mill Theatre. Dublin.

  • 2023. Theatre. Revolutionary by Emilie Hetland. Stavanger Konserthus. Stavanger, Norway.

  • 2022. Theatre. The Perfect Immigrant by Samuel Yakura. Dublin Fringe Festival. Nominated for Bewley’s Little Gem Award and Fishamble’s New Writing Award.

  • 2022. Theatre. The Pendulum Moon by Laura Hennessey DeSena. Druid Theatre. Reading. Galway.

  • 2022. Musical Theatre. Tír na nÓg by Shauna Carrick. Aon Scéal Theatre/DLR Mill Theatre. Dublin.

  • 2022. Theatre. Chatroom by Enda Walsh. Dublin Youth Theatre.

  • 2021. Theatre. Eleanora Salter & the Monster from the Sea by Jane Madden. Dublin Fringe Festival.

  • 2021. Theatre/Film. Almost by Darragh Feehely. Full Measure Theatre. Dublin.

  • 2021. Music Video. “Johanna (Reprise)” by Eleri Ward. New York City.

  • 2021. Music Video. “More” by Eleri Ward. New York City.

  • 2021. Film/Documentary. “What You Will” produced by Bugs Bees & Native Trees. Featuring Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Fleabag, All of us Strangers). Dublin.

  • 2021. Music Video. “WB” by The X Collective. Dublin.

  • 2019-2020: MFA in Theatre Directing at The Lir Academy.

  • 2019. Dance Film. Roots. Written & Directed by Katie O’Halloran. Performed by Niani Feelings. New York City.

  • 2019. Event/Theatre. Mystical Menagerie: Annual CTC Fundraiser. Children’s Theatre Company. Co-Directed with Peter Brosius. Minneapolis.

  • 2018. Theatre. The Robbed that Smiles. Written and Directed by Katie O’Halloran. Women of Will Collective. Minneapolis.

  • 2018. Theatre. Peter Pan by JM Barrie. Blue Water Theatre Company. Minneapolis.

  • 2018. Theatre. Trifles by Susan Glaspell. Pale Blue Dot Theatre Company. Minneapolis.

  • 2018. Theatre. Wave (Or the Moment the Earth Shook) by Ida Esmaeili. Pale Blue Dot Theatre Company. Minneapolis.

  • 2018. Theatre. Finale by Kendra Fanconi. Pale Blue Dot Theatre Company. Minneapolis.

  • 2018. Theatre. Mother by Chantal Bilodeau. Pale Blue Dot Theatre Company. Minneapolis.

  • 2017. Theatre. Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Blue Water Theatre Company. Minneapolis.

  • 2016. Theatre. Lungs by Duncan Macmillan. Pale Blue Dot Theatre Company. Boston.

  • 2013-2017: BFA in Musical Theatre at The Boston Conservatory.


Associate/ assistant directing

  • 2023. Theatre. Director: Garry Hynes. DruidO’Casey; The Plough and the Stars, The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock. Druid Theatre. Town Hall theatre (Galway), Abbey Theatre (Dublin), Lyric Theatre (Belfast).

  • 2023. Opera. Director: Bruno Ravella. Der Rosenkavalier. Irish National Opera. Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. Dublin.

  • 2022. Opera. Director: Orpha Phelan. Don Pasquale. Irish National Opera. Irish National Tour.

  • 2022. Theatre. Director: Sara Joyce. The Last Return. Druid Theatre. Mick Lally Theatre (Galway), Gate Theatre (Dublin).

  • 2021. Opera. Director: Annabelle Comyn. Fidelio. Irish National Opera. Gaiety Theatre. Dublin.

  • 2020. Theatre. Director: Caroline Byrne. Eclipsed by Patricia Burke Brogan. The Lir Academy. Dublin.

  • 2020. Theatre. Director: Davey Kelleher. As You Like It by William Shakespeare. The Lir Academy. Dublin.

  • 2019. Musical Theatre. Director: Peter Brosius. Matilda: The Musical. Children’s Theatre Company. Minneapolis.


Awards/ residencies

  • 2024. Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. Mentor: Marty Rea.

  • 2024. Activate Residency at Backstage Longford. 1-week Paid residency with Douglas Reddan as collaborator. Development of dance-theatre production. Co. Longford, Ireland.

  • 2024. Pavilion Studio Residency. 1-week paid residency to write/develop multiple scripts. Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.

  • 2022. Irish National Opera. Selected as a studio director for the 2022-23 Season.

  • 2022. The Perfect Immigrant by Samuel Yakura. Nominated for Bewley’s Little Gem Award. Nominated for Fishamble New Writing Award.

  • 2021. Druid Theatre. Marie Mullen Bursary. 1-Year residency with Druid.

  • 2021. Trinity College Equality Fund. Funding awarded for research and panel discussion on decolonising theatre curriculum & fostering equity in the Irish theatre industry.

  • 2020. MFA (Distinction) in Theatre Directing from The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

  • 2017. BFA (Hons) in Musical Theatre from The Boston Conservatory. Emphasis in Directing, Acting and Songwriting.