CONOR
HANRATTY
STAGE DIRECTOR

PRODUCTIONS | THEATRE

PERSIANS / KING LEAR / ROMEO & JULIET / POSTSCRIPT / THE ODD COUPLE / END OF / TO HELL IN A HANDBAG / THE FEVER /

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL / 

LAST AUTUMN / ROMEO & JULIET / 

PAINS OF YOUTH / MODERN NOH PLAYS /

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING / ARCADIA /

ROUGH FOR THEATRE / TROJAN WOMEN

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PRODUCTIONS | OPERA

I CAPULETI & I MONTECCHI / LA BOHEME / COSI FAN TUTTE / LA TRAVIATA / CARMEN SILENT NIGHT / VAMPIRELLA / JEPHTHE 

COMBATTIMENTO / THE FAIRY QUEEN /

MADAMA BUTTERFLY /TROUBLE IN TAHITI

FRONT of HOUSE - BACKSTAGE - THE STALLS / 

TROUBLE IN TAHITI / LOSERS /GREED /

MARIA DE BUENOS AIRES / SENSATIONAL! /

THE BELFAST OPERA / TRIAL BY JURY /

GREED /  THE TELEPHONE / TIRSI & CLORI / 

LOSERS / A HAND OF BRIDGE / FLATPACK /

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I am a theatre and opera director from Dublin, Ireland. I trained on Rough Magic's SEEDS programme and on the National Theatre Directors' Course in London. I was a Young Artist at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2014 and 2015. 

Most recently I directed a live version of Persians | The Podcast on the Peacock stage at the Abbey Theatre, in collaboration with Once Off Productions and Classics Now. It reworked the podcast I developed during the pandemic, introducing a new Irish-language translation of Aeschylus by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. You can listen to it here.  

Last summer, working with John O'Brien, I directed reimagined, Covid-compliant versions of La Bohème, La Traviata and Cosi Fan Tutte for Cork Opera House and their Cara O'Sullivan Associate Artists. Earlier in 2021 I developed a touring production of King Lear for Festival in a Van, following a version of Romeo & Juliet in autumn 2020. Pre-Covid, I directed a new revival of Noelle Brown and Michele Forbes' POSTSCRIPT for a tour to London and a revival of To Hell in a Handbag at the newly-restored Bewleys Café Theatre in Dublin. During the 2019-2020 season I remounted Tomer Zvulun's production of Silent Night in Salt Lake City, and was at work on his Eugene Onegin for Palm Beach Opera when the cancellations began in March 2020. Productions of The Flying Dutchman for Utah Opera and Paper Boat (a new opera by Elaine Agnew and Jessica Traynor for Galway 2020 and Irish National Opera) was likewise cancelled. 

For the 2018-19 season I was the The Jerry & Dulcy Rosenberg Resident Stage Director at the Atlanta Opera. During the season I remounted Silent Night at Austin Opera, as well working as staff director on Charlie Parker's Yardbird, West Side Story, Eugene Onegin, Maria de Buenos Aires and La Traviata in Atlanta. This was followed by a summer in Cork, where I directed the third part of Ulysses Opera Theatre's The House Trilogy, and the female version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple at the Everyman.

I studied at Trinity College, Dublin, at Royal Holloway in London, and at the School of Theatre, Film and Television at UCLA. I lived in Tokyo for two years, on a Japanese Government Scholarship at Waseda University. While I was in Japan I spent over a year studying with director Yukio Ninagawa. My book about him was published in 2020 by The Arden Shakespeare. An expanded paperback version came out in September 2021.

For four years I wrote and presented a weekly podcast about Shakespeare's Hamlet. The main body of work concluded in July 2021, but you can still listen to it here.

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