Conor Hanratty is a theatre and opera director from Dublin. He trained with Rough Magic's SEEDS programme and has an MFA in Directed from the Schol of Theater Film & Television at UCLA. He spent two years in Tokyo studying with the director Ninagawa Yukio, on a Japanese Government Scholarship at Waseda University.

Recent productions include the new production of John Tiffany’s Once in Seoul, Korea and the Irish premiere of The Walk from the Garden by Jonathan Dove for Opera Collective Ireland. Conor also directed Stanford’s The Critic to five-star reviews for the Wexford Opera Festival in 2024. Other recent credits include Aeschylus’ Na Peirsigh (The Persians) for the Abbey Theatre, An Lár for Glass Mask Theatre, L’Italiana in Algeri and an adaptation of Colm Tóibín's The Master (with music by Alberto Caruso) for Wexford Opera Festival, Country and Irish by Pat McCabe, Persians | The Podcast - Unplugged at the Peacock Theatre and tours of both King Lear and Romeo and Juliet for Festival in a Van. During the pandemic he directed Ghost Apples, a film for Irish National Opera with music by Irene Buckley and words by Jessica Traynor, completed The Hamlet Podcast and wrote War Paint, a short film for Fishamble's 24/7 project.

Conor is Artistic Director of Ulysses Opera Theatre, founded in 2012, and is a board member of The Everyman in Cork.

His book about Ninagawa was published by the Arden Shakespeare in 2020, with a revised paperback released in late 2021. You can order it here.