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Claire O’Reilly is an Irish theatre director based between London and Dublin.
She is the director of the award-winning, internationally touring, new work collective Malaprop Theatre.
Upcoming projects include BÁN by Carys Coburn (Abbey Theatre, 2025). Recent projects include Amelia by Dee Roycroft (Dublin Theatre Festival 2024), Emma, adapted by Kate Hamill (Abbey Theatre 2024), Little Deaths by Amy Powell Yeates (Summerhall 2024), Talking About the Fire by Chris Thorpe (Royal Court 2023), Hothouse (Malaprop, Dublin Fringe 2023, winner of Best Production at Dublin Fringe Awards), This Solution by Shaun Dunne (Dublin Theatre Festival 2023), Bulrusher by Eisa Davis (The Lir Academy 2023), A Family Business by Chris Thorpe (Staatstheater Mainz 2022), Accents by Emmet Kirwan (Dublin Fringe 2022), Christine by Jennifer Jonson (Peacock Theatre Dublin 2022), Where Sat the Lovers by Carys Coburn (Dublin Fringe 2021).
Associate director credits include A Streetcar Named Desire (dir. Rebecca Frecknall, Phoenix Theatre 2023), Dr. Semmelweis (dir. Tom Morris, Harold Pinter 2023). Assistant director credits include Uncle Vanya (Sonia Friedman Productions 2020) and Translations (Royal National Theatre 2019), both dir. Ian Rickson.
Claire is a former Resident Director at the Abbey Theatre (2022-2023). She has a Master’s in Drama Directing from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (2019) and is a graduate of Film and Theatre at Trinity College Dublin (2015).
‘One of Ireland’s most exciting directors’ – Tom Galvin, The Independent
Credits
Credits
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DateProduction (role)CompanyProject details
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Date: 2025Production (role): BÁNCompany: Abbey TheatreProject details: Written by Carys D. Coburn
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Date: 2024/25Production (role): EmmaCompany: Abbey TheatreProject details:
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Date: 2024Production (role): AmeliaCompany: Dublin Theatre FestivalProject details:
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Date: 2023Production (role): Talking About the FireCompany: Royal Court TheatreProject details: ‘A genre-defining piece of activist theatre’
Katie Kirkpatrick, Broadway World ★★★★★ -
Date: 2023Production (role): This SolutionCompany: Project Arts CentreProject details:
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Date: 2023Production (role): HothouseCompany: Project Arts CentreProject details: ‘Deadly serious and wildly funny… Sharp, nuanced script rips along under Claire O’Reilly’s assured, quirky direction’
Deirdre Falvey, The Irish Times ★★★★★
* Winner of Best Production & Best Design Ensemble at the Dublin Fringe Awards 2023 -
Date: 2023Production (role): BulrusherCompany: The LirProject details:
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Date: 2022Production (role): A Family BusinessCompany: Staatstheater MainzProject details:
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Date: 2022Production (role): AccentsCompany: Project Arts CentreProject details:
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Date: 2021Production (role): Where Sat the LoversCompany: Dublin FringeProject details:
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Date: 2020Production (role): Marie AntoinetteCompany: Egg Theatre BathProject details:
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Date: 2020Production (role): Before You Say AnythingCompany: Chapel Royal in Dublin CastleProject details:
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Date: 2018Production (role): HOMECompany: BlanchardstownProject details:
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Date: 2018Production (role): Everything Not SavedCompany: Project Arts CentreProject details: ‘Malaprop’s deeply layered meta-theatricality dances a step ahead of the audience, teasing and probing.’
Kate Wyver, The Guardian ★★★★ -
Date: 2019Production (role): We Want You To WatchCompany: The Wardrobe Theatre BristolProject details:
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Date: 2019Production (role): WONDER BOYCompany: Bristol Old Vic StudiosProject details:
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Date: 2018Production (role): JERICHOCompany: Underbelly EdinburghProject details:
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Date:Production (role): BlackCatfishMusketeerCompany: SummerhallProject details:
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Date:Production (role): LOVE+Company: Beijing Inside Out FestivalProject details:
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Date:Production (role): CHRISTINECompany: Peacock TheatreProject details:
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Date:Production (role): EASTCompany: Samuel Beckett TheatreProject details:
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DateProduction (role)CompanyProject details
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Date: 2023Production (role): A Streetcar Named DesireCompany: Phoenix TheatreProject details: Associate Director
Director: Rebecca Frecknall -
Date: 2022Production (role): The Meaning of ZongCompany: Bristol Old VicProject details: Associate Director
Director: Tom Morris -
Date: 2022Production (role): Dr. SemmelweisCompany: Bristol Old VicProject details: Associate Director
Director: Tom Morris -
Date: 2021Production (role): Straight To VideoCompany: Landmark ProductionsProject details: Associate Director
Director: Philly McMahon -
Date: 2022Production (role): Absent the WrongCompany: Dublin FringeProject details: Associate Director
Director: Veronica Coburn -
Date: 2020Production (role): UNCLE VANYACompany: Harold Pinter TheatreProject details: Assistant Director
Director: Ian Rickson
*Nomination - Best Director Olivier Awards -
Date: 2019Production (role): TRANSLATIONSCompany: National TheatreProject details: Assistant Director
Director: Ian Rickson -
Date: 2018Production (role): The Caucasian Chalk CircleCompany: Tobacco Factory TheatresProject details: Assistant Director
Director: Jesse Jones -
Date: 2017Production (role): Mr BurnsCompany: Project Arts Centre, DublinProject details: Assistant Director
Director: Ronan Phelan -
Date: 2017Production (role): Dublin By Lamplight
Company: The Abbey Theatre, DublinProject details: Assistant Director
Director: Annie Ryan