Claire O’Reilly

Director

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Jessica Stewart

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Claire 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. Recent projects include 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). She is currently developing a drama for young people for RTÉ.