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- Rachel O'Riordan (born 1974) is an Irish theatre director. She is currently the artistic director at the Lyric Hammersmith, London.
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Rachel O'Riordan (born 1974) is an Irish theatre director. She is currently the artistic director at the Lyric Hammersmith, London. [2] Early life and education. Born in Cork, Ireland to poet and novelist Robert Anthony Welch and Angela O'Riordan Welch, O'Riordan first trained as a ballet dancer.
- Irish
- 1974 (age 48–49), Cork, Ireland
- Theatre director
- Artistic director, Lyric Theatre
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- ‘Younger People Should Take Heart’
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As well as a broad view of the nation’s theatre, her journey has instilled an intense dislike of dismissive or patronising talk of ‘the regions’. “I hate that term,” she says. “I don’t use it. I ran a theatre in the capital of a country, Wales, in Cardiff. I ran a theatre company in the capital of Northern Ireland, in Belfast. There’s nothing ‘regi...
O’Riordan is fresh from a meeting with fellow director Conor Mitchell, who she showed around her new workplace. “I brought him into the auditorium afterwards and we sat there for half an hour just talking about ideas and what we might make together. And he said: ‘God, these theatres… They take you somewhere, don’t they?’ And they do. There’s someth...
What was your first professional theatre job? It was as a movement director, for the Belfast company Kabosh, on a show called Strange!, which was directed by Karl Wallace. What was your first non-theatre job? Bar work and waitressing; lots of it. In London and in Belfast. What is your next job? I’ve been here six months… So who knows? What do you w...
O’Riordan knew she had found her thing. “But it took a long time to get there, and I think younger people should take heart, because it isn’t always step by step by step, particularly if you’re not networked in, as I wasn’t, or if you don’t have loads of money. It can feel really impenetrable. I don’t want to sound chippy, but there’s a lot of priv...
It was also a swift education in the more hard-headed side of the artistic director role, knowledge that would become vital when, three years later, she moved to Wales to take over at the Sherman Theatre – only to see the theatre’s entire Cardiff Council grant cut before her tenure had even begun. As if that weren’t enough, the Sherman was “not in ...
Born: 1974, Cork, Ireland Training: None Landmark productions: • Hurricane, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh (2003),Soho Theatre (2004),East 59th Street Theatre, New York (2004) • The Absence of Women, Lyric Belfast/TricycleTheatre (2011) • The Seafarer, Perth Theatre/ Lyric Belfast (2013) • Iphigenia In Splott,Sherman (2015), National Theatre (2016) • Ki...
Oct 13, 2021 · by Rachel O'Riordan Wednesday, 13 October 2021. Mag-nificent: Ingrid Craigie as Mag Folan Helen Maybanks. The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a vicious, sad and extraordinary play. On the surface, Martin McDonagh's play, first seen 25 years ago and revived now in a collaboration between Chichester Festival Theatre and my home base, the Lyric ...
Lyric Hammersmith's Rachel O'Riordan interview: 'Be fearless in the face of everything' Big plans: Rachel O’Riordan took over at the Lyric in February. Daniel Hambury/@stellapicsltd....
Jan 29, 2016 · Rachel O’Riordan is an Irish-born artistic director of Sherman Cymru in Cardiff, a major producing theatre in Wales. She talks about her journey from dance to directing, her challenges and achievements at Perth Theatre and Sherman, and her vision for the future of Welsh theatre.
Mar 23, 2017 · Rachel O’Riordan, artistic director at the Sherman Theatre, is one of 40 Artistic and Executive Directors who signed an open letter protesting The Guardian ‘s decision to stop Lyn Gardner’s blog. And breaking down theatre’s image as elitist and broadening audiences is something O’Riordan returns to frequently in our discussion.
