Annabelle Comyn Director

Annabelle is an award winning Irish freelance theatre director, artistic director of Hatch Theatre Company and Director in Residence at The Lir, National Academy of Dramatic Arts, . She has been working as a theatre director for 24years and in recent years has established herself as one of Ireland’s leading theatre directors. She has directed work for The Abbey, Druid, The Gate, Landmark Productions, Theatre Festival and The Lyric Theatre, Belfast among others.

"A meticulously crafted play, acutely observed and fathoms deep, The Wake finds an exceptional director in Annabelle Comyn, someone in assured possession of its strange soul." ***** The Irish Time

Agents

Rose Cobbe Assistant Florence Hyde [email protected] +44 (0) 20 3214 0957

Credits

Theatre

Production Company Notes RAVENS: SPASSKY VS. FISCHER By Tom Morton-Smith 2019

ASKING FOR IT Landmark Productions, Adaption of Louise O'Neill's 2018 Everyman Cork and The novel by Meadhbh McHugh in Abbey collaboration with Annabelle Comyn

Look Back in Anger The Gate, Dublin By John Osborne 2018

United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes CRESTFALL Druid, Galway International By Mark O’Rowe 2017 Festival - The Mick Lally Theatre

HELEN AND I Druid, The Mick Lally By Meadhbh McHugh 2016 Theatre

The Wake By Tom Murphey 2016

DANCING AT LUGHNASA Lyric Theatre, Belfast by 2015

HEDDA GABLER Abbey Theatre In a new adaptation by Mark 2015 O’Rowe

THE VORTEX , Dublin By Noël Coward 2014

MAJOR BARBARA Abbey Theatre By Bernard Shaw 2013

THE TALK OF THE TOWN Hatch Theatre Company/ By Emma Donoghue 2012 Landmark Productions and Dublin Theatre Festival

THE HOUSE Abbey Theatre by Tom Murphy. 2012 Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Director

THE SIT Bewley's Cafe Theatre by Gavin Kostick 2011 Dublin Fringe Festival Best Male Performance nomination and Bewley’s Cafe Little Gem Award nomination

PYGMALION Abbey Theatre By Bernard Shaw 2011

LOVE AND MONEY Hatch Theatre Company in by 2009 association with

FURTHER THAN THE FURTHEST Hatch Theatre Company in by THING association with Project 2008 Arts Centre

A NUMBER Abbey Theatre Peacock By Caryl Churchill 2007 Stage

CRUEL AND TENDER Hatch Theatre Company in by 2007 association with Project Arts Centre

BLUE/ORANGE Abbey Theatre Peacock by 2006 Stage

United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes PYRENEES Hatch Theatre Company in by 2006 association with Project Arts Centre

WHEREABOUTS Fishamble in co-production Dublin Noir; My Brother is 2006 with Temple Bar Cultural Disappearing and Eclipsed 1 Trust and 11 for The Irish Times Award

BLOOD Hatch Theatre Company in by Lars Norén 2005 association with Project Arts Centre

THE COUNTRY Hatch Theatre Company in by Martin Crimp 2004 association with Project Arts Centre

CHURCHILL x3; TERRORISM; Samuel Beckett Centre, LOVEPLAY; THE STRIP; THE Trinity College Dublin POSSIBILITIES;MAD FOREST

TOP GIRLS NYU Tisch By Caryl Churchill

ASHES AND SAND Nukutheater, Estonia by Judy Upton

TWELFTH NIGHT The Granary Theatre, Cork By William Shakespeare

GOOD-BYE ROY , By Holly Baxter Baine (Exposure)

B22 Royal Court Theatre, (Young Writers’ Festival)

ROUGH ROAD TO SURVIVAL Royal Court Theatre, (Class)

UNDER THE SKIN in association with London Weekend Television and the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

THE LAMENT FOR ARTHUR Brockley Jack, London by Dermot Bolger CLEARY

THE ROCK STATION Finborough Theatre, London by Ger FitzGibbon

Opera

Production Company Notes DUBLINERS: COUNTERPARTS OTC and Wexford Two new operas by Andrew Synnott AND THE BOARDING HOUSE Opera Festival (composer) and Arthur Riordan (librettist), 2017 each based on one story from James Joyce's Dubliners.

United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected]