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, Ireland. 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, Dublin 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 Hampstead Theatre 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 London 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 Abbey Theatre By Tom Murphey 2016
DANCING AT LUGHNASA Lyric Theatre, Belfast by Brian Friel 2015
HEDDA GABLER Abbey Theatre In a new adaptation by Mark 2015 O’Rowe
THE VORTEX Gate Theatre, 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 Dennis Kelly 2009 association with Project Arts Centre
FURTHER THAN THE FURTHEST Hatch Theatre Company in by Zinnie Harris 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 Martin Crimp 2007 association with Project Arts Centre
BLUE/ORANGE Abbey Theatre Peacock by Joe Penhall 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 David Greig 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 Royal Court Theatre, 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]