Katie O’Halloran

Katie is a Dublin-​based stage and screen direc­tor, orig­i­nally from Min­neapo­lis, Min­nesota. She works across mul­ti­ple medi­ums in Ire­land and internationally.

Her work cel­e­brates the­atri­cal­ity, exam­ines the mate­ri­al­ity and effects of bor­ders and con­fines, and pri­ori­tises a thor­ough prob­ing of the text. She fuses her love of analysing lan­guage with detailed vocal and phys­i­cal work, as she firmly believes that “actors write with their bodies”.

In 2022, Katie was the recip­i­ent of the Marie Mullen Bur­sary with Druid The­atre. In 2023, she returned to Druid as assis­tant direc­tor to Garry Hynes for their award-​winning DruidO’Casey pro­duc­tion. Katie was also selected as a Studio­ Direc­tor with the Irish National Opera and worked with the com­pany through­out their 2022 – 2023 season.

As a writer, she was awarded the Pavil­ion Stu­dio Res­i­dency to develop her plays Fionúir, Smile & Be a Vil­lain and Count of Three.

In 2024, she was selected along­side chore­o­g­ra­pher Dou­glas Red­dan, to develop a dance-​theatre piece, Home House, as part of Back­stage Longford’s Acti­vate Residency.

With a back­ground in sto­ry­telling through dance and music, Katie has directed music videos for The X Col­lec­tive, Molly Don­nery and Ben Bix, as well as the crit­i­cally acclaimed singer-​songwriter Eleri Ward in New York City.

In 2021, she directed a refor­esta­tion doc­u­men­tary, What You Can, fea­tur­ing Irish actors Andrew Scott and Alex Murphy.

Katie holds a BFA (Hons) in Musi­cal The­atre from The Boston Con­ser­va­tory (con­cen­tra­tions in Direct­ing, Act­ing, Song­writ­ing) and an MFA (Dis­tinc­tion) in Direct­ing from The Lir National Acad­emy of Dra­matic Art.

 

 

• Director
• Opera
• Writer