Maree’s career in set and costume design has led to her being a regular creative collaborator with many of Ireland’s leading companies and directors in theatre, dance, opera, and musicals. She has created worlds for performance on stages big and small across the country and internationally, in site-specific locations, immersive experiences and outdoor productions.
Among her most recent work was Palimpsest by David Bolger and CoisCeim Dance Theatre, Hammam by Añu Productions and the Abbey Theatre, and the world première of Somewhere Out there You by Nancy Harris at the Abbey Theatre.
Other work includes Sive at the Gaiety Theatre, Flight by Jonathan Dove for Opera Collective, costume design for the widely acclaimed production of Staging the Treaty with Añu Productions, The Blackwater Lightship for the Dublin Theatre Festival at the Gaiety and Orfeo ed Eurydice for Blackwater Valley Opera Festival.
In 2022, Maree was chosen to be the lead artist by the Abbey Theatre on a production of The Three Monologues by Jennifer Johnson at the Peacock Theatre, a new initiative where the designer took the reins as the creative lead of the show.
Maree’s design work has spanned almost 2 decades and counts set and costume designs for The Abbey & Peacock Theatres, The Ark, Añu Productions, Everyman Theatre, Fishamble Theatre Company, CoisCeim Dance Theatre Company, Cork Opera House, Corn Exchange, An Grianann Theatre, Nomad Theatre Network, Landmark Productions, RIAM, The Lir Academy, Verdant Productions and many more.
Maree has also worked extensively in television and film and is the course director for the Masters in Theatre Design at the Lir Academy in Dublin. She is the recipient of the Tanya Moiseiwitsch design award at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in 2024.
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