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Paul Keogan

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

2015 UK Theatre Award for Best Design with Dick Bird and Timothy Bird for The Hudsucker Proxy Nuffield Theatre/Liverpool Everyman

2014 Knight of Illumination Award for No Man's Land by English National Ballet

Productions

2024

DANCING AT LUGHNASA

Director: Caroline Byrne
Gate Theatre, Ireland

CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION

Director: Róisín McBrinn
Gate Theatre, Ireland

FAITH HEALER

Director: Rachel O'Riordan
Lyric Theatre Hammersmith

JILLY MORGAN'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

Director: Joan Sheehy
Belltable, Limerick

NA PEIRSIGH/PERSIANS

Director: Connor Hanratty
Abbey Theatre, Dublin

KRAPP'S LAST TAPE Director: Vicky Featherstone
Landmark Productions, Dublin
 
LA TRAVIATA

Director: Olivia Fuchs
Irish National Opera

2023

KING LEAR Director: Kenneth Branagh
Wyndham's Theatre
 
QUAKE
(Set and Lighting Design)
Director: Conall Morrison
Dublin Theatre Festival/Mermaid Arts Centre
 
AINADAMAR Director: Deborah Colker
WNO
 
HAPPY DAYS

Director: Caitríona McLaughlin
Cork Opera House/3Olympia, Dublin/Birmingham Rep

LOBBY HERO

Director: Annabelle Comyn
The Lir Academy

MASTERCLASS

Director: Conor Hanratty
Smock Alley Theatre

FOUNTAIN OF TEARS (AINADAMAR)

Director: Deborah Colker
Detroit Opera

TALES FROM THE HOLYWELL

Director: Conor McPherson
Abbey Theatre, Dublin

2022

SEMELE

Director: Patrick Mason
Kilkenny Arts Festival/Pavillion Theatre Dun Laoghaire

GUESTS OF THE NATION

Corcadorca Theatre Company
Cork Opera House

MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Director: Joe Dowling
The Lir Academy

SCANDALTOWN

Director: Rachel O’Riordan
Lyric Hammersmith

THE STEWARD OF CHRISTENDOM

Director: Louise Lowe
Gate Theatre, Dublin

TRANSLATIONS

Director: Caitríona McLaughlin
Lyric Theatre Belfast & Abbey Theatre

PORTIA COUGHLAN

Director: Caroline Byrne
Abbey Theatre

AINADAMAR

Director: Deborah Colker
Scottish National Opera

DOUBT: A PARABLE

Director: Lia Williams
Chichester Festival Theatre

2021

THE TREATY

Director: Conall Morrison
Fishamble 

DUCK DUCK GOOSE

Director: Jim Culleton
Fishamble

FIDELIO

Director: Annabelle Comyn
Irish National Opera

THE GONDOLIERS/ UTOPIA LTD

Director: Stuart Maunder
Scottish National Opera/D'Oyly Carte Opera/State Opera South Australia

WALLS AND WINDOWS

Director: Jason Byrne
Abbey Theatre

THE NAKED HAND

Director: Amanda Coogan
Lyric Theatre, Belfast

ELEKTRA

Director: Conall Morrison
Irish National Opera

SEMELE
(Set and Lighting)

Director: Patrick Mason
Opera Collective Ireland

SADIE

Director: Conleth Hill
Lyric Theatre Belfast & BBC Arts

HAPPY DAYS

Director: Caitríona McLaughlin
Landmark Productions

2020

20 SHOTS OF OPERA

Irish National Opera

PAPER BOAT
(Set and Lighting)

Director: Connor Hanratty
Music for Galway

SHIRLEY VALENTINE
(Set and  Lighting)

Director: Patrick J O'Reilly
Lyric Theare Belfast
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Director: Rachel O’Riordan
Lyric Hammersmith
 

THE LITTLE FOXES

Director: Blanche McIntyre
Gate Theatre, Dublin

I THINK WE ARE ALONE

Director: Kathy Burke & Scott Graham
Frantic Assembly Tour

2019

BLOOD IN THE DIRT

Director: Caitríona McLaughlin
Landmark Productions

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
 
Director: Sean Kearns
The Mac, Belfast
 

MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET

Director: Gemma Bodinetz
Liverpool Everyman 
 
NEW MILLER Choreographer: Andrea Miller
Rambert
 
SHIRLEY VALENTINE
(Set and Lighting)

Director: Patrick J O'Reilly
Lyric Theare, Belfast/Millennium Forum

CITYSONG

Director: Caitríona McLaughlin
Abbey Theatre

LOST Choreographer: Ludovic Ondiviela
Ballet Ireland
 
REMOVED Director: Emma Jordan
Prime Cut Productions
 
LAST ORDERS AT THE DOCKSIDE Director: Graham McLaren
Abbey Theatre
 
THE GLASS MENAGERIE Director: Tom Cairns
Gate Theatre, Dublin
 
THE SNAPPER (Revival) Director: Róisín McBrinn
Gate Theatre, Dublin
 
CYPRUS AVENUE Director: Vicky Featherstone
Royal Court
 
POSTCARDS FROM THE LEDGE Director: Jimmy Fay
Landmark Productions Tour
 
 

2018

HAMLET

Director: Yaël Farber
Gate Theatre, Dublin

ALICE: THE MUSICAL

Director: Paul Boyd
Lyric Theatre, Belfast

BAH, HUMBUG!

Director: Frankie McCafferty
Lyric Theatre, Belfast

DOUBLE CROSS

Director: Jimmy Fay
Lyric Theatre, Belfast/Abbey Theatre

CYPRUS AVENUE

Director: Vicky Featherstone
Abbey Theatre/MAC Belfast/Public Theater NY

ON RAFTERY'S HILL

Director: Caitríona McLaughlin
Abbey Theatre

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

Director: Ronan Phelan
The Lir Academy, Dublin

THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS

Director: Sean Holmes
Lyric Theatre Hammersmith

THE SNAPPER

Director: Róisín McBrinn
Gate Theatre, Dublin

THE RETURN OF ULYSSES

Director: Patrick Mason
Opera Collective Ireland

AIDA

Director: Michael Barker-Caven
Irish National Opera

PORCELAIN

Director: Cathal Cleary
Abbey Theatre

DE PROFUNDIS

Director: Mark Rosenblatt
Classic Spring Theatre Company

LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN

Director: Kathy Burke 
Vaudeville Theatre

MARRIAGE OF FIGARO

Director: Patrick Mason
Irish National Opera

2017

POSTCARDS FROM THE LEDGE

Director: Jimmy Fay
Landmark Productions

THE CARETAKER Director: Christopher Haydon
Bristol Old Vic
 
KATIE ROCHE

Director: Caroline Byrne
Abbey Theatre

A SHORT HISTRY OF TRACTORS IN UKRAINIAN

Director: Mark Babych
Hull Truck

FAR AWAY

Director: Pat Kiernan
Corcadorca Theatre Company

JENUFA

Director: Katie Mitchell
Grange Park Opera

TRIBES

Director: Kate Hewitt
Crucible Studio, Sheffield

SINNERS

Director: Mick Gordon
Lyric Belfast

GISELLE

Choreographer: Ludovico Ondiviela
Ballet Ireland

NO MAN'S LAND

Choreographer: Liam Scarlett
Queensland Ballet

THE MISER

Director: Sean Foley
Theatre Royal Bath/Garrick Theatre

 

2016

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

Director: James Dacre
Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Touring Consortium

THE GAUL

Director: Mark Babych
Hull Truck

FLIGHT

Ballet Rambert
Lowry, Salford

HERE COMES THE NIGHT

Director: Jimmy Fay
Lyric Belfast

POWDER HER FACE

Director: Carlos Wagner
Teatro Arriaga Bilbao

OBSERVE THE SONS OF ULSTER MARCHING TOWARDS THE SOMME

Director: Jeremy Herrin
Headlong/ Abbey Theatre/ Glasgow Citizens/ Liverpool Co-Production

FALSTAFF

Director: David McVicar
Wiener Staatsoper

BREAKING DAD

Director: Jimmy Fay
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin

CYPRUS AVENUE

Director: Vicky Featherstone
Royal Court Theatre and Abbey Theatre Co-Pruduction

THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS

Director: Sean Holmes
Abbey Theatre Dublin and Tour

BIG MAGGIE Revival

Director: Garry Hynes
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin

 

2015

SHIBBOLETH (Set and Lighting Designer)

Director: Hamish Pirie
Peacock Stage, Abbey Theatre Dublin

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND THE BIG BAD WOLF (Set and Lighting Design)

Paul Bosco McEneaney
Lyric Belfast

MATCH BOX (Set and Lighting Design)

Joan Sheehy
Galway International Arts Festival

CHRISTMAS EVE CAN KILL YOU (Set and Lighting Design)

Dan Gordon
Lyric Belfast

THE HUDSUCKER PROXY

Simon Dormandy/Toby Sedgwick
Nuffield Theatre/Liverpool Everyman

THE GIRL WHO BELIEVED IN MAGIC (Show Design)

Created by Julie Feeney
Project Arts Dublin

MACBETH

Director: Jatinder Verma
Tara Arts

LORD OF THE FLIES

Director: Timothy Sheader
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and tour

LOST

Director: Ludovic Ondievla
Ballet Ireland

LA BOHEME/EUGENE ONEGIN

Director: Stephen Medcalf
Grange Park Opera

SAMSON ET DELILA

Director: Patrick Mason
Grange Park Opera

BLASTED

Director: Richard Wilson
Sheffield Theatres

THE WALWORTH FARCE

Director: Sean Foley
Olympia Theatre/Landmark Productions

BREAKING DAD (Revival)

Director: Jimmy Fay
Cork/Dublin/Landmark Productions

 

2014

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Director: Michael Barker-Caven
Gate Theatre, Dublin

BORSTAL BOY

Director: Connall Morrison
Gaeity Theatre, Dublin

OUR FEW AND EVIL DAYS

Director: Mark O’Rowe
Abbey Theatre, Dublin

SLEEPING BEAUTY

Director: Deborah Maguire
Lyric Theatre, Belfast

MISTLETOE & CRIME

Director: Dan Gordon
Lyric Theatre, Belfast

CASSANDRA

Choreographer: Ludovic Ondiviela
Royal Opera House, Linbury

TALE OF TWO CITIES

Director: James Dacre
Royal & Derngate

HEARTBREAK HOUSE

Director: Róisín McBrinn
Abbey Theatre

INTO THE WOODS

Director: Tom Creed
The Lir Academy, Dublin

FIREBIRD

Choreographer: George Williamson
English National Ballet, Barbican

NO MAN’S LAND

Choreographer: Liam Scarlett
English National Ballet, Barbican

BREAKING DAD

Director: Jimmy Fay
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin

AFTERPLAY

Director: Róisín McBrinn
Sheffield Crucible Studio

THE QUEEN OF SPADES

Director: Peter Relton (Revival)
Anthony McDonald (Original)
Grange Park Opera 2014

DON QUICHOTTE

Director: Charles Edwards
Grange Park Opera 2014

TWELFTH NIGHT

Director: Gemma Bodinetz
Liverpool Everyman Playhouse

THE EPIC ADVENTURES OF NHAMO THE MANYIKA WARRIOR AND HIS SEXY WIFE CHIPO

Director: Lucian Msamati
Tiata Fahodzi UK Tour

 

2013

RISEN PEOPLE

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BREAK (Set and Lighting Design)

Director: Veronica Coburn
HotForTheatre/Dublin Festival Fringe

THE EPIC ADVENTURES OF NHAMO

Director: Lucian Msamati

THE MANYIKA WARRIOR AND HIS SEXY WIFE CHIPO

Tiata Fahodzi/Tricycle Theatre

MARIA DE BUENOS AIRES

Director: Conor Hanratty
Cork Opera House

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

Director: Ethan McSweeny
Gate Theatre, Dublin

MIXED MARRIAGE

Director: Jimmy Fay
Lyric Theatre, Belfast

IL CAPPELLO DI PAGLIA DI FIRENZE/THERESE
LA NAVARRAISE/CHRISTINA, REGINA DI SVEZIA

Wexford Festival Opera

HANSEL AND GRETEL

Choreographer: Liam Scarlett
Royal Opera House, Linbury

THE MISANTHROPE

Director: Gemma Bodinetz
Liverpool Playhouse Theatre/ETT

DRUM BELLY

Director: Sean Holmes
Abbey Theatre, Dublin

EUGENE ONEGIN

Director: Stephen Medcalf
Grange Park Opera 2013
(Nevill Holt 2012)

CARMELITES

Director: John Doyle
Grange Park Opera 2013

 

previous theATRE

ROMEO & JULIET

Director: Pat Kiernan
Cork Opera House/Corcadorca Theatre Company

CINDERELLA THE MIDNIGHT PRINCESS

Director: Rachel Kavanaugh
Rose Theatre Kingston

AIDA

Director: Vivian Coates
Lyric Opera at The Gaiety Theatre Dublin

THE LAST SUMMER

Director: Toby Frow
Gate Theatre, Dublin

A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE

Director: Patrick Mason
Gate Theatre, Dublin

BEFORE IT RAINS

Director: Roisin McBrinn
Bristol Old Vic

LA BOHÉME

Director: Stephen Langridge
Angers Nantes Opera  / Nationale Reisopera

DA

Director: Toby Frow
Gate Theatre, Dublin

BIG MAGGIE

Director: Garry Hynes
Druid Theatre tour

SCHEHERAZADE & 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS

Director: Morgann Runacre-Temple
Ballet Ireland tour

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

Director: Gemma Bodinetz
Liverpool Everyman Playhouse

B FOR BABY

Director: Mikel Murfi
Abbey Theatre Dublin and tour

THE WINTER’S TALE (Set and Lighting Design)

Director: Pat Kiernan
Cork Opera House/ Corcadorca Theatre Company co-production

MOLLY SWEENEY (Set and Lighting Design)

Director: Patrick Mason
Gate Theatre, Dublin

CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS

Director: Jimmy Fay
Abbey Theatre Dublin

REQUEST PROGRAMME (Set and Lighting Design)

Director: Pat Kiernan
Corcadorca Theatre Company

THE STOCK DA’WA

Director: Kathy Burke
Hampstead Theatre, Michael Frayn Space

BETWEEN FOXROCK AND A HARD PLACE

Director: Jimmy Fay
Landmark Productions

NO ROMANCE (Set and Lighting Design)

Director: Wayne Jordan
Peacock, Abbey Theatre

PENELOPE

Director: Mikel Murfi
Druid Theatre tour

GOD OF CARNAGE

Director: Alan Stanford
Gate Theatre, Dublin

YERMA

Director: Róisín McBrinn
West Yorkshire Playhouse

NOVECENTO

Director: Róisín McBrinn
Donmar Warehouse season at Trafalgar Studios

 

opera and dance

IDOMENEO

Director: Charles Edwards
Grange Park Opera (2012)

THE QUEEN OF SPADES

Director: Antony McDonald
Grange Park Opera (2012)

UNE EDUCATION MANQÉE/ LA CAMBIALE DI MATRIMONIO

Director: Roberto Recchia
Wexford Festival Opera

MARIA PADILLA

Director: Marco Gandini
Wexford Festival Opera

 

theatre

BOSS GRADY’S BOYS (Set and Lighting Design)

Director: Jim Culleton
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin

UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL

Director: Joshua Edelman
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, Landmark Productions

THE CRUCIBLE

Director: Timothy Sheader
Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park