Róisín McBrinn
Theatre Director
Recipient of the Quercus Award 2010
Forthcoming: YELLOW MOON (Rustaveli Theater of Georgia)
Directing credits include: SIXTY-SIX BOOKS (Bush Theatre); YERMA (West Yorkshire Playhouse); NOVECENTO (Donmar season at Trafalgar Studios); PERVE, NO ESCAPE (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); CITYSCAPE: STATION and PATROLOPHOBIA (Sherman Cymru); FUGITIVE KIND (Reading, Donmar Warehouse); THE FAIRER SEX (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); a New Writing Project for Angle Theatre at Hackney Empire; New Connections Director at the National Theatre; THE WAKE (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art); INPARENTHESIS, (one of the winners of THE METAMORPHOSIS project, Churchill Theatre/ ATG); CRESTFALL (Theatre 503, with Niamh Cusack and Orla Fitzgerald); ROBERTO ZUCCO (LAMDA); SLEEPING BEAUTY (Helix Theatre, Dublin); THE FIELD (Tricycle); TEJAS VERDES (b*spoke at Project Dublin); WHEREABOUTS (Fishamble Theatre Co); A THOUSAND YARDS (Southwark); REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DALÍ MAKE ME HOT and GOMPERS (Arcola); GIANTS HAVE US IN THEIR BOOKS (International Studio Dublin, Nominated Best Production, Dublin Fringe Festival); SMALLER (resident director for Kathy Burke, UK tour/West End). Credits as Staff Director include SHOOT THE CROW (for Robert Delamere, Sonia Friedman/West End); FUDDY MEERS (for Angus Jackson, Scamp /Arts Theatre); THE QUARE FELLOW (for Kathy Burke, OSC tour). She was previously Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse and won the Young Vic/Jerwood Young Director’s Award in 2004.