Annabelle Comyn
Artistic director
Annabelle has just directed The Talk of The Town by Emma Donoghue, shortlisted for The Booker Prize for her best-selling novel ROOM. The play is a commission based on the incredible life and writings of Maeve Brennan and is a co-production between her theatre company Hatch, Landmark Productions and Dublin Theatre Festival. The Talk Of The Town will be presented as
part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2012. Her most recent work includes The House by Tom Murphy and GB Shaw’s Pygmalion both for The Abbey Theatre. Other work for The Abbey includes A Number by Caryl Churchill and Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall. Annabelle is Artistic Director of HATCH Theatre Company for which she has directed Love and Money by Dennis Kelly; Further Than The Furthest Thing by Zinnie Harris; Cruel and Tender by Martin Crimp; Pyrenees by David Greig; Blood by Lars Norén and The Country by Martin Crimp all in association with Project Arts Centre. Freelance work includes The Sit by Gavin Kostick (Bewley’s Theatre – Dublin Fringe Festival Best Male Performance nomination and Bewley’s Cafe Little Gem Award nomination); Dublin Noir; My Brother is Disappearing and Eclipsed 1 and 11 for The Irish Times Award winning Whereabouts (Fishamble). She has also directed Churchill x 3 (Three More Sleepless Nights; Ice Cream and Hot Fudge); Terrorism; Loveplay; The Strip; The Possibilities and Mad Forest for the Samuel Beckett Centre, Top Girls for NYU Tisch and Twelfth Night for The Granary Theatre, Cork. For the Royal Court Theatre she directed Good-bye Roy (Exposure); B22 (Young Writers’ Festival); Rough Road to Survival (Class) and Under the Skin (in association with London Weekend Television and the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital). Other work in London includes The Lament for Arthur Cleary (Brockley Jack, London) and The Rock Station (Finborough, London). In 2003 she directed Ashes and Sand by Judy Upton (Nukutheater, Tallinn, Estonia),
Annabelle is Director in Residence at Project Arts Centre, a scheme awarded by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council. She is both a Project Catalyst as part of a Project Arts Centre initiative and a member of Project Arts Centre. She is also on the Advisory Board of the Irish Centre of UNESCO’s organisation of International Theatre Institutes. Agent:
The Lisa Richards Agency
http://www.lisarichards.ie/directors/annabelle-comyn-director
