Rachel O’Riordan

Theatre includes: The Weir, Bird (& Royal Exchange), The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe, A Doll’s House, Iphigenia in Splott (& National), Romeo & Juliet (& Òran Mór), Arabian Nights (Sherman); Macbeth (& Tron), The Seafarer (& Lyric, Belfast), The Odd Couple – Female Version, Moonlight & Magnolias, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Twelfth Night (Perth); Unfaithful (Traverse); The Absence of Women (Tricycle); Hurricane (West End/Off-Broadway); Everything Is Illuminated (Hampstead); Miss Julie, Animal Farm (Peter Hall Company/Theatre Royal, Bath); Absolution (Guna Nua/First Irish Festival NY); Much Ado About Nothing, The Glass Menagerie, Merry Christmas Betty Ford (Lyric, Belfast); A Christmas Carol, Gates of Gold, Grimm Tales (Library, Manchester); Over the Bridge (Green Shoot/Waterfront Hall, Belfast); Elizabeth – Almost By Chance A Woman (Kabosh/Project); Protestants (Soho); Arguments for Terrorism, Cold Turkey at Nana’s (Òran Mór).

Opera includes: NI5 (Northern Ireland Opera/MAC, Belfast).

Awards include: Critic’s Award for Theatre in Scotland for Best Director (The Seafarer); First Irish Theatre Festival Award for Best Director (Absolution).

Rachel was formerly Artistic Director at Perth Theatre. Rachel is the Artistic Director of the Sherman Theatre.