The Brightening Air

Theatre includes: Dry Dublin (The Outhouse, Dublin); Swansong (Paulstown Community Hall, Kilkenny); Clearance, Magpie (Smock Alley Theatre Dublin); Oliver! (The National Concert Hall, Dublin). Television includes: The Hardacres. Film includes: Portaloo, Nana Rocks, A Death in the Family, Slab.

Theatre includes: The Mousetrap (West End); Tea Leaves (Courtyard Theatre); No Particular Order (Southwark Playhouse); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Rose Theatre, Kingston). Television includes: Doc Martin, Cheaters. Film includes: 7 to 10. Training includes: The Oxford School of Drama.

Theatre includes: Hamlet (West End); Portia Coughlan, The Great Hunger, Anna Karenina (Abbey Theatre); To the Lighthouse (Everyman, Cork); The Cherry Orchard (Druid); Afterplay, Juno and the Paycock (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Hecuba, Macbeth, Penelopiad (RSC); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Young Vic); The Alice Trilogy (Royal Court); The Playboy Of The Western World, Summerfolk, The Merchant Of Venice (National Theatre). Television includes: Mayfair Witches II, Small Town, Big Story, The Vanishing Triangle, Balor Hall, Hidden Assets, Come Home. Film includes: Earmark, Whale Fall, That They May Face the Rising Sun, Mandrake, Dead Happy, My Mother’s Shoes, Rosie, Citizen Lane, Stella Days.

Theatre includes: Juno and the Paycock (West End); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Dorset Theatre Festival, Vermont). Training includes: The Lír Academy.

Theatre includes: The Crucible; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (West End); The Night Alive (Donmar/Atlantic Theater, New York); A Whistle in the Dark (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); The Weir (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); The Walworth Farce (3Olympia Theatre, Dublin). Television includes: Peaky Blinders, Bad Sisters, Frank of Ireland, Top Boy, The Mandalorian. Film includes: Hellboy, Snow White And The Huntsman, Phantom Thread, Logan Lucky, Mother!.

Theatre includes: Juno and the Paycock (West End); Asking For It, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Circle of Friends (Gaiety Theatre, Dublin); The Long Christmas Dinner (Abbey Theatre); The Spin (Backstage Theatre, Longford).
Television includes: Darklands, Faithless, Sherlock and Daughter. Film includes: Barber. Training includes: Gaiety School of Acting, University of Limerick – Voice and Dance.

Theatre includes: A Doll’s House (UK/Ireland tour); Eigengrau (Greenwich Theatre); Our Brothers in Cloth (Cockpit Theatre); Thomas Kent (The Everyman, Cork); The True Story of Hansel and Gretel (Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin/Dublin Theatre Festival); The School for Wives (The New Theatre, Dublin); Uncle Vanya (Boris Shchukin Theatre, Moscow). Television includes: Dublin Narcos.

Theatre includes: Ages Of The Moon (Abbey Theatre/Atlantic Theater, New York); Translations (Irish Rep, New York); Endgame, The Weir (Gate Theatre, Dublin); The Playboy of the Western World, Waiting For Godot (Druid); The Empress of India (Druid/Abbey Theatre); Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme (Abbey Theatre); Simpatico (Royal Court); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (National Theatre); A Whistle in the Dark — Irish Times Theatre Award/Time Out London Award for Best Actor (Abbey Theatre/Druid/Royal Court). Television includes: Shetland, The Fall, New Tricks, Love/Hate, Pure Mule, Minder, Republic of Doyle.
Film includes: That They May Face the Rising Sun, Michael Collins, Braveheart, Dead Bodies, Trojan Eddie.

Theatre includes: The Merchant of Venice 1936 (West End/RSC); The Confessions (European tour); Antony and Cleopatra (National Theatre); Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus (RSC); The Darkest Part of the Night (Kiln); All’s Well That Ends Well, Cancelling Socrates (Jermyn Street). Television includes: Call the Midwife, Father Brown. Film includes: Ceres, Nell and Pauline, Magpie.

Theatre includes: Under the Blue Sky (West End); Of Mice and Men (Broadway); Constellations (Donmar); The Playboy of the Western World (Druid). Television includes: Black Mirror, The Big Door Prize, Get Shorty, Family Tree, Moone Boy, Girls, The Crimson Petal & the White, FM, The IT Crowd, Roman’s Empire. Film includes: Three Bags Full, Slumberland, The Starling, How to Build a Girl, Juliet Naked, The Incredible Jessica James, God Particle, Mascots, Loving Vincent, Love After Love, Mrs Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, The Programme, St Vincent, Calvary, Cuban Fury, Epic, Friends With Kids, Bridesmaids, Dinner for Schmucks, Gulliver’s Travels, The Boat That Rocked, The Festival.

Theatre includes: The Hairy Ape (The Old Vic); Machinal (The Old Vic/Theatre Royal Bath); Oleanna (West End/Theatre Royal Bath); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, All’s Well That Ends Well, Richard III, King John (RSC); Romeo and Juliet (National Theatre); The Wolves (Stratford East); The Whale (Theatre Royal Bath); Uncle Vanya — Winner of Best Female Performance in the English Language Award, Wales Theatre Awards 2018 (Theatr Clwyd/Sheffield Theatres); Bird (Royal Exchange Manchester); The Second Maiden’s Tragedy (Shakespeare’s Globe). Television includes: Chernobyl, The Red King, Steeltown Murders, Wild Bill. Film includes: Pillion, A Violent Man.

Theatre includes: The Duchess (of Malfi) (Trafalgar Studios); So Here We Are, Stiletto Beach (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch); Machinal (Orange Tree). Training includes: LAMDA.

Most recently for The Old Vic, Conor wrote and directed the Tony and Olivier Award-winning premiere of the musical, Girl from the North Country (also West End and Broadway). Theatre includes: Uncle Vanya — South Bank Sky Arts Theatre Award (West End/BBC); Port Authority (Gate Theatre, Dublin/West End); The Weir — Olivier Award for Best New Play (Royal Court/West End/Broadway); The Seafarer (National Theatre/Broadway); Shining City (Royal Court/Broadway); The Night Alive — New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play (Donmar/Atlantic Theater, New York); Cold War (Almeida); The Nest (Lyric Belfast/Young Vic); Dance of Death (Donmar/BBC Radio).

Theatre includes: Oedipus, Sweet Bird of Youth, Dublin Carol (The Old Vic); Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/US tour); Waiting for Godot, Uncle Vanya — Sky Arts Award, Hello Dolly!, Rosmersholm (West End); The Importance of Being Earnest, Paradise, Translations, Wonder.land (National Theatre); War Horse – Tony and Obie Awards (National Theatre/UK tour); Barber Shop Chronicles (National Theatre/Roundhouse/International tour); Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Barbican/European tour); Hansel and Gretel (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Donmar). Opera includes: Benvenuto Cellini (West End); Rigoletto – Sky Arts Award (Opera North, Leeds); Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (Metropolitan Opera, New York).

Theatre includes: Beneatha’s Place (Young Vic); Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Dancing at Lughnasa (National Theatre/Sheffield Theatres); Paradise (National Theatre); The Boy in the Dress (RSC); The Bodyguard, Girl From the North Country (UK tour/international tour); Oklahoma (Chichester); Sweet Charity (Donmar); Light in the Piazza (Royal Festival Hall); Into The Woods (Theatre Royal, Bath); Newsies (Troubadour, Wembley). Mark has designed for English National Opera, The Royal Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Glyndebourne, English National Ballet, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, The Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Northern Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Rambert. Other work for performance includes: Kate Bush Live: Before The Dawn.

Theatre as Movement Director includes: The Divide (The Old Vic); No’s Knife (The Old Vic/Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/West End/Broadway/Australia/US tours); Waiting for Godot (West End); Hamlet (Young Vic); The Light in the Piazza (Southbank Centre/LA Music Center/Lyric Opera of Chicago); Miss Littlewood (RSC); Sleeping Beauty (Theatr Clwyd); Ugly Lies The Bone (National Theatre); The Effect (Sheffield Theatres). Theatre as Choreographer includes: Spend, Spend, Spend (Royal Exchange Manchester); 101 Dalmatians (UK tour); Oliver! (Leeds Playhouse); Billy Elliot (Leicester Curve); The Last Ship (Northern Stage). Theatre as Intimacy Director includes: Groundhog Day (The Old Vic); The Fear of 13 (Donmar).

Theatre includes: To Kill A Mockingbird, Juno and the Paycock, The Duchess (West End); Anything Goes, A Strange Loop, Kiss Me Kate (Barbican); Dealing With Clair (Orange Tree); The Glass Piano, Youth Without God (Coronet Print Room); Valued Friends (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Macbeth (Chichester); War Horse, Les Misérables, Matilda The Musical (Australia). Television includes: Tumbledown, Heading Home.

Theatre includes: Oedipus, The Real Thing, The Constituent, Machinal, Just For One Day, Pygmalion, Groundhog Day, Sylvia, Eureka Day, Camp Siegfried, Lungs, A Very Expensive Poison, Present Laughter, The American Clock, A Monster Calls, Girl from the North Country, The Divide, A Christmas Carol, Woyzeck, ‘Art’, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional (The Old Vic); When Winston Went to War with the Wireless (Donmar); What’s New Pussycat? (Birmingham Rep); Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World (UK tour); The Gods Weep, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing (RSC). Charlie is Consultant Voice Coach for Matilda The Musical (Resident 2010–14) and Resident Voice Coach for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2013–17.

Theatre includes: The Tempest, Cyrano de Bergerac, Barcelona, The Hills of California, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical (West End); Alterations, The Grapes of Wrath, The Effect, The Father and the Assassin (National Theatre); Macbeth (Wessex Grove); King Lear, Portia Coughlan (Almeida); Private Lives, Sweat (Donmar); Guys and Dolls (The Bridge); Jesus Christ Superstar, Peter Pan (Regent’s Park). Opera includes: Rigoletto (Welsh National Opera). Television includes: Emmerdale, Coronation Street (ITV); Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures); Eastenders (BBC). Film includes: My Policeman (Amazon); Death of England (Sky Arts); Romeo and Juliet (Sky Arts/PBS).

Theatre as Associate Director includes: Death of England: The Plays (Soho Place); Flowering Cherry (Finborough). Theatre as Playwright and Director includes: Love Steps (Omnibus/Talawa). Theatre as Director includes: 4 Walls (Derby Theatre); All Roads (London Tour); On The Ropes (Park Theatre); Seeds (UK Tour); Typical (Soho Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe); Cuttin’ It (Royal Court UK Schools Tour); Footprints on the Moon (Finborough). Film as Assistant to the Director includes: Chevalier (Searchlight). Film as Director includes: Typical (Soho Theatre On Demand). Audio Drama includes: Faith, Hope and Glory, Precious Little Thing (BBC Radio 4); Middlemarch Monologues (BBC Radio 3).

Theatre includes: Oedipus (The Old Vic); Waiting for Godot (West End); The Tragedy of Richard III (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Eugene Onegin, Tosca, La Traviata, Into the Woods — Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best Production (N.I. Opera, Belfast); Under the Kundè Tree (Southwark Playhouse); Translations (National Theatre); Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act — JMK Award, Yellowman (Orange Tree); This Beautiful Future (Jermyn Street Theatre); Peter Pan (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Into the Woods (His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth). Television includes: Game of Thrones. Film includes: In the Earth, Dungarees, Love. Niall was awarded the Max Rayne Design Bursary at the National Theatre in 2018.

Theatre includes: Bagdad Cafe, A Number, The 47th, SYLVIA (The Old Vic); The Tempest, Opening Night, The Enfield Haunting, The Time Traveller’s Wife, The Seagull, Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical, Betrayal, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, Moonlight, Night School, Homecoming, Big: The Musical, Lady Windermere’s Fan (West End); The Seagull, A Strange Loop (Barbican); The Creakers (Theatre Royal Plymouth/Southbank Centre); Suor Angelica (ENO); The Promise, House Party (Chichester), Richard III, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (The Rose, Kingston); Romeo and Juliet (Regent’s Park Open Air); Wuthering Heights (Bristol Old Vic/UK tour); Richard III, The Spoils, Buried Child (Trafalgar Studios); Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Leicester Curve/UK tour).

Theatre includes: The Little Big Things, Moulin Rouge! (West End); The Lightning Thief (The Other Palace); A Face in the Crowd (Young Vic); Love’s Labours Lost, The Box Of Delights, Cymbeline; Henry VI: Rebellion, Wars of the Roses (RSC); Before After (Southwark Playhouse); When This is Over (The Yard); Thrill Me (Jermyn Street); Waitress, Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK Tour). After completing a degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southampton, Ben trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.