Eoghan Carrick – Assistant Director

Eoghan is a freelance director, lighting designer and dramaturg. In 2015, he was made an Associate Director with Corn Exchange Theatre Company. In the coming months, he will be working with Landmark and Wide Open Opera on The Second Violinist, his production of This Lime Tree Bower will continue its Irish tour to the Viking Theatre and Owen Wingrave will tour nationally.

Recent directing credits includes: Spliced (Seen and Heard, 2017), Infinity (Seen and Heard, 2017), The Boyz of Harcourt Street (Smock Alley Theatre, 2016), This Lime Tree Bower (Project Arts Centre, 2016),  The Matador (Bewleys Café Theatre at Powerscourt, 2015), Panned (Theatre Upstairs, 2015), The Ugly One (The Lir, 2014). 

Credits as a lighting designer include George Bush and Children (Project Arts Centre, 2017), Panned, The Man in Two Pieces, Hollow Ground (Theatre Upstairs, 2015), i(Theatre Upstairs and international tour 2014/15) and Stella Full of Storms (Theatre Upstairs and Irish tour, 2014/15).

As a dramaturg, Eoghan worked on the Paris Opera Academy production of Owen Wingrave directed by Tom Creed and he works with the Abbey Theatre’s New Work Department in Ireland.

As an assistant director, he has worked with Corn Exchange Theatre Company on a number of productions since 2012, with Hamish Pirie at the Abbey Theatre on Shibboleth (Peacock Theatre, 2015) and with Tom Creed on a number of operas, most recently Acis and Galatea (Wexford Opera House and Irish Tour, 2017).

 Eoghan has a B.A. International in Drama and English from UCD and a first-class honours MFA in Theatre Directing from The Lir Academy at Trinity College Dublin.