Choreographer

Muirne Bloomer

Least Like The Other

Biography

Muirne Bloomer is from Dublin. She has had an extensive performance career in ballet, contemporary and dance theatre both at home and abroad, working with Dublin City Ballet, Vienna Ballet Theatre, Rubato Ballet, Dance Theatre of Ireland, Holland Show Ballet, Irish Modern Dance Theatre and CoisCéim Dance Theatre. Muirne choreographed INO’s productions of Rossini’s Le Cenerentola (nominated for Best Production Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2020), Brian Irvine's and Netia Jones’s Least Like The Other, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, and most recently Bizet's Carmen. Other choreographic work includes Hamlet (St Anne’s Warehouse NYC), Look Back in Anger, The Great Gatsby, Private Lives, Little Women, Arcadia and Dancing at Lughnasa (Gate Theatre); Donegal, You Never Can Tell, She Stoops to Conquer, A Doll’s House, Cavalcaders, Drama at Inis and The Tempest (Abbey Theatre); Dandy Dolls and Gulliver’s Travels (Peacock Theatre); Verdi’s Rigoletto(Opera Theatre Company); Egg (Lincoln Centre, New York); Nivelli’s War (New Victory Theater, New York); The World Festival of Families (Croke Park, 2018) and Laochra (GAA 1916 Commemoration, Croke Park. Muirne is currently Performance Director of St Patricks Festival Community Arts and Artistic Coordinator of Creative Places Darndale.

May 2022