Director

Chris Kelly

Trade / Mary Motorhead

Biography

Chris is a director based in Dublin, working in opera and theatre. He holds a BMus from TU Dublin and a MA in Theatre Practice from The Gaiety School of Acting and UCD. Previous directing credits include Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, Viardot's Cendrillon (Irish premiere), Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, all with North Dublin Opera.   

For Irish National Opera, he has been assistant director for Rossini's William Tell, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, Massenet's Werther and Puccini's La bohème. For Opera Collective Ireland, he was assistant director for Britten's Owen Wingrave, Raymond Deane's Vagabones, Handel's Semele and Jonathan Dove's Flight. Theatre credits include Suicide Tuesday (Hugh Hick) with Little Shadow Theatre Company, I Am (GSA), Unicorns Are Real (Jellybelly), and his own adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (Skerries Soundwaves Festival). He also wrote and co-directed Twenty Minutes From Nowhere with Crave Productions and Bewley’s Cafe Theatre, which has been performed in venues nationwide.