Choreographer
Emily Terndrup
The Cunning Little VixenBiography
Emily Terndrup is a choreographer, performer, and director working across theatre, dance, and film. This is her first production with Irish National Opera. Her debut show OFFSPRING (A Modern Frankenstein) premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2025, winning Best Performer, Best Design, and the Radical Spirit of the Fringe Award. Emily’s past collaborations include more than a decade as a performer and rehearsal director with immersive theatre company Punchdrunk in their productions The Burnt City (London) and Sleep No More (New York and Shanghai). Selected credits include: Associate Director on Life and Trust; Choreographer on Gina Moxley's I Fall Down; Movement Director on Des Kennedy’s Making History, Sophie Motley’s The Summer I Robbed a Bank, Emma Jordan’s The Glass Menagerie, Josh Seymour’s Suddenly Last Summer, as well as Yael Farber’s The Tragedy of Macbeth and My Brilliant Friend (nominated for 'Best Choreography and Stage Movement' at the Gríman Awards). Her other choreographic projects have been presented at the Cork Midsummer Festival, The Knockdown Center, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theater, and The Packing House.
Jan 2026