Director

Eoghan Carrick

The First Child

Biography

Eoghan Carrick is a theatre and opera maker working in Ireland and internationally. He works on new and established texts with a focus on innovative interpretations and interdisciplinary collaboration. He is an associate artist with Once Off Productions. Previous associate and assisting credits for opera include Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s The First Child (Landmark Productions/Irish National Opera), Donnacha Dennehy’s The Hunger (Abbey Theatre), Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle (Irish National Opera), Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s The Second Violinist (Landmark Productions/Irish National Opera); Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Wolf-Ferrari’s Susanna’s Secret and Poulenc’s The Human Voice (Opera Theatre Company); and Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Royal Irish Academy of Music). He was dramaturg on Opéra national de Paris Académie/Opera Collective Ireland’s production of Britten’s Owen Wingrave directed by Tom Creed. Recent directing credits include: Rescue Annie (Dublin Fringe Festival, 2021), 14 voices from the Bloody Field (Abbey Theatre, 2020), Bodies of Water (Dublin Fringe Festival, 2019; DFF Best Design Nomination), Midsummer (Project Arts Centre, 2019), Theatre For One (Cork Midsummer Festival, 2019; Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards Best Ensemble nomination), INFINITY (Dublin Fringe Festival, 2018; First Fortnight Award, DFF Best Design Award, DFF Best Performer Nomination), Nora (Dublin Theatre Festival, 2017).

May 2022