Director
Grace Morgan
Norma, Absolute Scenes , The Bartered BrideBiography
Grace Morgan is a theatre and opera maker, working across Ireland and internationally, and is a member of the Irish National Opera Studio 2025/26. She was assistant director in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Strauss’s Fledermaus, Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, and Dvořák’s Rusalka for INO. Grace is also co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of the theatre company tasteinyourmouth. Recent directing credits include Music, Magic and Mischief (Irish National Opera), The 24hr Plays (Abbey Theatre), Hysterically Shopping! with Glasshouse Ensemble (Dublin Theatre Festival 2024), Theatre for One (Landmark/Octopus Theatricals, Cork Midsummer Festival), and Puccini’s Suor Angelica (Wexford Festival Opera 2023). Her award-winning You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) toured internationally – from Edinburgh Fringe to Gothenburg and Dublin Fringe – earning a Best Production nomination and the First Fortnight Award. Other projects include Narcissus (Dublin Fringe, The Chiswick Playhouse), The Sudden (Pan Pan, Dublin Dance Festival), and Drop (Druid Debuts, Galway International Arts Festival). Formerly Associate Artistic Director at Pan Pan Theatre, Grace has collaborated with companies such as Dead Centre and OneTwoOneTwo, touring to Lincoln Center, Centquatre-Paris, FFT Düsseldorf, NYU Skirball, and BAM New York. In Autumn 2026, Grace will be revival director Smetana’s The Bartered Bride for INO.
May 2026