Lighting Designer

Sinéad McKenna

Fledermaus

Biography

Sinéad McKenna is an internationally renowned designer working across theatre, opera, dance and film. She has won two Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards for Best Lighting Design and a Drama Desk nomination for Best

Lighting Design for a Musical. Her previous designs for Irish National Opera include Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte, Donezetti’s Maria Stuarda, Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffman, Vivaldi’s Griselda and Puccini’s La Bohème. Her many credits include: The Fair Maid of the West (RSC); The President (Landmark/ Sydney Theatre Company); Walking with Ghosts (Broadway/West End/Edinburgh/Ireland/Landmark); Emma, Somewhere Out There You, Faith Healer, Drama at Inish, The Unmanageable Sisters, Othello, Aristocrats, The Plough and the Stars, The Burial at Thebes (Abbey Theatre); Reunion, Bedbound, Straight to Video, The Approach (Set/Lighting), Asking for It, Howie the Rookie, Greener, October, The Last Days of the Celtic Tiger and Blackbird (Landmark); Ghosts (Landmark/ Abbey Theatre); Parade (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris); Teenage Dick (Donmar Warehouse); Fun Home, PIAF, The Children, Beginning, Assassins, The Beckett/ Pinter/Friel Festival, Private Lives, Juno and the Paycock, A Month in the Country (Gate Theatre); Heaven (Fishamble/NYC); Sentient, Dēmos (Liz Roche Company); Once Upon a Bridge (Set/Lighting), Epiphany, Furniture (Druid Theatre); Angela’s Ashes The Musical (Bord Gáis Theatre/Tour); Watt (Ireland/International tour); Famished Castle, Travesties, The Importance of Being Earnest, Improbable Frequency, The Parker Project, Life is a Dream and Attempts on Her Life (Rough Magic Theatre Company). Sinéad has designed for many other major Irish companies including Fishamble, CoisCéim, Gúna Nua, Decadent, Gare Saint Lazare, Corn Exchange, Thisispopbaby, Siren, Second Age, Performance Corporation and Semper Fi.

February 2024