Director

Tom Creed

Trade / Mary Motorhead

Biography

Tom has directed Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, Vivaldi’s Griselda and Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann for Irish National Opera, as well as Jennifer Walshe’s Libris Solar as part of 20 Shots of Opera. A specialist in developing and directing new opera, he directed the world premiere of Emma O’Halloran’s Trade and Mary Motorhead (Prototype Festival, New York, and LA Opera), and world premieres of Michael Gallen’s Elsewhere (Abbey Theatre and Irish tour), Donnacha Dennehy’s The Hunger (Abbey Theatre and BAM, New York), Annelies van Parys’s Private View (winner of the inaugural FEDORA Opera Prize), and Jürgen Simpson’s air india [redacted] (Turning Point Ensemble, Vancouver).

Other opera productions include Handel’s Giulio Cesare (Blackwater Valley Opera Festival), Britten’s Owen Wingrave (Opéra National de Paris, Opera Collective Ireland), Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Wolf-Ferrari’s Susanna’s Secret and Poulenc’s The Human Voice (Opera Theatre Company), Stravinsky’s Mavra and Walton’s The Bear (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Puccini’s Suor Angelica, and Stravinsky’s Mavra and Renard (Royal Irish Academy of Music). He participated in the Opera Creation Workshop at the 2020 Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Theatre productions include The President (Gate Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company), The Quare Fellow (Abbey Theatre), Conversations After Sex (Thisispopbaby at Dublin Theatre Festival, Irish Arts Centre, New York, and Irish tour).

He was previously Festival Director of Cork Midsummer Festival, Theatre and Dance Curator of Kilkenny Arts Festival, and Associate Director of Rough Magic. He is a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of Culture Ireland, chair of GAZE Film Festival, and a board member of The Performing Arts Forum.

July 2024