CONOR HANRATTY

Conor trained at UCLA, the National Theatre Directors’ Course and Rough Magic’s SEEDS programme. For his company Ulysses Opera Theatre, he directed FLATPACK and HARP | A River Cantata (Dublin Fringe Festival), and most recently The Stalls, the third of a trilogy of new operas commissioned for Cork Opera House and Cork Midsummer Festival 2019. Two of the trilogy’s three parts were nominated for Best Opera Production at the Irish Times Theatre Awards. As associate director he has remounted Tomer Zvulun’s production of Silent Night for Austin Opera and Utah Opera. Due to the restrictions necessitated by Covid-19, productions of Eugene Onegin (Palm Beach Opera) Thais (Utah Opera) and Paper Boat (Music For Galway/Galway 2020/ INO) have all been cancelled or postponed.

Recent theatre productions include POSTSCRIPT (UK tour Spring 2020), To Hell in a Handbag and a season as resident director for Once at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. Other recent projects include All's Well that Ends Well at the Lir, Carmen for Opera San Antonio, Long Story Short - The Belfast Opera at Carlisle Memorial Church, Trouble in Tahiti (Glimmerglass Festival) and Maria de Buenos Aires (Cork Opera House).

Conor spent the 2018-19 season as the Jerry and Dulcy Rosenberg Director in Residence at the Atlanta Opera. Conor has translated and directed several Greek tragedies (including Medea, The Bacchae and The Trojan Women) and made a short film featuring newly-discovered fragments of poetry by Sappho. He has done extensive translation work for Cork Opera House’s opera concert series, creating texts and surtitles for nearly 20 core-repertoire operas. He has extensive experience as a script-editor and dramaturg, and has had his own play Ground Meat published by Fishamble. He also writes and presents a popular podcast about Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

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