Chris Moran

Experience

Lir Academy Training

• MFA in Theatre Directing - 2019

Productions

• • Production
  • Role
  • Director
• • Homos, or Everyone in America
  • Director

Other Experience

Chris Moran is a theatre director and writer from Co. Wicklow.

His work explores Irish national identity, cultural memory and queer history, often using archival research as a starting point.

He was a 2022-3 TRANSFORM Associate Artist at the Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray. He has been assistant or associate director to many of Ireland’s leading theatre companies including the Gate (Piaf), ANU (Faultline), and The Abbey/THISISPOPBABY (If These Wigs Could Talk by Panti Bliss/Haunted by Tara Flynn). Chris’s writing has been supported by the Arts Council, Wicklow Arts Office, and international residencies.

Chris studied at the University of Galway and the Lir Academy in Dublin. He has recently attended artist development programs with Dublin Theatre Festival (NEXT STAGE), the European Theatre Academy, the European Network of Opera Academies, the Bayreuth Opera Festival, and TalentLAB at the Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg.

Chris supports new writers as a dramaturg. In 2023 he directed a Druid Debut at the Galway International Arts Festival.

Chris also creates theatre-in-education plays for schools in Europe and Ireland, most recently The Song Collector, an introduction to folk song collecting for audiences 6+, which appeared at Galway Theatre Festival.

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