Orla O’Loughlin

Orla is currently Vice Principal and Director of Drama at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, ranked the number one conservatoire in the UK and sixth in the world for performing arts training and research.

She is previous Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre where directing credits included the award winning productions: Mouthpiece (Traverse Theatre/Soho Theatre/ Melbourne and Auckland International Arts Festivals), What Girls Are Made Of (Traverse Theatre, Tramway, Tron, Soho, Adelaide, Sao Paulo and Spoleto International Theatre Festivals), Swallow (Traverse); Ciara (Traverse, Tron); Spoiling (Traverse, Theatre Royal Stratford East); Meet Me at Dawn (Edinburgh International Festival), Locker Room Talk (Abbey Theatre, Latitude Festival, BBC Radio, 4, Scottish Parliament, Traverse).

Other directing includes: How Much Is Your Iron? (Young Vic); The Hound of the Baskervilles (West Yorkshire Playhouse/UK Tour/West End); Kebab (Dublin International Theatre Festival/Royal Court); For Once (Hampstead Theatre); The Fire Raisers (BAC); Black Comedy, Blithe Spirit, Relatively Speaking (Watermill Theatre); Small Talk: Big Picture (BBC World Service/Royal Court/ICA), Women Talking (Edinburgh International Book Festival, Toronto Festival of Authors), A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity and Clean (Oran Mor and 59E59, New York).

Orla is a former Artistic Director of Pentabus Theatre, Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre and Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse where she was awarded the Carlton Bursary.

Her work has won a variety of awards including The James Menzies Kitchin Directors Award, Herald Angels, Fringe Firsts, Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland, The Stage Awards and Writers Guild of Great Britain Awards.

Orla was listed in the Observer as one of the top fifty Cultural Leaders in the UK and in The List Hot 100 of Women in the Arts and was conferred the title Professor in 2020 in recognition of her ‘outstanding contribution to the advancement of her discipline’.

Past productions

Director, Enough of Him, Perth Theatre at Horsecross Arts and Perth Theatre Company 16^th – 18^th November 2022, Perth Theatre.
Director, Enough of Him, Pitlochry Festival Theatre Company 20^th – 29^th October 2022, Pitlochry Festival Theatre 1.
Director, Relatively Speaking, Watermill Theatre 17^th February – 26^th March 2011, Watermill Theatre, Newbury.
Director, Blithe Spirit, Watermill Theatre 21^st May – 27^th June 2009, Watermill Theatre, Newbury.
Director, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Peepolykus 16^th April – 21^st July 2007, Duchess Theatre, London.
Director, sob stories, sob 11^th – 30^th June 2002, Battersea Arts Centre, London.
Assistant Director, Proof 9^th May – 15^th June 2002, Donmar Warehouse, London.
Director, The Fire Raisers, sob 6^th – 29^th July 2001, Battersea Arts Centre, London.

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