Orla O'Loughlin
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Orla O'Loughlin is a British theatre director. She joined the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh as Artistic Director in January 2012.[1]
Orla O'Loughlin was previously Artistic Director of Pentabus Theatre.[citation needed] Orla joined the company in 2007, moving from the Royal Court Theatre where she was the International Associate.[citation needed]
Directing work includes:
- Grain in the Blood (Tron Theatre, Traverse Theatre)
- Milk (Traverse Theatre)
- Tracks of the Winter Bear (Traverse Theatre)
- Swallow (Traverse Theatre)
- The Devil Masters (Traverse Theatre)
- Spoiling (Traverse Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East)
- Ciara (Traverse Theatre, Citizens Theatre)
- Clean and A Respectable Widow takes to Vulgarity (Traverse Theatre, Oran Mor, Theatre 59E59, NYC)
- The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society (Traverse Theatre)
- The Artist Man and the Mother Woman (Traverse Theatre)
- For Once (Hampstead Theatre, National Tour)
- Tales of the Country, Origins (Pleasance, Theatre Severn, National Tour)
- Relatively Speaking, Blithe Spirit, Black Comedy (Watermill Theatre)
- Kebab (Dublin International Festival, Royal Court Theatre)
- Small Talk: Big Picture (Royal Court Theatre, ICA, BBC World Service)
- How Much is your Iron? (Young Vic)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (West Yorkshire Playhouse, National Tour and West End)
- Shuffle (Merry Hill Shopping Centre)
- Underland (Clearwell Caves)
- A Dulditch Angel (National Tour)
- The Fire Raisers, sob stories, Refrain (BAC).
Orla was winner of the James Menzies Kitchin Directors Award and recipient of the Carlton Bursary at the Donmar Warehouse.[citation needed] She trained at the National Theatre and National Theatre Studio.[citation needed] She has a B.A in Theatre and Performance from Warwick University, an M.A in Advanced Theatre Practice from Central School of Speech and Drama and a PGCE in Drama from the University of Reading.[citation needed]
Last year[year needed] the Observer listed Orla as one of the top 50 Cultural leaders in the U.K.[citation needed] Since taking up post as Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre her work has won a variety of Herald Angels, Fringe Firsts and Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland.[citation needed]
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