Joe O’Byrne plays include Departed, The Ghost of Saint Joan, The Sinking of the Titanic and Other Matters, It Come up Sun, En Suite (Abbey/ Peacock Theatre, Dublin), and The Article (Altes Schauspielhaus, Stuttgart). He has directed many plays and adaptations including Frank Pig Says Hello, adapted by Pat McCabe from his novel; The Butcher Boy; Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray at Irish Repertory Theatre, New York, and The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle. At the Gate Theatre, Dublin, he directed The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter as part of the first Pinter Festival. Most recently he has directed Nighttown by James Joyce, his own play McKeague and O’Brien present ‘The Rising’, The Leaves of Heaven by Pat McCabe, and his own play Enough. Film and television work includes “Korea,” “Pete’s Meteor,” and “An Brontanas/The Gift,” and for radio, Old Punks Rule, The Blue Hyacinth, and Yardstick.
Joe O’Byrne has recently directed The Cordelia Dream for Irish Rep Online, as well as J.M. Synge’s The Aran Islands. Watch The Aran Islands on demand now, and sign up for The Cordelia Dream, running July 27 – August 8, 2021, for free.