Artistic Director
Donal Gallagher
Donal is co-founder and Artistic Director of Asylum Productions.
Directing credits for Asylum include:
Six By Sundown by Ciaran Ruby Asylum/Camphill Communities.
National Heritage Week 2008
Meat by Neil O'Sullivan
Granary -Cork Midsummer Festival 2007, premier
Cleaner
Co-devised with Medb Lambert for Kilkenny Arts Festival 2006 , Midsummer Festival 2007
Pondlife Angels by Enda Walsh
World premier
Bedbound by Enda Walsh
Cork Midsummer Festival – and national tour
…touched… by Ursula Rani Sarma
Asylum - National Tour
Bar & Ger by Geraldine Arron
Donal is also a freelance director
Credits include:
End of The Line
Magnet Productions - Midsummer Festival 2008
Stuff That Happens When You're Deaf
Spirit Of Sign - Arts Council 'Artist in the Community Award winner 2007 and 2008
Down Through The yEars - Arts Council 'Artist in the Community Award winner 2007 and 2008
Chatroom
Boomerang – Everyman Palace, Cork and National Theatre, London
Frozen by Bryony Lavery
Cork Opera House
The Little Prince
Seven Ages
Christie in Love by Howard Brenton
Can't Stand Up for Falling Down by Richard Cameron
Granary Productions
Acting credits include:
The Whale – Jonah
Talking Birds - A 3-minute touring show for 1 audience member at a time performed inside an aluminium whale.
The Last Lot
Talking Birds/Kilkenny Arts Office
The Bald Prima Donna
Asylum
Wandering and Swept by Ursula Sarma
Asylum
Parrots' Voices by Andreas Marber
Asylum -Irish premier
Beautiful Thing
Irish premier
La Ronde
Granary Productions, Cork
The School for Wives
Granary Productions, Cork
Reviews for Donal's freelance work
Critics on “Chatroom” by Enda Walsh (Boomerang)
“...one of the most fully realised Irish productions I have seen in a very long time for any target market or age group. Everything that is good about this play is supported by its production...Gallagher's precise direction and clean blocking...This kind of skill knows no demographic.”
Susan Conley Irish Theatre Magazine summer 2005
“Walsh's script is magnificently performed by Cork's Boomerang Theatre Company... Donal Gallagher's inventive production makes the internet dramatic with computer generated images of it's maze-like infinity”
Nicholas de Jongh Evening Standard 7/7/'05
“...a chilling and powerful tale of manipulation and bullying... staged with enormous aplomb by Boomerang Theatre Company...the best possible advertisement for theatre…”
Lyn Gardner The Guardian 7/7/'05
Critics on “Frozen” by Bryony Lavery (Cork Opera House)
“Superb...Donal Gallagher brings the right non-hysterical response to the script”
Liam Heylin - Evening Echo
Critics on “Christie in Love” by Howard Brenton (Granary)
“From start to finish the show is a polished triumph …”
Brian O'Connell The Irish Examiner 23/04/02
Critics on “Joe Egg” by Peter Nichols (Granary)
“...Gallagher makes the most of the play's interactive possibilities...a particularly lovely piece of directing ...experiments with the potential of the theatre space and the use of live music in the production”
Rachel Roberts The Irish Examiner Nov. '98
“Director Donal Gallagher's keen eye for emotional and physical detail yielded persuasive, moving performances from his entire cast”
Galway Advertiser April '99