Jason Byrne
Jason’s productions at the Abbey Theatre include Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar, Turgenev’s A Month in the Country in a version by Brian Friel, Judas of the Gallarus by Donal O’ Kelly, Living Quarters by Brian Friel, Treehouses by Elizabeth Kuti and Observatory by Daragh Carville. He was Staff Director at the Abbey Theatre from 1988 to 2000. Jason is Artistic Director of Loose Canon Theatre Company where he directed The Maids by Jean Genet, Julius Caesar, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Measure for Measure, The Duchess of Malfi, The Spanish Tragedy, Coriolanus (for which he received a Ford Sunday Independent Spirit of Life Award), The White Devil, Hamlet, In the Dark Air of a Closed Room, Macbeth (winner of Best Production Dublin Fringe 2001), Hedda Gabler, Fragments of a Dead Performance (nominated Sexiest Production Dublin Fringe 2003), Medea (a work in progress), h (an original performance based on Hamlet and The Orestia (nominated for a Special Judge’s Award Irish Times Theatre Awards 2005) and Waterfront Wasteland Medea Material Landscape with Argonauts. Other work includes A Piece of Monologue, Not I, What Where by Samuel Beckett, Wedding Day at the Cro Magnons’ by Wajdi Mouawad (Bedrock Productions), Wall of Cloud by Raymond Deane (Opera Theatre Company) and A Whistle in the Dark by Tom Murphy and Festen by David Eldridge (Company Theatre, Toronto).
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