Selina Cartmell
Selina’s work at the Abbey Theatre includes Only an Apple by Tom Mac Intyre, Big Love by Charles Mee and Woman and Scarecrow by Marina Carr. For the Gate Theatre she has directed Sweeney Todd (Best Opera Production, Irish Times Theatre Awards), Festen and Catastrophe as part of the Beckett Centenary Festival (Gate and Barbican, London). Selina is Artistic Director of Director of Siren Productions where work includes Macbeth, Titus Andronicus (winner of four Irish Times Theatre Awards including Best Production and Best Director), La Musica (Best Production and Best Actress, Dublin Fringe Festival), Fando & Lis and Shutter (Project Arts Centre). Other productions include Here Lies, Galway Arts Festival, Dublin and Paris and Passades (both with Operating Theatre), Sunlight at Midnight (BAC, London) and The Nightingale (Project Arts Centre). Selina was a finalist in the Opera Europa/Camerata Nouva Europäische Opernregie-Preis (International Directors Opera Award Wiesbaden, Germany 2005). In 2006 she was chosen as a Protégée in the third cycle of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, an international philanthropic programme which pairs rising young artists with master artists for a year of mentoring. Selina has just finished collaborating with her mentor, world-renowned director and designer, Julie Taymor. Selina holds an MA (distinction) from Central School of Speech and Drama in Advanced Theatre Practice in Directing and a First Class MA in History of Art and Drama from Trinity College, Dublin and Glasgow University. Most recently, Selina directed Marina Carr’s The Cordelia Dream for the RSC at Wilton’s Music Hall, London and The Giant Blue Hand at the Ark Theatre, Dublin.
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