Galway International Arts Festival Co-Production Nominated for Irish Theatre Awards

Irish Theatre Awards Nominations for GIAF Co-Production

Our hit co-production with Landmark Productions, Arlington, has been nominated under the category of Best Sound Design (Helen Atkinson) and Best Set (Jamie Vartan). Arlington, which is currently on tour and will be showing in the Abbey Theatre from 10 to 23 February 2017, is just one of our co-productions currently being toured internationally.

The world-renowned Galway-based Druid Theatre Company swept the boards with nominations for Waiting for Godot, which formed part of our 2016 festival, and the legendary The Beauty Queen of Leenane.

Other nominees for the Irish Theatre Awards include:

Best Actor

Mikel Murfi
For his performance in Swan Lake/Loch na hEala, a Michael Keegan-Dolan, Sadler’s Wells Theatre London, Colours International Dance Festival, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Dublin Theatre Festival, and Theatre de la Ville, Luxembourg co-production

Marty Rea
For his roles as Vladimir in the Druid production of Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett, and as Iago in the Abbey Theatre production of Othello, by William Shakespeare

Stephen Rea
For his role as Eric in the Abbey Theatre and Royal Court Theatre co-production of Cyprus Avenue, by David Ireland

Owen Roe
For his role as Andre in the Gate Theatre production of Florian Zeller’s The Father, in a translation by Christopher Hampton

Best Actress

Barbara Brennan
For her role as Ellen in the Abbey Theatre production of Town is Dead, by Phillip McMahon, music by Raymond Scannell

Caitríona Ennis
For her performance in the WeGetHighOnThis Collective in association with Theatre Upstairs production of Test Dummy, by Caitríona Daly

Marie Mullen
For her role as Mag Folan in the Druid production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, by Martin McDonagh

Aisling O’Sullivan
For her role as Maureen Folan in the Druid production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, by Martin McDonagh

Best Supporting Actor

Stephen Brennan
For his role as Peter Sorin in The Corn Exchange and Dublin Theatre Festival production of The Seagull, by Anton Chekhov in a new version by Michael West and Annie Ryan

Brian Doherty
For his role as Finbar in the Abbey Theatre’s production of The Wake, by Tom Murphy

Rory Nolan
For his role as Pozzo in the Druid production of Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett

Daniel Reardon
For his role in the Brokentalkers production of This Beach, a co-production with the Munich Kammerspiele, the Goethe-Institut Irland presented as part of EUROPOLY at Tiger Dublin Fringe

Best Supporting Actress

Kate Gilmore
For her role as Katarina in the Abbey Theatre production of Town is Dead, by Phillip McMahon, music by Raymond Scannell

Clare Monnelly
For her role as Mary in the Nomad in association with Livin’ Dred Theatre Company production of Bailegangaire, by Tom Murphy

Janet Moran
For her role as Mrs Gogan in the Abbey Theatre production of The Plough and the Stars, by Sean O’Casey

Ali White
For her roles in Rough Magic Theatre Company’s production of Northern Star, by Stewart Parker

Best Director

Grace Dyas and Barry John O’Connor
For the THEATREclub production of It’s Not Over

Sean Holmes
For the Abbey Theatre production of The Plough and the Stars, by Sean O’Casey

Garry Hynes
For the Druid productions of Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett and The Beauty Queen of Leenane, by Martin McDonagh

Michael Keegan-Dolan
For Swan Lake/Loch na hEala, a Michael Keegan-Dolan, Sadler’s Wells Theatre London, Colours International Dance Festival, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Dublin Theatre Festival, and Theatre de la Ville, Luxembourg co-production

Best Production

Swan Lake/Loch na hEala
A Michael Keegan-Dolan, Sadler’s Wells Theatre London, Colours International Dance Festival, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Dublin Theatre Festival, and Theatre de la Ville, Luxembourg co-production

The Father
A Gate Theatre production of Florian Zeller’s play, in a translation by Christopher Hampton

The Plough and The Stars
An Abbey Theatre production of Sean O’Casey’s play

Waiting for Godot
A Druid production of Samuel Beckett’s play

Best Set Design

Ciaran Bagnall

For the Abbey Theatre, Headlong, Citizens Theatre and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse co-production of Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, by Frank McGuinness

Alex Lowde
For the Lyric Theatre production of Three Sisters by Lucy Caldwell, in a version of the play by Anton Chekhov

Francis O’Connor
For the Gate Theatre production of Florian Zeller’s The Father, in a translation by Christopher Hampton

Jamie Vartan
For the Blue Raincoat Theatre Company production of Shackleton, the Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival production of Arlington [a love story], by Enda Walsh and the Wide Open Opera production of The Barber of Seville, by Gioacchino Rossini