ARTISTS
John Comiskey
John's work with CoisCéim has been:
set and lighting designs for Mermaids and Hanging on by a Thread; lighting for Out of Harm’s Way and also as director of the award-winning film Hit and Run.Other recent theatre work includes:
lighting design for Kicking a Dead Horse at the Abbey; The Sanctuary Lamp [b*spoke];
set, lighting and video for the Abbey / Lyric co-production of Hamlet;set and lighting designs for Only The Lonely [Birmingham Rep.],
Shiver and Copenhagen [Rough Magic], for which he won an Irish Times /ESB
Theatre Award for Best Stage Design.
Work as director includes The Frost is All Over [ten42] for the Junction festival Clonmel;
The Well [Abhann Productions]
and Gavin Friday's Ich Liebe Dich, both for the Dublin Theatre Festival. He was production director worldwide of Riverdance - The Show [Abhann Productions] for two years.
Earlier this year he was Creative Director for Dustin the Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade.
Film work includes directing documentaries on the Dingle Wren's Day and Berlin Years of Agnes Bernelle. Filmed concerts include Liam Lawton Live in Dublin, Celtic Woman,
Brian Kennedy Live in Belfast and Ronan Tynan: The Impossible Dream for PBS.
He was a television director for RTE for twelve years where his numerous credits included
The Eurovision Song Contest 1995, Nighthawks, , popscene, and The Blackbird and the Bell, He was curator and designer of the Irish participation at PQ07, the Prague Quadrennial Exhibition of world theatre design 2007.
set and lighting designs for Mermaids and Hanging on by a Thread; lighting for Out of Harm’s Way and also as director of the award-winning film Hit and Run.Other recent theatre work includes:
lighting design for Kicking a Dead Horse at the Abbey; The Sanctuary Lamp [b*spoke];
set, lighting and video for the Abbey / Lyric co-production of Hamlet;set and lighting designs for Only The Lonely [Birmingham Rep.],
Shiver and Copenhagen [Rough Magic], for which he won an Irish Times /ESB
Theatre Award for Best Stage Design.
Work as director includes The Frost is All Over [ten42] for the Junction festival Clonmel;
The Well [Abhann Productions]
and Gavin Friday's Ich Liebe Dich, both for the Dublin Theatre Festival. He was production director worldwide of Riverdance - The Show [Abhann Productions] for two years.
Earlier this year he was Creative Director for Dustin the Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade.
Film work includes directing documentaries on the Dingle Wren's Day and Berlin Years of Agnes Bernelle. Filmed concerts include Liam Lawton Live in Dublin, Celtic Woman,
Brian Kennedy Live in Belfast and Ronan Tynan: The Impossible Dream for PBS.
He was a television director for RTE for twelve years where his numerous credits included
The Eurovision Song Contest 1995, Nighthawks, , popscene, and The Blackbird and the Bell, He was curator and designer of the Irish participation at PQ07, the Prague Quadrennial Exhibition of world theatre design 2007.
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