Andrew Flynn

Andrew Flynn

Andrew Flynn is the director of Theatre at Galway Arts Centre and the Artistic Director of Decadent Theatre Company. He also works as a freelance theatre director. Most recently Andrew directed ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ and The Lieutenant of Inismore by Martin
McDonagh for Gaiety productions in 2019/2020.

Recent directing credits for Decadent Theatre include:

The World premieres of ‘A Thing About December’ by Donal Ryan and ‘A Love Like That’ by Billy Roche. ‘Eden’ by Eugene O’Brien, ‘The Mai‘by Marina Carr, ‘Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me’ by Frank McGuinness, ‘Pumpgirl ‘by Abbie Spallen, ‘The Weir’ by Conor McPherson, ‘The Pillowman’ by Martin McDonagh, ‘The Dead School’ by Pat McCabe, ‘Vernon God Little’ by Tanya Rhonder, ‘Defender Of The Faith’ by Stuart Carolan, ‘A Skull In Connemara’ by Martin McDonagh (3 Irish Times Nominations), ‘Port Authority’ by Conor McPhearson(For which he was nominated as Best Director at the Irish Times Theatre Awards), ‘Doub’t by John Patrick Shanley (2 Irish Times Nominations), ‘Faith Healer’ by Brian Friel (Decadent /Townhall Galway), ‘The Seafarer’ by Conor McPhearson, ‘The Cavelcaders’ by Billy Roche (Decadent/ Nomad Theatre Network), the world premieres of ‘Here We Are Again Still’ by Christian O’Reilly and ‘Character’ by Mark Dillon, Country Music by Simon Stephens, Blackbird by David Harrower.

Directing credits for Lyric Theatre Belfast include:

Philadelphia Here I Come by Brian Friel, Dockers by Martin Lynch, PumpGirl by Abbie Spallen’ The Pillowman’ By Martin McDonagh and ‘The Weir’by Conor McPherson.

Other credits include:

Juno And The Paycock by Sean O’Casey (A.R.T Northern Ireland/Cork Opera House), Translation by Brian Friels (Ouroborous Theatre Company), Via Dolorosa by David Hare, (Cuirt Literature Festival), The Lieutenant Of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh (Irish Premiere, Cork Opera House/Millenium Theatre Derry/Townhall Theatre Galway), Translations (Townhall Galway).

As the head of theatre at Galway Arts Centre Andrew has directed over 70 productions for Galway Youth Theatre some highlights include:

‘Frank Pig Says Hello’ and ‘The Adventures of Shay Mouse’ by Pat McCabe, ‘The Crucible’ by Arthur Miller, ‘Portia Coughlan’ by Marina Carr, ‘Lovely Betty’ by Mark O’Halloran, ‘Our Country’s Good’ by Timberlake Vertenbaker The Irish premieres of: ‘Midsummer’,’ Monster In the Hall’ and ‘Yellowmoon’ by David Greig, ‘Autobahn’ by Neil La Bute, ‘Talking To Terrorists’ by Robin Soans ,’Tejas Verdes’ by Fermin Cabal, ‘Country Music’ by Simon Stephens,’Concensual ‘ by Nina Raine. World premieres of ‘Teacher’ by Christian O’Reilly

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