tracyryan (o’flaherty)- cv
Previous directing and writing work:
Raglan Rogues by Kevin Burns — 2025
Staged reading, The Mill Theatre
Development with Keeper Pictures — 2025
Mentoring - Sea Swimming by Lesley Conroy — 2025
Funded by the Irish Arts Council
New writing work Attachment at the National Theatre — 2024
with dramaturg Andrew Muir
Strike! by Tracy Ryan produced by Ardent Theatre at the Southwark Playhouse (2023) ★★★★ (Times) ★★★★★ (Everything Theatre)
Strike! Online Education Resource and Workshop Programme — 2023/2024
Tracy Ryan & Zita Holbourne produced by Ardent Theatre Company
Songs of Theys by Lorcan Strain – Marian Mary 6th — 2023
Royal Chapel, Dublin Castle – Dublin Fringe Festival
Hub Nub by Roger Gregg — 2023
Gaiety School of Acting, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin
A Christmas Visit by Stuart Roche — 2023
Reading, Irish Theatre Institute
Sisters – A New Irish Musical by Ryan / VanKeith — 2022
Book & Lyrics: Tracy Ryan
Music & Lyrics: Kaeylea VanKeith
The Mill Theatre, Dublin - produced by the Mill and funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media Local Live Performance Programming Scheme
The First Irish Coffee by Lee Coffey — 2022
The Laughter Lounge, Dublin
Strange Days by Lee Coffey — 2022
Gaiety School of Acting, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin
Shard by Stuart Roche — 2022
Reading, The New Theatre, Dublin
Rogue by Lee Coffey — 2021
Gaiety School of Acting, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin
Sure Thing by Jed Murray & Eric O’Brien — 2020
The Corps Ensemble, Bohemian Theatre, Dublin
Christmas Crackers - Skate Away by Hilary Dziminski — 2019
The Corps Ensemble, Bohemian Theatre, Dublin
Brothers of the Brush by Jimmy Murphy — 2018–2019 ★★★★ (The Arts Review)
Verdant Productions – National Tour
Viking Theatre; Civic Theatre; Droichead Arts Centre; Dunamaise Arts Centre (Portlaoise);
G.B. Shaw Theatre; The Mill Theatre; Mermaid Arts Centre; Pavilion Theatre;
Ramor Theatre; The Venue Ratoath; Theatre Royal Waterford
Iphigenia in Splott (Irish première) by Gary Owen — 2018 ★★★★ (The Arts Review)
Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin
Pippi by Tracy Ryan — 2018
Reading for Together for Yes, New Theatre, Dublin
Trainspotting by Harry Gibson & Irvine Welsh — 2018 ★★★★ (Irish Daily Mail) ★★★★ (The Arts Review)
Verdant Productions, Olympia Theatre
Legacy by Sally Grey & Susan Avery — 2018
Blueprint Theatre Company, Rich Mix, London
Caitríona and Cathal-Cúig by Aron & Sorcha Hegarty — 2018
Scene & Heard Festival, Reading, Smock Alley Theatre
Disco Pigs and Sucking Dublin by Enda Walsh — 2017 ★★★★ (Irish Daily Mail)
Reality: Check Productions, Smock Alley Theatre
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards – Best Ensemble
The Boys by Michael Harnett — 2017–2018
Viking Theatre; Smock Alley Theatre; Dolmen Theatre
Trainspotting by Harry Gibson & Irvine Welsh — 2016–2017 ★★★★ (Irish Daily Mail) ★★★★ (The Arts Review) Smock Alley Theatre; Body & Soul Festival
Sure Thing by Eric O’Brien & Jed Murray — 2015–2016
Dublin Fringe Festival; Bewley’s Café Theatre; Axis Ballymun;
Dolmen Theatre; Drogheda Arts Festival
Rise by Tracy Ryan - freerein theatre company — 2015–2016
Áras Chrónáin & Irish Tour
Developed with Rowlagh Women’s Group and the Irish Women’s Collective Ireland
REVOLUTION! by freerein Theatre Company — 2014–2015
Smock Alley Theatre; Chancery Lane Theatre; Axis Ballymun; Community Centre Tour
Guaranteed! by Colin Murphy — ★★★★ (The Irish Times)
Assistant Director to Conall Morrison
Fishamble Theatre Company – Civic Theatre; Pavilion Theatre; Irish Tour
Other Professional Experience:
Founder Member — Studio 3 Arts. London
Co-founded award-winning arts organisation by and for young people.
Freelance Theatre-Worker
Worked with Ashland New Plays Festival (Oregon, USA), San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs, University of East London; National Theatre Education Programme (Albany Theatre); The Chain Reaction, Theatre Venture; The National Trust; Trinity College London and Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Actor
Film and television credits including ITV, BBC, Granada Television and Thin Man Films. Theatre: founding member, actor & writer with the Angels Theatre Company including The Footballer’s Wife (Hens & Chickens, Riverside Studios, Royal Festival Hall) and Actor/ writer with The Work Theatre Collective devising new performances including Project C (Time Out Critics Choice).
Education
PhD, Practice as Research — University of Sussex — 2023
The Artist as Activist in Contemporary Theatre
MA Theatre & Performance Studies — University College Dublin — 2011
Acting — East 15 Acting School