Lynne Parker

Artistic Director and co-founder of Rough Magic Theatre Company

Lynne is Artistic Director and co-founder of Rough Magic Theatre Company.

Her most recent work for the company is Peter Hanly’s What Are You Afraid Of?, a co-production with Kilkenny Arts Festival; and Hilary Fannin’s Children of the Sun (after Gorky), a co-production with the Abbey Theatre.

Other productions for Rough Magic include Freefalling by Georgina Miller (with Lime Tree | Belltable, Limerick), The Tempest by William Shakespeare (with Kilkenny Arts Festival 2022),  Solar Bones by Mike McCormack, adapted by Michael West (Kilkenny Arts Festival 2020, the Abbey 2022), Hecuba by Marina Carr (Dublin Theatre Festival 2019), Cleft by Fergal McEherron (2019), A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Kilkenny Arts Festival (Best Ensemble 2018), Melt (Dublin Theatre Festival 2017), The House Keeper (Best New Play 2012), Don Carlos (Best Production 2007), The Taming of the Shrew (Best Production 2006), Improbable Frequency (Best Production, Best Director 2004), Copenhagen (Best Production 2002), Pentecost (Best Irish Production, Dublin Theatre Festival 1995) and by Declan Hughes Digging For Fire (London Time Out Award 1992), New Morning, Love and A Bottle and Shiver.

Other theatre credits include  Heavenly Bodies, The Sanctuary Lamp, Down The Line (Abbey); The Drawer Boy (Galway International Arts Festival); The Girl Who Forgot to Sing Badly (Theatre Lovett); Macbeth (Lyric Belfast); also productions for Charabanc, Druid, the Gate, the Bush, Corn Exchange, the Almeida, the Old Vic, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Teatrul National Bucharest, Traverse Edinburgh, The Tron Glasgow and the Royal Shakespeare Company,

Lynne most recently received the 2020 Best Director Award at the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards for Solar Bones. She was awarded the Irish Times Special Tribute Award in 2008 and an Honorary Doctorate from Trinity College Dublin in 2010.