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Ben Barnes

Ben is the Director of the Theatre Royal Waterford where he oversaw the recent restoration of the theatre (2007-2012). He is a former Artistic Director of Opera Theatre Company, the Gaiety Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre (2000-2005). His award-winning theatre productions have been seen all over the world in cities including New York, Chicago, London, Tokyo, Moscow, Sydney, Budapest, Prague, Athens and many more. Productions for the French Canadian Theatre Danser a Lughnasa, The Cripple of Inishmann and En Attendant Godot have won Masque and MECCA awards in Montreal for best production and best direction. He has been the recipient of an Irish Times theatre award on several occasions. He has directed extensively in the United States, most recently productions of The Seafarer, The Cherry Orchard, A Month in the Country and Endgame. Opera credits include productions of Le Nozze di Figaro, Rigoletto, Carmen, La Bohème, The Turn of the Screw , La Clemenza di Tito, Albert Herring, Così fan tutte, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, and The Invader, a new Irish opera by Eric Sweeney premiered at the Theatre Royal Waterford and the Wexford Opera House in 2014.

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