Ciaran O'Reilly

Ciaran O'Reilly co-founded The Irish Repertory Theatre in New York City. He continues to work there as an actor, director, and Producing Director. He has produced over 200 plays and musicals. Favorite directing credits include: The Butcher Boy, A Touch of the Poet, Autumn Royal, A Touch Of The Poet*, The Weir* (*Performances on Screen), Lady G: Plays and Whisperings of Lady Gregory, Dublin Carol, The Shadow of a Gunman, The Seafarer, The Dead, 1904, Shining City, Off the Meter, On the Record, The Weir (Calloway Nom.), Banished Children of Eve, The Emperor Jones (Callaway Award, O'Neill Credo Award, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel Nom.), The Hairy Ape (Drama Desk Drama League and Callaway Nom.), Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Drama Desk Nom). Irish Rep acting roles include Da, Juno and the Paycock, Dancing at Lughnasa, Molly Sweeney, Candida, Aristocrats, A Whistle in the Dark, The Shaughraun, and The Irish and How They Got That Way. He appeared in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of A Touch of the Poet with Gabriel Byrne. He has appeared at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and made his Broadway debut in The Corn is Green. Films include The Devil's Own (starring Harrison Ford), Law & Order, The Irish...and How They Got That Way, Third Watch, Bored to Death and The Knick. Ciarán has been inducted in to the Irish America Hall of Fame, received the Eugene O'Neill Lifetime Achievement Award and has been awarded the Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad, 2019 by President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins. In November of 2022, the New York Landmarks Commission named him as a "New York Living Landmark" at the Plaza Hotel.