Tom Creed
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Tom Creed-Opera and Theatre Director
Opera and music theatre productions include The Tales of Hoffmann with Irish National Opera, Owen Wingrave with the Op\\xe9ra national de Paris and Opera Collective Ireland, Irish tours of Acis and Galatea,\\xa0 The Human Voice and Susanna\\u2019s Secret for Opera Theatre Company, Mavra and The Bear with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and Die Zauberfl\\xf6te, Suor Angelica, Mavra and Renard with the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
World premieres of new work include The Hunger by Donnacha Dennehy at Opera Theatre of St Louis and the BAM Next Wave Festival in New York, Private View by Annelies van Parys, produced by Muziektheater Transparant
Private View was awarded the FEDORA Rolf Liebermann Prize for Opera in 2014, Best Production at the Armel Opera Festival in Budapest in 2015, and was named by Music Theatre NOW 2015 as one of 14 notable productions \\u201cwhich are aesthetically innovative and reflect new developments in this genre\\u201d .
He was an Opera Hub associate artist of Opera Theatre Company in Dublin from 2015 to 2017.He directed Vivaldi\\u2019s Griselda with Irish National Opera in Autumn 2019 and is developing a new opera with composer Michael Gallen for premiere in France and Ireland in 2021.
Theatre
His extensive work as a theatre director includes productions with the Abbey Theatre, Gate Theatre, Rough Magic, Playgroup (which he co-founded in 2003) and a range of independent Irish companies, which have played in Ireland, the UK, Europe, the USA and Australia. He was nominated for Best Director at the Irish Times Theatre Awards in 2007.
His productions of Watt by Samuel Beckett with acclaimed Irish actor Barry McGovern has been presented at the Dublin Theatre Festival, Galway Arts Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Perth International Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Barbican Centre in London, the Public Theatre in New York and on tour in the USA.
Tom is a member of the steering group of the National Campaign for the Arts