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Directing

Terry has collaborated with playwrights and producers as a director on ambitious site-based productions.

  • Bread Not Profits
    WINNER – Audience Choice Award Irish Times Theatre Awards 2020.
    An original large-scale site-specific play performed in Cleeve’s Factory, Limerick to commemorate 100 years of the Limerick Soviet in 2019. Following an extensive research period, the production was staged with a cast of 11 professionals and 20 local cast members.
  • On the Wire
    Nominated for Best Production – Irish Times Theatre Awards 2015.
    Directed and co-devised this Limerick City of Culture commission performed in an abandoned Sailor’s Home, Limerick.
  • Home Fires 
    Large-scale site specific performance with cast of 70 performed at Newhaven Fort for ZAP Arts.

“led by director Terry O’Donovan … use the Cleeves space to create something that is truly exceptional in both scale and content.”
The Irish Times