John Comiskey

John is a Director and Designer for set, lighting and video working across theatre, film and TV. He is based in Dublin.  He was curator and designer of the Irish participation at the Prague Quadrennial Exhibition of World Theatre Design in 2007.

His many designs for the Abbey Theatre includes; lighting for Joyce’s Women, Kicking a Dead Horse, The Drawer Boy and The Doctor’s Dilemma;  set, lighting and video for Hamlet and set and lighting for Shape of Metal (co-designed with Alan Farquharson). Other theatre credits include set, lighting and video design for Phaedra and Sodome, My Love (Rough Magic), lighting for L’Orfeo (Opera Theatre Company), Dodgems (CoisCéim Dance Theatre), set and lighting for Mermaids, Hanging on by a Thread (CoisCéim Dance Theatre), A Particle of Dread (Field Day Theatre Company) and Copenhagen (Rough Magic Theatre Company) Winner of an Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Design.

For Film/TV his directing credits include the dance film Hit and Run and the documentaries Behind the Walls, The Wren’s Day and The Berlin of Agnes Bernelle.  Filmed concerts include Celtic Woman, Brian Kennedy, Liam Lawton, Ronan Tynan (PBS television), Tammy Wynette and Johnny Cash (RTÉ) and The Eurovision Song Contest. As a director for RTÉ his credits included Nighthawks, Today Tonight, The Blackbird, The Bell and many special events.