Artistic Director

Annie Ryan

Originally from Chicago, Annie trained as an actor at the Piven Theatre Workshop from the age of 12, and at 18 became a member Chicago’s famous Commedia company, New Crime. The combined vocabularies of the Piven's work in Theatre Games, Improvisation and Story Theatre and the Commedia style of New Crime formed the foundation of her work with The Corn Exchange.

Over the years, the company’s practice and style has grown and morphed, greatly influenced by the wonderful invention and talent of the company’s ensemble players. Annie has directed all of the company’s productions to date, including modern classics, adaptations and original works created in collaboration with writer Michael West, of which she is most proud.

Associate Artist

Michael West

Michael West has written many plays in collaboration with Annie Ryan and The Corn Exchange, including Dublin By Lamplight; The Seagull; the world premiere adaptation of James Joyce’s Dubliners; Man of Valour; and Freefall. Other work for The Corn Exchange includes Everyday; Foley; and an adaptation of Lolita (in a co-production with the Abbey).

He has translated or adapted many texts, among them The Marriage of Figaro for the Abbey; a version of Death and the Ploughman by the Bohemian 14^th century writer Johannes Von Saaz for Christian Schiaretti of the TNP in Lyon and produced by SITI company and directed by Anne Bogart in the USA; and work by Molière, Marivaux and Calderón. His latest translation, Forever Yours, Mary-Lou by Michel Tremblay premiered at the Theatre Royal in Bath in March 2016. 

In 2014 the Abbey Theatre presented a world premiere of Conservatory. His latest play, The Chinese Room, premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the USA in 2016, directed by James Macdonald.

In 2017 he was dramaturg on Webster’s The White Devil at the Globe, and Dead Centre’s Hamnet, which played at the Schaubühne, Berlin and the Abbey in Dublin. He has written plays for children, for radio and adapted an Oscar Wilde story for the English National Ballet. He is published by Methuen.

Associate Director

Eoghan Carrick

Eoghan is a freelance director, lighting designer and dramaturg. In 2015, he was made an Associate Director with Corn Exchange Theatre Company.

Recent directing credits includes: Nora (Dublin Theatre Festival, 2017),This Lime Tree Bower (Project Arts Centre/Irish Tour, 2016), The Boyz of Harcourt Street (Smock Alley Theatre, 2016), The Matador (Bewleys Café Theatre, 2015), Panned (Theatre Upstairs, 2015), The Ugly One (The Lir, 2014). 

Credits as a lighting designer include George Bush and Children (Project Arts Centre, 2017), Panned, The Man in Two Pieces, Hollow Ground (Theatre Upstairs, 2015), Leper+Chip(Theatre Upstairs/international tour 2014/15) and Stella Full of Storms (Theatre Upstairs/Irish tour, 2014/15). 

As a dramaturg, Eoghan worked on the Paris Opera Academy/ Opera Collective Ireland production of Owen Wingrave directed by Tom Creed and he works with the Abbey Theatre's New Work Department in Ireland.

As an assistant director, he has most recently worked with Wide Open Opera and Landmark Production on The Second Violinist; Opera Theatre Company on a number of operas, most recently Acis and Galatea (Wexford Opera House/Irish Tour, 2017); with Corn Exchange Theatre Company on a number of productions since 2012; and with Abbey Theatre on Shibboleth (Peacock Theatre, 2015). 

 Eoghan has a B.A. International in Drama and English from UCD and an MFA with Distinction in Theatre Directing from The Lir Academy at Trinity College Dublin. He is currently developing INFINITY with Nessa Mathews in association with Corn Exchange and Mermaid Arts Centre; Memento Murray with Ste Murray; and Bodies of Water with Maeve Stone in association with Corn Exchange.

You can find out more about his work at eoghancarrick.com