Niall Henry
Niall is from Sligo and is Artistic Director of Blue Raincoat. He studied in Paris with Corrine Soum and Maximillion Decroux and returned to Sligo in 1991 to co- found Blue Raincoat with Malcolm Hamilton. He has directed six of Malcolm’s plays, most recently The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst and A Brief Taste of Lighting. Other shows directed for Blue Raincoat include Hamlet, A Mid Summer’s Night Dream, The Tempest, Macbeth, J Clarkes adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (co-production Peacock theatre) and Brendan Ellis’ Hollow in the Sand. He has directed on two occasions for the National Theatre, Playboy of the Western World in 2002 and more recently, Colm Toibin’s Beauty in a Broken Place for abbey one hundred.
