Lynne Parker
Lynne is co-founder and Artistic Director of Rough Magic Theatre Company. Productions for Rough Magic include Top Girls, Decadence, The Country Wife, Nightshade, Spokesong, Serious Money, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Tempest, Tom and Viv, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Digging for Fire, Love and a Bottle, I Can’t Get Started, New Morning, Danti-Dan, Down onto Blue, The Dogs, Hidden Charges, Halloween Night, The Way of the World, Pentecost, Northern Star, The School for Scandal, The Whisperers, Boomtown, Three Days of Rain, Dead Funny, Midden, Copenhagen (Best Production, Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Awards), Shiver, Olga, Take me Away, Improbable Frequency (Best Production and Best Director, Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Awards) and The Life of Galileo.
Productions at the Abbey and Peacock Theatres include The Trojan Women, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Tartuffe, Down the Line, The Sanctuary Lamp, The Drawer Boy (Galway Arts Festival co-production), The Shape of Metal and Heavenly Bodies (Best Director, Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Awards). Other work outside the company includes productions for Druid, Tinderbox, Opera Theatre Company and 7:84 Scotland. Lynne was an associate artist of Charabanc for whom she adapted and directed The House of Bernarda Alba. Lynne has also directed The Clearing (Bush Theatre), The Playboy of the Western World, The Silver Tassie and Our Father (Almeida Theatre), Brothers of the Brush (Arts Theatre), The Shadow of a Gunman (Gate, Dublin), Playhouse Creatures (The Peter Hall Company at the Old Vic), The Importance of Being Earnest (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Love Me?! (Corn Exchange’s Car Show), The Comedy of Errors (RSC), Olga and Shimmer (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), The Drunkard (b*spoke Theatre Company) and most recently Only The Lonely for the Birmingham Rep.
