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Paul O'Mahony residency, Oct 2017

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Black and white profile photograph of actor and director Paul O'Mahony

Paul O’Mahony is artistic director of Out of Chaos theatre company with whom he created UNMYTHABLE, which won the Three Weeks Editors’ Award in Edinburgh 2012. UNMYTHABLE toured to more than 80 theatres across the UK, Europe, and New Zealand. Paul's residency with the APGRD (23-28 Oct. 2017) researched and developed Out Crossing the Sea - a new show based on the Aeneid.

The show's development was also supported by The Playground Theatre in London and the Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies.

A lecture-performance on the initial development of Crossing the Sea was delivered on Friday 27 October at 5pm in the Ioannou Centre Lecture Theatre, 66 St Giles, Oxford:

 

In 2011, Paul adapted three Greek tragedies to create The House of Atreus, which was produced at the Barbican in London. With Rob Castell, he recently completed his first full-length musical, Olympia based (once again!) on Greek mythology. In 2015, he directed Much Ado About Nothing in his role as Eminent Artist-in-residence at the University of Wyoming. Paul studied Classics at Oxford University where he twice won the Cawkwell Prize for Classics and was awarded an ancient history scholarship. He is Director of Outreach at Kallos Gallery in London. 

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Poster advertising Crossing the Sea event, featuring a green watercolour illustration of Aeneas carrying his father Anchises out of Troy

Paul’s work as an actor has included stints with companies such as The Orange Tree Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, and English Touring Opera, among many others. He has toured extensively in the United States with leading roles in Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He is an Associate Director of Actors From The London Stage and was associate producer at Jermyn Street Theatre where his credits included All That Fall (starring Michael Gambon and Eileen Atkins), St John’s Night and Mother Adam.

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Three people in a rehearsal space, creating a figure out of brown paper
Crossing the Sea, initial development workshop
Members of Out of Chaos working with a paper puppet that represented Aeneas' father, Anchises.