Most Recent Movement Direction, Choreography & Devised Work & Upcoming work
Adelphi 63’at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin April 26’ - written by Laura Brady, Directed by Emma Finnegan.
The Lost Moth at THE ARK, Dublin Feb - March 26’ - Directed and writtenby Jesse Jones and Naomi Moonveld Nkosi.
Cradled By The Waves, Canadian Tour Spring 2026 - Directed by Julie Kelliher, created by Jenn Grant on Prince Edward Island, Canada.
In Real Life - Written by Erica Murray and Directed by Ursula McGinn
Buzzing - Written Directed by Ursula McGinn.
NAKED LIGHTS, Winner of Best International Film, Dingle Film Festival - Directed and Written by Jeda De Brí.
HAUS OF FASH HUN, The Lir Theatre, Dublin by FemmeBizarre | Co-created by - Jade O’Connor & Kate Finegan and Directed by Eoghan Carrick.
CAGED, Smock Alley Theatre DFF 17’ & National Tour 20’ by FemmeBizarre | Co-created by - Jade O’Connor & Kate Finegan and Directed by Jenny Jennings.
UNVEILED, Music Video - Directed by Ellius Grace & Written by LOAH.
Mrs.Cellophane, Project Arts Centre, Dublin by FemmeBizarre | Co-created and Directed by - Jade O’Connor & Kate Finegan. The Project Arts centre.
SAUCE, Little Bewleys Theatre, Dublin - Directed by Jeda De Bri written by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth.
As a creative I draw on my various disciplines and experiences to make and devise new and exciting work. I like to work collaboratively and feel I am at my best when I’m sharing and experimenting to thrash out ideas. I like to take reality, acknowledge it, twist it, abstract it and amplify it to make something special and almost always over the top. I’m often inspired by images, sounds, film and music both old and new. I am a multidisciplinary artist and Theatre Maker. I consider myself a visual storyteller, I use music, text, movement and theatrics to create things. My ambition is to continue to make meaningful contemporary performance work that has its own aesthetic and doesn’t fit a traditional mould.
More recently I have been developing a writing practice which is allowing me a new entry point into the making process, to interrogate social norms & culture, expose inequalities and sift for gold.
DANCEHALL
DANCEHALL is a new show in collaboration with Sound Designer & Composer Alma Kelliher. A meditation on Dance in Ireland, its death and its resurrection. A spectacle of hearty music and dance through a nuanced contemporary theatre making lens. Expect diamontés, fizzy orange, giddy lights and nostalgia. Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, K-FEST & Siamsa Tire – The National Folk Theatre of Ireland.
Created in collaboration with cast
Sound Designer & Performer: Alma Kelliher | Dance Artist: Sibéal Davitt | Dance Artist: Carol O’Connor | Voice Over’s by: Eileen O’Connor & Evelyn Kelliher | Sound Engineer: Chris Somers | Production Support: Mikey Griffin | Set Consultation by: Sarah Foley | Set installations created by: Jade O’Connor | Filmed by: Rob Noonan (twisted Vision) | Supported by: The National Folk Theatre of Ireland Siamsa Tire, KFEST Music & Arts Festival, Commissions Award recipient - Arts Council of Ireland.
Ongoing research & Development: It’s a post-dancehall era, a time where the halls we used to dance in are dying. I am interested in exploring dance and music in Ireland. Collecting stories, images and footage has become part of my ongoing research and development of this work. It feels more important than ever to get people back into their bodies and into the halls and I want to create that arena, that atmosphere. Somewhere safe to come together and dance. In this non-traditional theatre work we encourage the audience onto their feet, that behaves as a catalyst to bring them out dancing, we perform on ground level which take the walls away and just lets us be in a space together. I’m interested in putting work on in underutilised spaces such as Basketball halls, community halls, warehouses, schools and broaden the version of traditional dance theatre shows. I am looking for new spaces, places to inhabit. Places to bring to life or to put life back into.Dancing together and maybe even singing together? Connect / reconnect, Decode, shake the rust off and get to the heart of something.
WHITE WASH
If those liquid murmurs got so loud that they bubbled to the surface, could we handle it? ‘White Wash’ examines the inaccuracies of female history, surrenders it, airs it so we can take care of it. Expect stellar performances by carol o connor & ryanlucey and beautiful visuals by Stephen O’Donoghue & Gary Cahillane.
“The basic premise in this world is that our mental cultural template for a POWERFUL PERSON is resolutely male”. Have we allowed ourselves to be white washed? This show is fully loaded with high energy dance, original song, text, sound design and projected visuals shot in the Maherees in Co.Kerry.
HAUS OF FASH HUN by FemmeBizarre
(FemmeBizarre co-directors: Jade O’Connor & Kate Finegan)
“Haus of Fash Hun is completely and utterly cracked – and in the best way. The duo's exaggerated dramatics left the audience in stitches, and the show's core message about fame, materialism and self-worth leaves some semblance of a moral to the onstage antics”
— The IRISH TIMES
Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, The Irish Aerial Centre & Solstice Arts Centre.
A recipient of The Romilly Masters Award, IACC Unlocked Award & Nominated for Best production Ensemble at Dublin Fringe 23
Directed & Co-created by: Eoghan Carrick | Assistant Director Aidan Crowe
Cast: Stephen Kerr, Merlin Stone, Jade O’Connor & Kate Finegan
Co-created by: Jade O’Connor & Kate Finegan
Lighting: Suzie Cummins | Costume & Set Sarah Foley
Stage Manager: Aimee Crilly | Production Manager Maisie Lorimer
Producer: Ailsing Ormande
Composition, design & live music: Stephen Kerr & Jenny O’Malley
NAKED LIGHTS by Jeda De Brí
Galway Film Fleadh 2024.
Choreography / Movement Direction by: Jade O’Connor
Emma is stuck in a dead-end job as a night shift attendant at a petrol station. When a masked stranger arrives one night, threatening to burn the place to the ground, Emma is all that stands in his way
SAUCE Directed by Jeda De Bri
Choreography / Movement Direction by: Jade O’Connor
Supported by the Irish Theatre Institute, Fishamble: The New Play Company, and Dublin Fringe Festival 2019.
Written by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth
Cast: Bláthín Mac Gabhann / Clodagh Mooney Duggan & Camille Lucy Ross
Choreography by Jade O’Connor
“a really funny show that is also very saucy, just not in the way you might expect”
—the Irish Times
CAGED Directed by Jenny Jennings & FemmeBizarre
Dublin Fringe Festival, Irish Aerial Festival & National Tour. Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland & Solstice Arts Centre.
Winner: The Judges Choice award Dublin Fringe 2017
“Caged has a lot of energy and delivers two committed performances from Kate Finnegan and Jade O’Connor”
- The Arts Review
Created & Performed by Jade O’Connor & Kate Finegan
CAGED is an emotional roller coaster through the ages: an unnerving unearthing of the past and a raw discovery of who we are today and yet what we can become. This powerhouse performance gives a visceral insight into what it means to be a woman now.
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER
LOAH UNVEILED
Directed by Ellius Grace
Written by LOAH
Choreography / Movement Direction by: Jade O’Connor
“The video seems to document a slow, determined odyssey toward freedom and space”
-THE THIN AIR