Critically acclaimed, award-winning director Sinéad O’Neill is delighted to be making her Longborough debut. Sinéad's work for stage is characterised by distinctive movement, striking imagery, and dynamic musicality. She enjoys creating theatre with one or one hundred performers.
Sinéad’s world premiere production of Uprising by Jonathan Dove and April De Angelis won the RPS Opera and Music Theatre Award 2026. Her original, site-specific promenade performance Precipice at The Grange Festival has been acclaimed for its haunting imagery, ambitious scope and incantatory text.
Sinéad has extensive experience of creating new work, including with her long-time collaborator, composer Matt Rogers, with whom she created Amor Mundi (conceived and written by Zsuzsanna Ardó), The Raven, On the Axis of this World and And London Burned. The Barrington Hippo and On the Axis of this World were showcased at Cambridge Science Festival. She co-created Pay the Piper with composers Ailie Robertson, Cecilia Livingstone, Ninfea Crutwell-Reade and Anna Appleby and writer Hazel Gould for Glyndebourne Youth Opera (2022).
Other directing credits include: The Spectre Knight, Wexford Festival Opera; El gato con botas, L’enfant et les sortilèges, Alcina, The Sofa and Calisto, RIAM, Dublin. Previously for Glyndebourne, Sinéad has directed two BBC Proms, the Glyndebourne Opera Cup with Sky Arts, the 50th Anniversary Gala at Queen Elizabeth Hall, and revivals of Il barbiere di Siviglia and L'elisir d'amore.