Paul Keogan is a set and lighting designer for Theatre, Opera and Dance performances. He studied drama at Trinity College Dublin and Glasgow University and is based in Belfast and Dublin.
Theatre, Opera & Dance
Awards
IRISH TIMES THEATRE AWARD
2019
The Big Chapel X / Blood in the Dirt / The Glass Menagerie
Asylum Productions / Landmark Productions / Gate Theatre, Dublin
Best Lighting Design
IRISH TIMES THEATRE AWARD
2017
Far Away
Corcadorca
Best Lighting Design
Shared with Aedín Cosgrove
UK THEATRE AWARD
2015
The Hudsucker Proxy
Nuffield Theatre / Liverpool Everyman
Best Design
KNIGHT OF ILLUMINATION AWARD
2014
No Man's Land
English National Ballet
IRISH TIMES THEATRE AWARD
2008
Dead Man Walking
Opera Ireland
Best Design
IRISH TIMES THEATRE AWARD
2006
Tejas Verdes / Titus Andronicus
B*Spoke Theatre Company / Siren Theatre Company
Best Lighting Design
IRISH TIMES THEATRE AWARD
1999
Quay West
Bedrock Theatre Company
Best Lighting Design
Credits
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
2026
The MAC, Belfast
Director: Patrick J O’Reilly
Set & Lighting Design
MANSFIELD PARK
2026
Opera Collective
Director: Patrick Mason
FAITH HEALER
2026
Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Director: Emily Jordan
STEEL MAGNOLIAS
2026
Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Director: Emily Foran
POOR
2026
Gate Theatre, Dublin / The Belgrade Theatre
Director: Róisín McBrinn
MIRANDOLINA
2026
Abbey Theatre, Dublin / Italy Tour
Director: Caitríona McLaughlin
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
2025
Adelaide Festival, Australia / Barbican / NYU Skirball Centre, US
Director: Vicky Featherstone
CASSE - NOISETTE
2025
Oper Leipzig, Germany
Director: Kaloyan Boyadjiev
POOR
2025
Gate Theatre, Dublin
Director: Róisín McBrinn
JILLY MORGAN'S BIRTHDAY PARTY
2025
Billable, Limerick
Director: Joan Sheehy
Set & Lighting Design
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
2025
3Olympia Theatre, Dublin
Director: Caroline Byrne
AINADAMAR
2025
LA Opera, US
Director: Deborah Colker
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
2025
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival
Director: Patrick Mason
KING LEAR
2025
The Gate Theatre, Dublin
Director: Roxana Silbert
CASSE - NOISETTE
2024
Opéra de Bordeaux, France
Director: Kaloyan Boyadjiev
KING LEAR
2024
The Shed, USA
Director: Kenneth Branagh & Rob Ashford
OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD
2024
Lyric Hammersmith
Director: Rachel O'Riordan
A HANDFUL OF STARS
2024
Wexford Arts Centre / Pavillion, Dun Laoghaire
Director: Conall Morrison
THE SUGAR WIFE
2024
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Director: Annabelle Comyn
AINADAMAR
2024
Metropolitan Opera New York
Director: Deborah Colker
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
2024
Gate Theatre, Dublin
Director: Caroline Byrne
CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION
2024
Gate Theatre, Dublin
Director: Róisín McBrinn
Set & Lighting Design
FAITH HEALER
2024
Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
Director: Rachel O'Riordan
JILLY MORGAN'S BIRTHDAY PARTY
2024
Belltable, Limerick
Director: Joan Sheehy
Set & Lighting Design
NA PEIRSIGH/PERSIANS
2024
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Director: Connor Hanratty
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
2024
Landmark Productions, Dublin
Director: Vicky Featherstone
LA TRAVIATA
2024
Irish National Opera
Director: Olivia Fuchs
KING LEAR
2023
Wyndham's Theatre, West End
Director: Kenneth Branagh
QUAKE
2023
Dublin Theatre Festival / Mermaid Arts Centre
Director: Conall Morrison
Set & Lighting Design
AINADAMAR
2023
Welsh National Opera
Director: Deborah Colker
HAPPY DAYS
2023
Cork Opera House / 3Olympia, Dublin, Ireland / Birmingham Rep
Director: Caitríona McLaughlin
LOBBY HERO
2023
The Air Academy, Dublin
Director: Annabelle Comyn
MASTERCLASS
2023
Smock Alley Theatre
Director: Conor Hanratty
Set & Lighting Design
FOUNTAIN OF TEARS (AINADAMAR)
2023
Detroit Opera, US
Director: Deborah Colker
TALES FROM THE HOLYWELL
2023
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Director: Conor McPherson
Set & Lighting Design
SEMELE
2022
Kilkenny Arts Festival / Pavillion Theatre Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
Director: Patrick Mason
Set & Lighting Design
GUESTS OF THE NATION
2022
Cork Opera House
Director: Corcadorca Theatre Company
Set & Lighting Design
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
2022
The Lir Academy, Dublin
Director: Joe Dowling
SCANDALTOWN
2022
Lyric Hammersmith
Director: Rachel O’Riordan
THE STEWARD OF CHRISTENDOM
2022
Gate Theatre, Dublin
Director: Louise Lowe
TRANSLATIONS
2022
Lyric Theatre Belfast / Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Director: Caitríona McLaughlin
PORTIA COUGHLAN
2022
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Director: Caroline Byrne
AINADAMAR
2022
Scottish National Opera
Director: Deborah Colker
DOUBT: A PARABLE
2022
Chichester Festival Theatre
Director: Lia Williams
THE TREATY
2021
Fishamble
Director: Conall Morrison
Set & Lighting Design
DUCK DUCK GOOSE
2021
Fishamble
Director: Jim Culleton
Set & Lighting Design
FIDELIO
2021
Irish National Opera
Director: Annabelle Comyn
THE GONDOLIERS/UTOPIA LTD
2021
Scottish National Opera / D'Oyly Carte Opera / State Opera South Australia
Director: Stuart Maunder
WALLS AND WINDOWS
2021
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Director: Jason Byrne
THE NAKED HAND
2021
Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Director: Amanda Coogan
ELEKTRA
2021
Irish National Opera
Director: Conall Morrison
Set & Lighting Design
SEMELE
2021
Opera Collective Ireland
Director: Patrick Mason
Set & Lighting Design
SADIE
2021
Lyric Theatre Belfast / BBC Arts
Director: Conleth Hill
HAPPY DAYS
2021
Landmark Productions
Director: Caitríona McLaughlin
20 SHOTS OF OPERA
2020
Irish National Opera
SHIRLEY VALENTINE
2020
Lyric Theatre Belfast
Director: Patrick J O'Reilly
Set & Lighting Design
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE
2020
Lyric Hammersmith
Director: Rachel O’Riordan
I THINK WE ARE ALONE
2020
Frantic Assembly Tour
Director: Kathy Burke & Scott Graham
BLOOD IN THE DIRT
2019
Landmark Productions
Director: Caitríona McLaughlin
Set & Lighting Design
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
2019
The Mac, Belfast
Director: Sean Kearns
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
2019
Liverpool Everyman
Director: Gemma Bodinetz
SAMA
2019
Rambert
Director: Andrea Miller
CITYSONG
2019
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Director: Caitríona McLaughlin
LOST
2019
Ballet Ireland
Ludovic Ondiviela
BIG CHAPEL X
2019
Asylum Productions, Callan Co Kilkenny
Director: Donal Gallagher
REMOVED
2019
Prime Cut Productions
Director: Emma Jordan
LAST ORDERS AT THE DOCKSIDE
2019
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Director: Graham McLaren
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
2019
Gate Theatre, Dublin
Director: Tom Cairns
THE SNAPPER
2019
Gate Theatre, Dublin
Director: Róisín McBrinn
CYPRUS AVENUE
2019
Royal Court
Director: Vicky Featherstone
POSTCARDS FROM THE LEDGE
2019
Landmark Productions Tour
Director: Jimmy Fay
HAMLET
2018
Gate Theatre, Dublin
Director: Yaël Farber
DOUBLE CROSS
2018
Lyric Theatre, Belfast / Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Director: Jimmy Fay
CYPRUS AVENUE
2018
Abbey Theatre, Dublin / MAC Belfast / Public Theater NY, US
Director: Vicky Featherstone
ON RAFTERY'S HILL
2018
Abbey Theatre
Director: Caitríona McLaughlin
THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS
2018
Lyric Hammersmith
Director: Sean Holmes
THE SNAPPER
2018
Gate Theatre, Dublin
Director: Róisín McBrinn
THE RETURN OF ULYSSES
2018
Opera Collective Ireland
Director: Patrick Mason
Set & Lighting Design
AIDA
2018
Irish National Opera
Director: Michael Barker-Caven
PORCELAIN
2018
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Director: Cathal Cleary
DE PROFUNDIS
2018
Classic Spring Theatre Company
Director: Mark Rosenblatt
LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN
2018
Vaudeville Theatre, West End
Director: Kathy Burke
MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
2018
Irish National Opera
Director: Patrick Mason
POSTCARDS FROM THE LEDGE
2017
Landmark Productions
Director: Jimmy Fay
THE CARETAKER
2017
Bristol Old Vic
Director: Christopher Haydon
KATIE ROCHE
2017
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Director: Caroline Byrne
A SHORT HISTORY OF TRACTORS IN UKRAINIAN
2017
Hull Truck
Director: Mark Babych
FAR AWAY
2017
Corcadorca Theatre Company
Director: Pat Kiernan
Set & Lighting Design
TRIBES
2017
Crucible Studio, Sheffield
Director: Kate Hewitt
SINNERS
2017
Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Director: Mick Gordon
GISELLE
2017
Ballet Ireland
Ludovic Ondiviela
NO MAN'S LAND
2017
Queensland Ballet
Liam Scarlett
THE MISER
2017
Theatre Royal Bath / Garrick Theatre, West End
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
2016
Royal & Derngate / Touring Consortium
Director: James Dacre
THE GAUL
2016
Hull Truck
Director: Mark Babych
FLIGHT
2016
The Lowry
Director: Ballet Rambert
HERE COMES THE NIGHT
2016
The Lyric, Belfast
Director: Jimmy Fay
POWDER HER FACE
2016
Teatro Arriaga Bilboa, Spain
Director: Carlos Wagner
OBSERVE THE SONS OF ULSTER MARCHING TOWARDS THE SOMME
2016
Headlong / Abbey Theatre / Glasgow Citizens / Liverpool Co-Production
Director: Jeremy Herrin
FALSTAFF
2016
Wiener Staatsoper, Germany
Director: David McVicar
BREAKING DAD
2016
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
Director: Jimmy Fay
CYPRUS AVENUE
2016
Royal Court / Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Director: Vicky Featherstone
THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS
2016
Abbey Theatre, Dublin / UK Tour
Director: Sean Holmes
BIG MAGGIE
2016
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
Director: Garry Hynes
SHIBBOLETH
2015
Peacock Stage, Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Director: Hamish Pirie
Set & Lighting Design
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND THE BIG BAD WOLF
2015
The Lyric, Belfast
Director: Paul Bosco McEneaney
Set & Lighting Design
MATCH BOX
2015
Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland
Director: Joan Sheehy
Set & Lighting Design
CHRISTMAS EVE CAN KILL YOU
2015
The Lyric, Belfast
Director: Dan Gordon
Set & Lighting Design
THE HUDSUCKER PROXY
2015
Nuffield Theatre / Liverpool Everyman
Director: Simon Dormandy /Toby Sedgwick
THE GIRL WHO BELIEVED IN MAGIC
2015
Project Arts Dublin
Director: Julie Feeney
MACBETH
2015
Tara Arts
Director: Jatinder Verma
LOST
2015
Ballet Ireland
Director: Ludovic Ondiviela
LA BOHEME/EUGENE ONEGIN
2015
Grange Park Opera
Director: Stephen Medcalf
SAMSON ET DELILA
2015
Grange Park Opera
Director: Patrick Mason
BLASTED
2015
Sheffield Theatres
Director: Richard Wilson
THE WALWORTH FARCE
2015
Olympia Theatre / Landmark Productions
Director: Sean Foley
BREAKING DAD
2015
Cork / Dublin / Landmark Productions
Director: Jimmy Fay
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
2014
Gate Theatre, Dublin
Director: Michael Barker-Caven
BORSTAL BOY
2014
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
Director: Conall Morrison
OUR FEW AND EVIL DAYS
2014
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Director: Mark O’Rowe
CASSANDRA
2014
Royal Opera House, Linbury
Ludovic Ondiviela
TALE OF TWO CITIES
2014
Royal & Derngate
Director: James Dacre
HEARTBREAK HOUSE
2014
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Director: Róisín McBrinn
INTO THE WOODS
2014
The Lir Academy, Dublin
Director: Tom Creed
NO MAN’S LAND
2014
English National Ballet / Barbican
Liam Scarlett
BREAKING DAD
2014
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
Director: Jimmy Fay
AFTERPLAY
2014
Sheffield Crucible Studio
Director: Róisín McBrinn
THE QUEEN OF SPADES
2014
Grange Park Opera
Director: Peter Relton (Revival) & Anthony McDonald (Original)
DON QUICHOTTE
2014
Grange Park Opera
Director: Charles Edwards
TWELFTH NIGHT
2014
Liverpool Everyman Playhouse
Director: Gemma Bodinetz
THE EPIC ADVENTURES OF NHAMO THE MANYIKA WARRIOR AND HIS SEXY WIFE CHIPO
2014
Tiata Fahodzi / UK Tour
Director: Lucian Msamati
BREAK
2013
HotForTheatre / Dublin Festival Fringe
Director: Veronica Coburn
Set & Lighting Design
THE EPIC ADVENTURES OF NHAMO
2013
Director: Lucian Msamati
THE MANYIKA WARRIOR AND HIS SEXY WIFE CHIPO
2013
Tricycle Theatre
Director: Tiata Fahodzi
MARIA DE BUENOS AIRES
2013
Cork Opera House
Director: Conor Hanratty
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
2013
Gate Theatre, Dublin
Director: Ethan McSweeny
MIXED MARRIAGE
2013
Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Director: Jimmy Fay
IL CAPPELLO DI PAGLIA DI FIRENZE/THERESE LA NAVARRAISE/CHRISTINA, REGINA DI SVEZIA
2013
Wexford Festival Opera
HANSEL AND GRETEL
2013
Royal Opera House, Linbury
Director: Liam Scarlett
THE MISANTHROPE
2013
Liverpool Playhouse Theatre / ETT
Director: Gemma Bodinetz
DRUM BELLY
2013
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Director: Sean Holmes
EUGENE ONEGIN
2013
Grange Park Opera / Nevill Holt
Director: Stephen Medcalf
CARMELITES
2013
Grange Park Opera
Director: John Doyle
PREVIOUS THEATRE
ROMEO & JULIET | Director: Pat Kiernan | Cork Opera House, Ireland/ Corcadorca Theatre Company
CINDERELLA THE MIDNIGHT PRINCESS | Director: Rachel Kavanaugh | Rose Theatre Kingston
THE LAST SUMMER | Director: Toby Frow | Gate Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE | Director: Patrick Mason | Gate Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
BEFORE IT RAINS | Director: Roisin McBrinn | Bristol Old Vic
LA BOHÉME | Director: Stephen Langridge | Angers Nantes Opera, France/ Nationale Reisopera, The Netherlands
DA | Director: Toby Frow | Gate Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
BIG MAGGIE | Director: Garry Hynes | Druid Theatre Tour
SCHEHERAZADE & 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS | Director: Morgann Runacre-Temple | Ballet Ireland Tour
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE | Director: Gemma Bodinetz | Liverpool Everyman Playhouse
B FOR BABY | Director: Mikel Murfi | Abbey Theatre Dublin/ UK Tour
THE WINTER’S TALE | Set and Lighting Design | Director: Pat Kiernan | Cork Opera House, Ireland/ Corcadorca Theatre Company co-production
MOLLY SWEENEY | Set and Lighting Design | Director: Patrick Mason | Gate Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS | Director: Jimmy Fay | Abbey Theatre Dublin, Ireland
REQUEST PROGRAMME | Set and Lighting Design | Director: Pat Kiernan | Corcadorca Theatre Company, Ireland
THE STOCK DA’WA | Director: Kathy Burke | Hampstead Theatre, Michael Frayn Space
BETWEEN FOXROCK AND A HARD PLACE | Director: Jimmy Fay | Landmark Productions
NO ROMANCE | Set and Lighting Design | Director: Wayne Jordan | Peacock, Abbey Theatre
PENELOPE | Director: Mikel Murfi | Druid Theatre Tour
GOD OF CARNAGE | Director: Alan Stanford | Gate Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
YERMA | Director: Róisín McBrinn | West Yorkshire Playhouse
NOVECENTO | Director: Róisín McBrinn | Donmar Warehouse season at Trafalgar Studios
OPERA AND DANCE
IDOMENEO | Director: Charles Edwards | Grange Park Opera
THE QUEEN OF SPADES | Director: Antony McDonald | Grange Park Opera
UNE EDUCATION MANQÉE/LA CAMBIALE DI MATRIMONIO | Director: Roberto Recchia | Wexford Festival Opera
MARIA PADILLA | Director: Marco Gandini | Wexford Festival Opera
THEATRE
BOSS GRADY’S BOYS | Set and Lighting Design | Director: Jim Culleton | Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL | Director: Joshua Edelman | Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, Landmark Productions
THE CRUCIBLE | Director: Timothy Sheader | Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park