Rachel O'Connell
Productions whilst at RADA
- Ortensia
Mirandolina directed by Simona Gonella - Various
Metamorphoses directed by Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu - A
Sticks and Stones directed by Diyan Zora - Antiochus / Pander / Cerimon
Pericles (Shakespeare for Young Audiences) directed by Rachel Bagshaw
- Belinda / Emilia
The Man of Mode (course project) directed by John Baxter - Sir Toby Belch
Twelfth Night (course project) directed by Zoë Waites - Elektra / Chorus
Elektra (course project) directed by Mathew Wernham
Videos
RADA presents Rachel O'Connell's Screen Moment
Special skills
Accents and dialects: good ear for accents - Leeds, French, General American, RP, Edinburgh, Norwegian, Australian, Manchester
RADA Henry Marshall Prize Fights (2023): Most Outstanding Performance Award
Awards: the Sir John Gielgud Charitable Trust Award and the Josephine Hart poetry Foundation Award
Singing: mezzo soprano (highly skilled)
Dance: period, contemporary, swing (basic)
Languages: Irish (intermediate)
Music: guitar (self-taught, basic), ukulele (self-taught, basic)
Driving licence: Irish
Other: improv, playwriting, songwriting, wreath making, flower arranging
Previous experience
Television
Nancy Madigan, The Young Offenders, dir. Tom Marshall, Vico Productions BBC3
Theatre
Effie, Iphigenia in Splott (Irish Premiere), dir. Tracy Ryan, Reality Check Productions, Smock Alley Theatre Dublin
Brigit, Eclipsed, dir. Kate Canning, Mill Theatre Productions Dublin
Lucelita, Coppers the Musical, Verdant Productions, The Olympia / Cork Opera House / UCHL (June / July 2022 / 2020), The Olympia (2018 / 2019)
“B”, Girlplay, dir. Ciara Smyth (May 2020) Smock Alley Theatre Dublin, Dublin Fringe fest (Sept 2019)
Pegeen Mike, Playboy of the Western World, dir. Kate Canning, The Mill Theatre Dublin
Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet, dir. Geoff O’ Keefe, Mill Theatre Productions Dublin
Marty, Grease the Musical, dir. Bryan Flynn, Cork Opera House
Katie, Big Maggie, dir. Pat Talbot, The Everyman Theatre Cork
Sarah Browne, Guys and Dolls, dir. Raymond Hawthorne, Auckland Theatre Company
Rose / Stella, The Sunbeam Girls (co-writer), dir. Marion Wyatt, Cork Opera House
Louise, Private Lives, dir. Mary Curtin, The Everyman Theatre Cork
Tina, The Good Sisters, dir. Marion Wyatt, The Everyman Theatre Cork
Polly Garter / Gossamer Beynon, Under Milk Wood, dir. Marion Wyatt, The Everyman Theatre Cork
Nurse, The Sunshine Boys, dir. Pat Talbot, The Everyman Theatre Cork
Woman, Death of a Salesman, The Everyman Theatre / Belgrade Serbia
Elaine, The Calendar Girls, dir. Mary Curtin, The Everyman Theatre Cork
Julia / Irena / Woman / Girl / Madame Sonya Cherdyakov, The Good Doctor, dir. Dolores Mannion, Cork Arts Theatre