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Video Design for Theatre, Music, Opera & Dance

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The View from Mars (2025)

Contemporary Ballet

Choreographer: Ruaidhrí Maguire
Composer: Amelia Clarkson
Starring Dominic Harrison & David McCann
Six Dance Collective

2025: Lyric Theatre Belfast

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GATMAN! (2024)

Stage play

Writer/Performer: Tadhg Hickey
Director: Sophie Motley
The Everyman Cork

2024: The Everyman Cork, Project Arts Centre Dublin

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Sovereign Bodies/Ritual Taxonomy (2023)

Experimental Jazz

By Adjunct Ensemble / Jamie Thompson
Performed by Felispeaks, Jamie Thompson, Sam Comerford, John Pope & Stephen Davis.
Moving On Music

2023: Crescent Arts Centre Belfast, The Cooler at The Complex Dublin, Café OTO London

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Gutter (2023)

Dance Theatre

By Eileen McClory
Starring Kevin Coquelard
Off The Rails Dance

2023: The MAC Belfast

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White Doves (2023)

Ballet

Choreographer: Ruaidhrí Maguire
Composer: Amelia Clarkson
Performed by Danila Marzilli, Leigh Alderson & High Points Youth Ballet

2023: The MAC Belfast

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I Fall Down (2023)

Promenade Site-Specific Performance

Writer & Co-Creator: Gina Moxley
Director & Co-Creater: John McIlduff
Starring: Gina Moxley, Emily Terndrup, Maria Nilsson Waller, Kath Duggan & Amy Ní Fhearraigh
The Everyman, Cork

2023: Cork Midsummer Festival

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Propaganda: A New Musical (2022)

Musical

By Conor Mitchell
Dir. Conor Mitchell
Starring Darren Franklin, Joanna O'Hare, Oliver Lidert, Celia Graham, Sean Kearns, Matthew Cavan & Rebecca Caine
Belfast Ensemble / The Lyric Theatre, Belfast

2022: Lyric Theatre Belfast

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The White Handkerchief (2022)

Musical

Book and Lyrics by Liam Campbell
Music by Brian O’Doherty
Dir. Kieran Griffiths
The Playhouse Derry

2022: The Guildhall Derry

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A New Topography of Love (2022)

Animated Video-Game Opera Experience

Composed by Brian Irvine
Written & Directed by John McIlduff
Illustrated by Stephen Maurice Graham
Game Design by Adam Whiteside & Vicky Potts, WhitePot

2022: RCC Letterkenny.

2023: Crescent Arts Centre Belfast, RENDR Festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Project Arts Centre Dublin, Other Voices Dingle.

2024: The MAC Belfast, Wexford Town Library

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The Scorched Earth Trilogy (2022)

Video Projection Opera Experience

Composed by Brian Irvine
Written & Directed by John McIlduff
Starring Doreen Curran, Francesco Giusti, Eamonn Mulhall, Owen Gilhooly, Brendan Collins, Megan O'Neill, Nicole White & Maria Nilsson Waller.
Dumbworld/Irish National Opera

2022: Trinity College Dublin.

2023: Culture Night Dublin, Portview Belfast, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Mart Gallery Dublin, Ireland's Edge Dingle.

2024: Costa Rica's International Arts Festival, Kunstfest Weimar Germany

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MASS (2021)

Concert

By Conor Mitchell
Performed by Giselle Allen, Sarah Richmond, Christopher Cull, John Porter & Ulster Orchestra
Belfast Ensemble / Outburst Queer Arts Festival

2021: The Telegraph Building Belfast

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Carnival of Shadows #1:
Possible Human (2021)

Site-Specific Installation

Conceived and created by Brian Irvine and John McIlduff
Dumbworld

2021: Kilkenny Arts Festival

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Shimmer (2021)

Dance Theatre

Dir. Anna Newell
Performed by Anderson de Souza, Hayley Earlam & Jess Rowell
Composed by David Goodell
Choreographed by Hayley Earlam
Anna Newell Theatre Adventures / The Civic Tallaght

2021: The Civic Tallaght, Draíocht Blanchardstown

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Fatal System Error (2020)

Operatic Web Experience

Composed by Brian Irvine
Written by John McIlduff
Programmed by Out of Tune Games
Dumworld

2020: Royal Opera House

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RTÉ Concert Orchestra performs
Leonard Cohen (2020)

Concert

RTÉ Concert Orchestra
with Moncrieff, Lisa Hannigan, Mick Flannery & Suzanne Savage
Producers: Brian Connor & Elizabeth Laragy​

2020: Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Dublin.

2022: Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Dublin.

2024: 3Arena Dublin

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Anything Can Happen 1972 (2020)

Stage play

By Damian Gorman
Dir. Kieran Griffiths
Starring Pat Lynch with Community Cast
The Playhouse Derry

2020: The Playhouse Derry

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All The Things We Are (2020)

Opera Installation

Composed by Brian Irvine
Directed by John McIlduff
Performed by Elizabeth Hilliard, Laura Lamph & Leanne Fitzgerald

2020: The Riverbox at Titanic Slipways Belfast

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Neo Neo #9 (2020)

Experimental Music Performance

Collaboration with Úna Monaghan & Nóirín Nic Alastair
Black Box Belfast

2020: The Black Box Belfast

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Abomination: A DUP Opera (2019)

Opera

By Conor Mitchell
Performed by Rebecca Caine, Matthew Cavan, Christopher Cull, Tony Flynn, John Porter, Sarah Richmond
Belfast Ensemble

2019: Lyric Theatre Belfast.

2022: Electric Picnic, Abbey Theatre Dublin, Lyric Theatre Belfast.

2023: Brighton Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre London

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Removed (2019)

Stage play

By Fionnuala Kennedy
Dir. Emma Jordan
Starring Conor O'Donnell
Prime Cut Productions

2019: Brian Friel Theatre Belfast, Druid Galway, Axis Ballymun.

2020: Suzanne Roberts Theater, Philadelphia.

2023: Bozar Brussels, The MAC Belfast, Adelaide Festival Centre Australia

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The Snapper (2018)

Stage play

By Roddy Doyle
Dir. Roísín McBrinn
Starring Niamh Branigan, Hazel Clifford, Simon Delaney, Hilda Fay, Lauren Larkin, Ellie Mooney, David Murray, Simon O’Gorman, Carmel Stephens & Amilia Stewart
Gate Theatre Dublin

2018: Gate Theatre Dublin.

2019: Gate Theatre Dublin

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The Patient Gloria (2018)

Stage play

By Gina Moxley
Dir. John McIlduff
Starring Gina Moxley, Liv O’Donoghue & Jane Deasy
Abbey Theatre Dublin/Pan Pan

2018: Abbey Theatre Dublin, The Traverse Edinburgh.

2022: Brighton Festival, St Ann's Warehouse New York.

2023: Black Box Galway, The Everyman Cork, Project Arts Centre Dublin

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Street Art Operas (2017)

Video Projection Opera Experience

Composer: Brian Irvine
Writer & Director: John McIlduff
Performed by Doreen Curran, Sylvia O’Brien, Dan Reardon, Amy Ní Fherraigh, Philip Keegan & RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Dumbworld

2017: Culture Night Belfast.

2018: Operadagen Festival Rotterdam, Summerhall Edinburgh, Dublin Fringe Festival.

2019: Waterford Walls Festival, Culture Night Belfast, Albeburgh Festival Suffolk, Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave New York, Sonica Festival Glasgow

2020: The Mermaid Bray, Kunstfest

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Tribes (2017)

Stage play

By Nina Raine
Dir. Oonagh Murphy
Starring Fiona Bell, Gavin Drea, Clare Dunne, Nick Dunning, Grainne Keenan & Alex Nowak
Gate Theatre Dublin

2017: Gate Theatre Dublin

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Anything But Bland (2017)

Concert

Conceived and created by Brian Irvine & John McIlduff
Performed by Ulster Orchestra
Dumbworld

2017: Ulster Hall Belfast

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Green and Blue (2016)

Stage play

By Laurence McKeown
Dir. Paula McFetridge
Starring: James Doran and Vincent Higgins
Kabosh Theatre Company

2016: Belfast International Arts Festival, The Playhouse Derry. 

2017: An Grianán Letterkenny, Féile an Phobhail.

2018: Irish Cultural Centre London.

2019: Bozar Brussels, Summerhall Edinburgh.

2022: Lyric Theatre Belfast.

2023: Galway Theatre Festival, London Irish Centre Camden, Project Arts Centre Dublin

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The Kitchen, The Bedroom, and The Grave (2014)

Stage play

By Donal O'Hagan
Dir. Richard Lavery
Starring: Maggie Cronin, Cillian O'Sullivan, Noel Magee & Jason McLaughlin
Accidental Theatre Company

2014: The Baby Grand Studio at Belfast Opera House

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Planet Belfast (2013)

Stage play

By Rosemary Jenkinson
Dir. Michael Duke
Starring: Conor Grimes, Abigail McGibbon, Tara Lynne O'Neill & Paul Kennedy
Tinderbox Theatre Company

2013: The MAC Belfast

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Marianne Dreams (2012)

Stage play

Adapted by Moira Buffini, based on the novel by Catherine Storr
Dir. Anna Newell
Starring: Susan Davey, Dermott Hickson, Mary Moulds, Rosie McClelland & Paul Lewis-Ferguson
Replay Theatre Company

2012: Lyric Theatre Belfast

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