David Horan

David is the Artistic Director of the famous Bewley’s Café Theatre in Dublin. He is also a freelance director and an award winning writer.

He directed Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s play This Beautiful Village, which premiered to a sold out run in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. The play will return to the Abbey and embark on a national tour in 2020. His play Class, co-written and directed with Iseult Golden, won Best Theatre Script, ZeBBie Awards from the Writers Guild of Ireland and an Edinburgh Fringe First Award.  Other writing credits include Belonging to Laura, a contemporary film adaptation of Lady Windermere’s Fan (Accomplice/TV3) and The Importance of Being Whatever, an adaption of Earnest (IFTA Winner 2012).

His directing credits include: Beowulf: the Blockbuster (Edinburgh Fringe Stage Award, IAC New York, NY Times Critic’s Pick), These Halcyon Days (Edinburgh Fringe First Winner/DTF 2012), Moment (Bush Theatre, London), Moll (Gaiety, MCD/Verdant Productions), Pineapple (Calipo/DTF), Hue and Cry (IAC New York Times Critics Pick, Bewleys), Macbeth, Dancing at Lughnasa (Second Age), Anglo the Musical (re-envisaged for the Olympia), In The Pipeline (Paines Plough/Oran Mor Theatre, Glasgow), The Death of Harry Leon (Winner of the Stewart Parker Award for Best New Play 2009), Peter Pan (Pavilion Theatre @ Christmas), and the award-winning Tick my Box! (Inis Theatre).