Joan O’Clery is an award winning costume designer working across Film, TV and Theatre.
Recent credits include Darren Thornton’s feature, Four Mothers starring James McArdle, Fionnula Flanagan and Niamh Cusack which is in official competition for Best Film and premiered at BFI LFF 2024 and The Wolf, The Fox and The Leopard with Director David Verbeek. Her other screen credits include the Irish feature Tarrac!, with Declan Recks directing and Dating Amber with Director David Freyne, for which she was nominated for an IFTA award for Best Costume Design. Joan also designed Mark O’Rowe’s debut feature film The Delinquent Season, starring Cillian Murphy and Andrew Scott, as well as Rose Plays Julie for Samson Films, which was nominated for Best Film at BFI London Film Festival. Her work for TV includes Kin for Headline Pictures/BRON, Finding Joy for RTÉ and period mini series Trial Of The Century.
Joan has a distinguished career across theatre with recent productions including QUAKE (Mermaid Arts Centre), The Saviour (Irish Rep Theatre, NYC/ Pavilion Theatre/Edinburgh FF 2021), Ghosts (Abbey Theatre/ Landmark Productions) Walking with Ghosts (Landmark Productions/ Dublin/ West End) which transferred to Broadway in late 2022 , Na Peirsigh / Persians, Joyce’s Women (Abbey Theatre), The Pull of the Stars, The Steward of Christendom (The Gate Theatre), Iqbal Kahn’s production of Macbeth at Shakespeare’s Globe London, as well as Woyzeck in Winter and The Second Violinist for Landmark productions at the Barbican.
Joan is a three time winner of the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Costume for productions of Peer Gynt, Lolita and The Pinter Festival.
OFFICIAL COMPETITION FOR BEST FILM AT BFI LFF 2024
Production Company
Peer Pressure, Lonesome Pine Productions
Producer
Eric Abraham, Martina Niland, Jack Sidey
Writers
Colin Thornton, Darren Thornton
Director
Darren Thornton
Cast
James McArdle, Fionnula Flanagan and Niamh Cusack
Series 1
Production Company
Port Pictures, Portobello Productions, Screen Ireland
Producer
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Director
Darren Thornton
Cast
Samantha Bond, Jemima Rooper, Robert James-Collier
Series 1
Production Company
BRON Studios, Headline Pictures, Metropolitan Pictures
Producers
James Flynn, Edmund Sampson
Directors
Diarmuid Goggins, Tessa Hoffe
Cast
Ciarán Hinds, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Landmark Productions/ Galway IAF/ Gaiety Theatre
Written by Mark O’Rowe
Directed by Mark O’Rowe
Set Design by Francis O’Connor
Lighting Design by Sinéad McKenna
Costume Design by Joan O’Clery
Sound Design by Aoife Kavanagh
★★★★★ The Irish Times
★★★★★ The Arts Review
★★★★ Financial Times
★★★★ Irish Examiner
Landmark Productions/ Dublin/ West End/ Broadway
Director Lonny Price
Set and Lighting Designer Sinéad McKenna
Costume Designer Joan O’Clery
Sound Designer and Composer Sinéad Diskin
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Telegraph
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Stage
Amazon Prime Video
Nominated IFTA Best Costume Design
Production Company
Tilted Pictures, Atomic 80
Producers
John Keville, Rachael O’Kane
Director
David Freyne
Cast
Barry Ward, Fionn O’Shea, Lola Petticrew
Landmark Productions/ Abbey Theatre
Directed by Mark O’Rowe
Set Designed by Francis O’Connor
Lighting Design by Sinéad McKenna
Costume Design by Joan O’Clery
Sound Design by Aoife Kavanagh
★ ★ ★ ★ The Stage
★ ★ ★ ★ The Irish Times
★ ★ ★ ★ The Financial Times
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Writer: Edna O'Brien
Director: Conall Morrison
Set Design: Sabine Dargent
Costume Design: Joan O'Clery
Lighting Design: Ben Ormerod
Composer: Conor Linehan
Sound Design: Ivan Birthistle
“Edna O’Brien’s powerful play is a fascinating portrait of a fellow writer” The Guardian ****
The Gate, Dublin
Director: Louise Lowe
Writer: Sebastian Barry
Set Designer: Paul Wills
Costume Designer: Joan O’Clery
Lighting Designer: Paul Keogan
Composer and Sound Designer: Philip Stewart
‘Costumes by Joan O’Clery suggest the 1920s, and then the 1930s, with graceful precision. Everything about this production is simultaneously subtle and powerful.’ Irish Independent
Nominated Best Film London Film Festival
Production Company
Desperate Optimists
Producers
David Collins, Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy
Directors
Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy
Cast
Ann Skelly, Aidan Gillen, Orla Brady
Production Company
Parallel Film
Producers
Ruth Coady, Alan Maloney
Director
Mark O’Rowe
Cast
Cillian Murphy, Andrew Scott, Eva Birthistle, Catherine Walker
Series 1 & 2
Production Company
Treasure Entertainment
Producers
Rebecca O’Flanagan, Robert Walpole
Director
Kieron J Walsh
Cast
Amy Huberman, Aisling Bea, David O’Doherty