Costume Designer

Joan O’Clery

Selected credits

  • Four Mothers Port Pictures/Portobello Productions
  • The InheritancePeer Pressure Productions/ Channel 5
  • Kin Series 1Headline Pictures/BRON
  • ReunionLandmark/ Galway IAF/ Gaiety Theatre
  • Walking with Ghosts Landmark Productions/ Dublin/ West End/ Broadway
  • Dating Amber Tilted Pictures
  • The Delinquent SeasonParallel Film Productions
  • Tarrac!Icebox Films
  • Rose Plays JulieSamson Films
  • Finding Joy (Series 1 & 2)Treasure Entertainment/Acorn Media

About

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 Ghost(Landmark Productions/ Dublin/ West End) which transferred to Broadway in late 2022 , Na Peirsigh / PersiansJoyce’s Women (Abbey Theatre), The Pull of the StarsThe 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.

Featured work

Four Mothers

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

The Inheritance

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

Kin

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

Reunion

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

Walking with Ghosts

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

 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★  The Daily Mail

Dating Amber

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

Ghosts

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

 

Joyce's Women

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 Steward of Christendom

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

Rose Plays Julie

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

The Delinquent Season

Production Company
Parallel Film

Producers
Ruth Coady, Alan Maloney

Director
Mark O’Rowe

Cast
Cillian Murphy, Andrew Scott, Eva Birthistle, Catherine Walker

Finding Joy

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

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