Hannah O’Reilly is an Irish actor, Theatremaker, and writer from Galway, with a special interest in devising.

Her work is highly atmospheric, playful in form, and cuts to the heart of characters’ emotions. She enjoys incorporating imagery into her work, using her background in Visual Art and physical theatre. She draws from auto-biographical and universal experiences to explore emotions, relationships, and themes such as feminism, family, and the Climate.

She was a recent participant in the Embodied Creative workshops in The Abbey Theatre, led by Annie Ryan (Corn Exchange). In 2024, she wrote and staged The Wondrous Conveyance of Stella Estrella, and worked with lead artist Conor Kennedy Burke, in the Dublin Theatre Festival Slingshot Residency. She directed and worked as dramaturg on a work in progress for actor and comedian Stephen Colfer. She has been awarded the Strand 2 2023 Theatre Project Award for the development of her play SisterSwan with Once Off Productions, under the guidance of Annie Ryan and Donnachadh O’Briain. In 2022, she directed Peach a shortlisted story for BBC Radio1’s Young Writers Award, and received the Agility Award for her writing. She was a part of the inaugural Abbey Begins writing workshops in 2018, and was awarded the first ever Druid Fuel bursary with her Theatre company ThereisBear in 2014.

Hannah holds a BA in Theatre, with French and English Literature. She is a graduate of Bow Street Screen Acting Academy, and has trained in Theatre styles such as Commedia, Physical Theatre, and Stanislavsky. She is an award winning comedic actress, and has honed her career making original ensemble-based work, as a performer, and director.