Director

Colm
Summers

(he/him)

Colm Summers is a director from Waterford, Ireland, based between Los Angeles, New York, and Dublin. Selected credits include: The Inheritance (Geffen Playhouse), Portia Coughlan (Abbey Theatre), La Clemenza di Tito (Grand Théâtre de Genève). Colm has worked with The Wooster Group, the feath3r theory, Milo Rau, Dead Centre, and Pan Pan. Read Colm’s essays in Études, Blast at 100 (Brill), and in Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London (Liverpool University Press). As playwright, Colm is published in Fresh Cuts: New Plays from Dublin Fringe (Oberon). He is a Berkeley Rep Ground Floor cohort member, Dublin Fringe Radical Spirit Award Nominee, Dublin Theatre Festival Next Stage cohort member, and Pan Pan International Mentorship mentee. Colm was Resident Director at the National Theatre of Ireland, inaugural Director in Residence at the Geffen Playhouse, and a Resident Performing Artist at BRIClab, Brooklyn. Colm was recently awarded the Irish Arts Council Next Generation Artists Award. He is delighted and grateful to make his Geffen Playhouse debut. www.colmsummers.com

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