Flo O'Mahony
Theatre Director Creative Access Consultant DramaturgFlo is a theatre director, specialising in creating work with access creatively integrated. She most frequently works with deaf, neuro-diverse and disabled artists, and is a competent BSL signer, experienced in creating bilingual shows with integrated sign language and Visual Vernacular.
Flo is a highly visual maker, passionate about weaving access into her directing process and productions. She is experienced in working within devising settings, workshopping new productions, adapting for stage, and directing new writing.
Flo is also a passionate community arts practitioner and director of youth-led work, specialising in using co-creation methodologies with young people to devise new work.
Flo has directed works for NT connections, including participating in training for facilitators by Company Three. They are a lead practitioner for young people as part of Croydon Borough of Culture, and are currently co-creating 4 unique productions with Croydon young people from 11-18 years old, including the Zoo Co Young Company.
Credits
Previous directing and project credits include:Director:
Manimals - (UK and Canada digital tour)
Sirens (Pleasance, UK Tour) Winner of the Three Week's Editor's Choice Award 2019
Messy (UK Tour, in partnership with ADHD Foundation)
Different Owners at Sunrise (Roundhouse)
Night Shift (Zoo Co), co-directed with Brian Duffy
Delight in the Woods (National Trust)
Associate Director:
Rise of the Refrain @ Stanley Arts
Follow The Signs @ Soho Theatre
Lead facilitator:
Perfect Show For Rachel @ Barbican (2022) - Winner of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award.
Assistant Director:
Inside Pussy Riot @ Saatchi Gallery
Training
Company Three @ NT Studio - working with young peopleAdaptations Workshop @ NT Studio
Radically Inclusive Cultures - Clore Leadership
Fourth Monkey Theatre Company
National Youth Theatre
Location
LondonExperience
10+ years
Art forms / Disciplines
- Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
- Theatre / Live perfomance
What I do
- Access consultancy (including BSL, audio-description and neurodiversity)
- BSL interpretation
- Creative Access
- Devising
- Directing
- Dramaturgy
- Facilitating
- Site Responsive/Immersive
- Theatre making
- Working with Deaf artists
- Working with Deaf non-professional adults / children
- Working with disabled artists
- Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
- Working with learning disabled adults / children
- Working with learning disabled artists
- Working with young people
- Working within a Community / with community participants
- Workshopping & Development
Additional Languages
British Sign Language - competent
