Selected works
Songs of Lear
Song of the Goat Theatre, 2011–2018
A devised performance combining polyphonic singing, physical theatre and re-imagined fragments of Shakespeare’s King Lear, developed and toured internationally.
Portraits of the Cherry Orchard
Song of the Goat Theatre, 2013–2018
A musical and physical interpretation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, in which character, memory and loss are shaped through voice, movement and poetic structure.
Umiłowanie: Dead Walk Love
Song of the Goat Theatre, 2014–2017
A physical theatre duet inspired by Yukio Mishima’s Patriotism, drawing on Japanese ritual forms, martial discipline and embodied storytelling.
SOMNIUM
Created by James Riordan, Philippa Hambly and Julianna Bloodgood, 2024
A woman at night. A vocal ritual. An invocation. And then to rest. Inspired by the myth of Philomela, the piece explores voice and voicelessness through music, image and body, in the space between night and dawn.
GOL
Brú Theatre / Galway Theatre Festival, 2021
A contemporary performance inspired by Irish female lament traditions, combining song, movement and narrative in a choral female ensemble.
NOX
Solo performance, 2021
A site-specific solo work exploring voice, movement and ritual through the tradition of female death lamenters in Ireland.