Will O’Connell is a graduate of the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin.
Recent theatre work includes The President (Gate Theatre); The Blackwater Lightship (The Gaiety Theatre); The Last Christmas Dinner (Abbey Theatre); Class (Bush Theatre London, Traverse Theatre Edinburgh Fringe First, Galway Arts Festival, Abbey Theatre, Dublin Theatre Festival); Salò Redubbed (Abbey Theatre / Dublin Theatre Festival); Crossings (Pentabus / New Perspectives); Swansong (Kilkenny Arts Festival); Luck Just Kissed You Hello (HotForTheatre / GIAF / Dublin Theatre Festival); Mother You (Dublin Fringe / Louise White); Way to Heaven (Rough Magic Seeds); Peer Gynt (Rough Magic / Dublin Theatre Festival); Moment and Hue and Cry (Tall Tales); Caligula (Rough Magic Seeds / Dublin Theatre Festival); Macbeth, King Lear and Hamlet (Second Age); The Hairy Ape (Corcadorca); Life Is a Dream (Rough Magic) and Julius Caesar (Abbey Theatre). Will is Associate Artist with The Stomach Box theatre company and has performed in all their works to date: Amnon and Tamar, A Season in Hell and No Worst There Is None (Best Production Irish Times Theatre Awards).
Recent film and TV credits include Hokum (Spooky Pictures / Tailored Films); Anniversary (Lionsgate); Harry Wilde (Acorn TV); The Doll Factory (Paramount +); Top Boy and Queen Charlotte (Netflix); Moonhaven (AMC); Miss Scarlet and the Duke (A+E/Shinawil); Little Women (BBC / Playground); Detainment (Twelve Media); Out of Innocence (Defiant Films / Telegael); Red Rock (Element / TV3); Moonfleet (Sky); Game of Thrones (HBO) and Parked (Grand Pictures).