Aidan O’Reilly

Headshot of Aidan O’Reilly, actor and director at the American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse.
Director

Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA).

Fall 2025 Season:

Director for The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

PREVIOUSLY WITH ASC:

34 productions with the ASC. Favorites include: Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Jaques in As You Like It, Master Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Player King in Hamlet, Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lucio in Measure for Measure, Bertram in All’s Well That Ends Well, Malcolm in Macbeth, Trinculo in The Tempest, Pharamond in Philaster, Foresight in Love for Love, Dracula in Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors.

OTHER THEATRES:

Other credits include: Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Prague Shakespeare Company), Richard in Richard III (Marin Shakespeare Company), Marcus Brutus in Julius Caesar (Sonoma Valley Shakespeare Company), Mysterious Man in Into the Woods (Arkansas Repertory Theatre), Feste in Twelfth Night (Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre), Macbeth in Macbeth (Studio Theatre of Little Rock), Feste in Twelfth Night, Hamlet in Hamlet (Avalon Players), Antonio Salieri in Amadeus (City Lights Theatre Company}, Fool in King Lear, Caliban in The Tempest, Angelo in The Comedy of Errors, Richard in Richard III (Utah Shakespeare Festival).

O’Reilly served as the Artistic Director of the Renegade Players for which he directed productions of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and King Henry IV Parts One and Two, and as the Artists Director of the Sonoma Valley Shakespeare Company where he directed productions of As You Like It, Doctor Faustus, and The Great Gatsby.

Music:

Album of original music: Pennies Shine (available on Spotify and other streaming services).

FILM:

Writer/Producer, Last Call (Manchester European Short Film Festival, London Independent Film Festival).

AWARDS:

Nomination, Outstanding Performance by an Actor, Principal: Antonio Salieri in Amadeus, City
Lights Theatre Company.

EDUCATION:

BA in Acting with Honors, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), London, UK.

WEBSITE:

www.aidan-oreilly.com

INSTAGRAM:

@aidanroreilly