Harry Hennessy  Biography




Email: harry.hennessy@nyu.edu

Instagram: dublinitigirl

Harry Hennessy is a queer writer and Harry Harry Hennessy is a queer writer and performer from Dublin, Ireland.

They completed the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing programme at the Tisch School of the Performing Arts, NYU, in May 2023.

Music from their rap-musical Illumination was featured as a part of a musical revue at the Off-Broadway theater Joe’s Pub that Summer.

Their recent work includes Son of the Land, an immersive work of participatory theatre presented as a part of the Earth Rising Festival at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in September of this year.

Their piece Ar An Dé Deiridh, an Irish language play-with-music, recently completed a tour of South Connemera in June. It was reviewed favourably on tuairisc.ie.

They recently completed a week of development in DublinFringeLab for their latest play, Mo Chac, with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival and the Arts Council of Ireland.
























Illumination

In 1871, established poet Paul Verlaine invited a seventeen year old enfant terrible, Arthur Rimbaud, to join him in Paris from rural France. Over the course of a tumultuous and illict love-affair, they changed the course of each other’s lives, and the course of poetry forever. 

Music by Chris Gierymski. 

Left: Performance of Bright Child from Illumination at the Joe’s Pub Off-Broadway venue in NYC