About SevenThirty

Founded in 2004, by John P. Kelly, with the assistance of Alan Dean and Andrea Cochrane, SevenThirty has presented to date thirteen successful plays and is fast developing a name for itself as a home of high quality production values, with innovative use of production spaces.

SevenThirty's first production was Eugene O'Brien's Eden, staged at the Mercury Lounge on the Byward Market.

This was followed by Jimmy Murphy's The Kings of the Kilburn High Road, for which the upstairs lounge at The Pour House Bar/Auld Dubliner was adapted to create a multi-level playing area.

Then, in 2007, the Ottawa School of Speech and Drama became several spaces from Belfast to New York City, for Marie Jones's wonderful piece A Night in November. This production was so successful that a remount was quickly arranged at the larger Arts Court Theatre in the centre of Ottawa.

In June 2007, John P. Kelly directed four separate plays at the Ottawa Fringe Festival:

And in November 2007, SevenThirty inaugurated the studio space at the new Irving Greeberg Theatre Centre, with their hugely successful production of Christian O'Reilly's The Good Father.

In 2008, SevenThirty presented Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel and Iron by Rona Munro.

Then the company settled in for a season at The Gladstone with Catalpa by Donal O'Kelly, a remount of The Kings of the Kilburn High Road by Jimmy Murphy, and The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh. John P. Kelly directed all three shows in addition to two more for The Gladstone, How The Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn and Doubt by John Patrick Shanley.

2009 marked a return to Arts Court, where SevenThirty scored another artistic success with Conor McPherson's Shining City.

John P Kelly also directed the hugely successful opener to the second season at the Gladstone, Michael Frayn's Noises Off.

It it now 2010, five years have quickly passed and John has just completed another show for Gladstone productions, Italian American Reconciliation by John Patrick Shanley.

That makes fourteen shows for SevenThirty—thirteen Irish and one Scottish—all directed by John P. He has also directed four more for Gladstone Productions.

And now SevenThirty is about to embark on its biggest venture yet, the glorious farce by Georges Feydeau, A Flea in her Ear. See Upcoming Production for details.