Biography
Niall Fallon is a director, creative producer, and doctoral researcher, specialising in movement direction, dramaturgy, and ensemble-based performance. Niall works across opera, physical theatre, and interdisciplinary performance, where his credits include large institutions such as the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Real Madrid, the Dutch National Opera, and the Salzburger Festspiele.
Alongside this, his independent work has taken him across tours of India, East Asia and Europe, through founding award-winning devising theatre companies for Fringe Festivals (including Edinburgh and Brighton - Best of Fringe Award). He is also the regular stage director of Cabaret Cravache Berlin. Based mostly between Berlin and England, he previously held the position of Choreographer and Director of Studio at the Berlin Opera Academy and trained at LISPA, The University of Kent, and Rose Bruford College, London. Earlier positions include being a guest director at Capa Wakefield, a puppeteer in Trigger’s The Hatchling, and a senior lecturer at Performer’s College, Birmingham.
At East 15, University of Essex, he is currently conducting an AHRC CHASE Award-funded PhD, investigating the performer's face as a compositional and ethical instrument in an age when the human face is datafied and algorithmically reproduced at scale.
His work focuses on merging physical theatre with interdisciplinary practices, using visual poetry as a means to question society, stretching metaphors and our capacity to empathise through experimental performance making. Often combining physical collage, site-specific work, opera, clown, and film with theatre anthropology, alongside providing speech and voice coaching for professionals in film, theatre, digital media, advocacy, and diplomacy.
He has been a guest speaker at the Colloquium Festival Belgium, a conference on "(New) dancing epidemics: dance by/for all?" in Charleroi, for his paper “The Grammar In The Dance - Object Embodiment in Sacred-Oriented Performance and the Erosion of Tacit Knowledge”. He has also been awarded DYCP grants from Arts Council England for his project ‘Re-inventing Site Specific Work For A New Age’.
His specialism is in the topics of ensemble sensitivity, conceptualisation/visualisation of performance and theatre anthropology.
2025-2029 | PhD Doctoral Researcher | AHRC CHASE award funded | East 15 | University of Essex
2026 | Cabaret Cravache | Ballhaus | Director
2026 | Der Schatzgräber | Deutsche Oper Berlin
2025 | Fedora | Ivan | Deutsche Oper Berlin
2025 | Francesca da Rimini | Deutsche Oper Berlin
2026 | Artistic Director | The Playhouse Berlin
2025 | Animal Farm | Director | CAPA UK
2025 | Akhnaten | Actor | Barrie Kosky | Komische Oper Berlin
2025 | Guest speaker at conference Gestes et processus dans les arts de la marionnette | The Miniature Box paper | Strasbourg University
2024 | Elysian | Artistic Director | The Playhouse Berlin
2024 | The Hatchling | Puppeteer | Trigger Stuff
2024 | Sins of the Past | Actor (Lead) | Met Film
2024 | CAPA College | Guest Educator | Drama and Theatre
2024 | Guest speaker at Colloquium Festival Belgium | The Grammar In The Dance paper | Charleroi
2024 | Der Ring Des Nibelungen | Actor | Deutsche Oper | Stefan Herheim
2024 | Becoming Anima | Co-creator, Performer | SomaKlang Festival | Berlin
2023 | Orfeo Ed Eurydice | Assistant Director | Salzburger Festspiele | Christof Loy, Cecilia Bartoli
2023 | Das Wunder der Heliane | Actor | Deutsche Oper | Christof Loy
2023 | Arabella | Actor | Teatro Real Madrid | Christof Loy
2023 Re-inventing Site Specific Work For A New Age | Project Leader | Arts Council England | DYCP
2022 | Königskinder | Dancer | Dutch National Opera | Christof Loy
2022 | Der Schatzgräber | Deutsche Oper | Christof Loy
2022 | Fledermaus | Choreographer | Alte Münze Berlin | Berlin Opera Academy
2022 | Der Zauberflöte | Choreographer | Alte Münze Berlin | Berlin Opera Academy
2022 | Antigone’s Of the Pandemic | Assistant Director | IDFA + Westerkerk, NL | World Opera Lab
2021 | Hansel und Gretel | Choreographer | BOA (Switzerland) | Berlin Opera Academy
2021 | Der Zauerflöte | Choreographer | BOA (Switzerland) | Berlin Opera Academy
2021 | Lonely Hearts | Co-director / Performer | LIVE LDN Barrel Organ | Camden People’s Theatre | *Mentored by Cathy Naden (Forced Entertainment)
2021 | Becoming Anima | Co-director / Performer | OPAF, PAF Berlin
2021 | Abstand Bitte Performance Festival | Co-curator / Co-director | Spinner und Weber, PAF Berlin
2021 | Anthropocosmic | Co-director / Performer | Nau Coclea Spain
2021 | Škoda | Actor | Cobblestone Films | Europe Wide
2021 | Bitch, I love you (Sonic Opera) | Musician / Performer | Resonance FM.
2020 | Artist in Residence | Nau Coclea Spain
2020 | Integrated Movement and music research | Artist | Tanz Fabrik Berlin / Nau Coclea
2019 | Artist in Residence | Nau Coclea Spain
2019 | Artist in Residence | Destelheide Belgium
2019 | Gut Buddies | Co-director / Performer | Bacterial Factory | National Tour of India along with Brighton Fringe, IYAF Kingston and Edinburgh Fringe 2019 | *Award Winner of Best of Brighton Fringe Award 2019
2019 | The Whilst Walking Theatre Festival | Co-director / Performer | The Collaborators | National Tour of India
2019 | The Elephant’s Workshop | Director / Performer | Destelheide Belgium
2018 | Dancing with the Shadows | Deviser / Performer | Julia Van de Hof | English Theater Berlin
2016 - 2017 | Jack and the Beanstalk | Actor | White Horse Theater | Tour Germany