Kilian O'Callaghan

Kilian O'Callaghan (born 1963) is a male ballet dancer, choreographer and education administrator from Monkstown, County Cork, Ireland. and attended secondary school at St Francis College Rochestown. He started to study Irish dancing at age 4, and ballet at about age 7. the second such bursary after Katherine Lewis in 1978, and a grant from Tony O'Reilly's Fitzwilton Trust towards his second year.

Professional ballet companies In 1982 O'Callaghan joined the Scottish Ballet, touring the UK and continental Europe, Turkey, Hong Kong, Western Australia,

O'Callaghan choreographed two musicals for Stagecraft Theatre in Wellington NZ, and La Traviata for the New Zealand Opera. Also in 2001, he staged excerpts from Swan Lake with Wakatu Dance Theatre, followed by Sleeping Beauty in 2003.

Return to Ireland He returned to Ireland in 2008. He initially worked in quality assurance and then programme management with the Institute of Banking, a recognised college of University College Dublin (UCD), including with the Irish National Youth Ballet, but also with Youth Ballet West, and to choreograph productions; a ballet he choreographed in 2015, Moving On, remains in production also as of 2019. and in 2018 he choreographed and produced a new production of Cinderella for the company. In 2019, O'Callaghan's Nutcracker was due to be performed in Dun Laoghaire.

He is a member of Dance Ireland, and was on the board of Ballet Ireland from 2010 to 2016.