Directing
Winner, 2022 BroadwayWorld Miami Metro Award for “Best Direction of a Play”
Named, DC Metro Theatre Arts’ Outstanding Performances of 2018
Winner, V. Browne Irish Prize, Silliman College, Yale University
Nominated, Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, Yale College
Associate Director
Winner, 2024 Lucille Lortel Award for “Outstanding Revival” for Translations by Brian Friel, directed by Doug Hughes.
Producing
Winner, 2020 Tony Award for Best Play, The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez, directed by Stephen Daldry (Co-Producer)
Winner, 2018 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, Once on this Island by Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty, directed by Michael Arden (Co-Producer)
Two by Friel
“Contrasts between innocence and experience exist between the plays and within each one, and are highlighted, under Bagley’s careful and affectionate direction, by the lovely performances here, by turns playful and poignant.”
Elysa Gardner, NY Stage Review
"Beautifully directed by Conor Bagley on the W.Scott McLucas Studio Stage, 'Two by Friel' is a necessary, and I mean necessary, theatrical experience.... 'Two By Friel' is a must-see. Theatre is ephemeral, so enjoy every moment, every joy, every heartbreak in this glorious production, while it lasts."”
Lisa Del Rosso, One Magazine
“Director Conor Bagley seems to have chosen his pieces for their poignant quality: In both playlets, romantic love is seen through tears.... if you have a taste for the bittersweet, there is serious and quiet pleasure to be had in that tiny room: Some tempests are best seen in teapots.”
Helen Shaw, Time Out
"Friel wrote Lovers: Winners (1967) and The Yalta Game (2001) decades apart. […] However, the excellent Bagley has made the plays cohere with a clever bridge, lightly securing them with a narrative device. […] How Bagley fashions and melds the two plays together just takes one’s breath away. The acting ensemble is extraordinary. Shepherded by Bagley, his economically staged direction enhances their creation of life and ineffable soulfulness. Indeed, Bagley does his hero Friel justice in these superlative renderings.”
Carole di Tosti, Blogcritics.com