Kilian O'Callaghan (born 1963) is a male ballet dancer, choreographer and education administrator from Monkstown, County Cork, Ireland.
O'Callaghan grew up in Monkstown, a village near the city of Cork, Ireland,[1] and attended secondary school at St Francis College Rochestown.
[2] In 1982 O'Callaghan joined the Scottish Ballet, touring the UK and continental Europe, Turkey, Hong Kong, Western Australia,[3] and South Carolina, and performing in a range of classic ballets, including Peter Darrell's Carmen, Cinderella, The Nutcracker, Tales of Hoffmann and Giselle, and in Cranko's Romeo and Juliet, and Bournonville's La Sylphide, as well as La Ventana (Pas de trois), and Napoli (Pas de six, Ballabile).
[3] Touring New Zealand, Australia, the USA and Europe, he performed in a wide range of roles, including Hamlet (choreography by Jonathan Taylor) in the title role, Mozart in Wolfgang Amadeus (Gray Veredon), the Prince in The Nutcracker and in Cinderella (Jack Carter), as Albrecht in Giselle, as James and Gurn in La Sylphide (Bournonville), and as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (Malcolm Burn).
[1] He also performed leading roles in Pineapple Poll (Cranko), The Four Temperaments (Balanchine), Troy Game (Robert North), Les Sylphides (Fokine), Oscar Wilde in The Season of Sorrow (Garth Welch), and as Silvio in A Servant of Two Masters (Gray Veredon).