Katie Mitchell

Katie Mitchell is a theatre and opera director with a career spanning 30 years and over 100 productions in the UK and internationally. She is former Associate Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre and the Royal Court and is a resident director at the Schaubuhne Berlin and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg. Previously she was resident director at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and in 2015, the Stadsschouwburg Theatre in Amsterdam presented a retrospective of her work. She has won numerous awards for her directing and an OBE for services to theatre. She is well known for her work on climate change and her advocacy for women and young people. Opera includes Written on Skin, Lucia di Lammermoor and Theodora (Royal Opera House), Alcina, Trauernacht, Pelléas et Mélisande (Aix-en-Provence Festival), Kát’a Kabanová, Jephtha, Jenůfa (Welsh National Opera) and Le Vin herbé, Al Gran Sole Carico d’Amore and Neither (Berlin State Opera). Theatre includes Bluets, Anatomy of a Suicide(Royal Court), Happy Days, The Cherry Orchard (Deutsches Schauspielhaus), Orlando, Fraulein Julie, Ophelias Zimmer (Schaubuhne Berlin), Cleansed, Waves, Women of Troy, The Seagull, Three Sisters (NT) and Phoenician Women, A Women Killed with Kindness and Easter (RSC). She is Professor of Theatre Directing at Royal Holloway University and Professor of Practice at Central School of Speech and Drama.