Atri joined the Gate in 2023 to support the development of a new business plan as Creative Associate, and now as Artistic Lead he is responsible for the curation of our artistic programming, supporting artists to deliver their best work and keep art at the heart of our strategy.

Atri’s directing credits for the Gate include Scenes for the Climate Era at the Playground Theatre and This Room, Now on screen. His other credits include Look Back in Anger (Almeida), Julius Caesar (RSC), The Glass Menagerie (Royal Exchange and UK tour), SHED: EXPLODED VIEW, Hobson’s Choice (both Royal Exchange), Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith), Kes (Bolton Octagon/Theatre by the Lake), HARM (Bush Theatre), Dracula (National Youth Theatre), Into the Woods (BOVTS), Europe (LAMDA). He also directed HARM as a film for the BBC Lights Up season on BBC Four.

Atri received the 2022-24 Peter Hall Bursary at the the National Theatre. In 2022, he was named in The Stage as one of “25 theatre-makers to watch out for over the next quarter-century and beyond”. In 2019, for Hobson’s Choice, he won The Stage Debut Award for Best Director and was nominated for the UK Theatre Award for Best Director.

His translation of Pier Lorenzo Pisano’s Carbon was selected for a 2023 honour by Eurodram, the European network for drama in translation, and was included in the Methuen Drama Anthology of Contemporary Italian Plays alongside his translation of Ubah Cristina Ali Farah’s Antigone Power.

He is a trustee for the Regional Theatre Young Directors’ Scheme (RTYDS) and The Marlowe Theatre, and was previously Trainee Director at the Royal Exchange and a Resident Director at the Almeida.