Atri’s directing credits include Julius Caesar (RSC), The Glass Menagerie, Utopia and Hobson’s Choice (all Royal Exchange), Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith), Kes (Bolton Octagon/Theatre by the Lake), Harm (Bush Theatre) and ERROR ERROR ERROR (Marlowe Theatre/RSC). He also directed Harm as a film for the BBC Lights Up season on BBC Four.
Atri is a recipient of the 2022-24 Peter Hall Bursary from 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. His translation of Pier Lorenzo Pisano’s Carbon was selected for a 2023 honour by Eurodram, the European network for drama in translation.
He is a trustee for the Regional Theatre Young Directors’ Scheme (RTYDS) and was previously Trainee Director at the Royal Exchange and a Resident Director at the Almeida.