Kirsty Housley – Director

Current and future credits include: Avalanche (Barbican – dramaturg); Tao of Glass (Manchester International Festival), Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran (Traverse – co-creator). Theatre works include: I’m a Phoenix, Bitch (Battersea Arts Centre, touring – co-director), Grimm Tales (Unicorn); The Distance (Roundhouse); Misty (Bush Theatre/West End – dramaturg); The Believers Are But Brothers (Bush Theatre, Ovalhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse Transform17 season and Northern Stage Edinburgh – co-director); Myth (RSC – co-written with Matt Hartley) The Encounter (Complicité, EIF, Warwick Arts Centre, Theatre Vidy, Bristol Old Vic, UK tour – co-director); A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer (dramaturg, National Theatre and Complicité, director – international tour); Wanted (Chris Goode and Company, Transform Festival, West Yorkshire Playhouse); Walking the Tightrope (Offstage and Theatre Uncut); All I Want (Live Theatre, Leeds Libraries and Jackson’s Lane); Mass (Amy Mason at Bristol Old Vic, Camden People’s Theatre); The Beauty Project, Theatre Uncut 2012 (Young Vic); How to Be Mortal (Penny Dreadful at Soho and tour); Bandages (Corn Exchange Newbury and tour); 9 (West Yorkshire Playhouse for Chris Goode and Company); Thirsty (The Paper Birds). Kirsty has been the recipient of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award and the Title Pending award for innovation at Northern Stage. She is an associate of Complicité and working with a number of independent artists.