Tinuke Craig trained as a director at LAMDA and at the National Theatre Studio. In 2014 she won the Genesis Future Director Award and subsequently directed debbie tucker green's dirty butterfly at the Young Vic. She was the Gate Theatre's Associate Director from 2015-2016. She is also a selector for the National Student Drama Festival and an Education Associate Practitioner at the RSC.

As a director, her work in theatre includes dirty butterfly at the Young Vic; Red Sky at Night for Pentabus / Latitude Festival; Market Boy and Busters at Mountview Academy; Waiting for Lefty at the Theatre Royal Haymarket;and Bound East for Cardiff/In the Zone at LAMDA. 

As an assistant/associate director her work includes wonder.land at the National Theatre, Hamlet and All's Well that Ends Well at the RSC; and The Changeling at the Young Vic.