Client details

Abbey Wright

Director

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Agent
Giles Smart
Assistant: Andy Gout
+44 (0)20 3214 0934
About

Abbey was Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse for 18 months from 2008-09, during which time she worked with such notable directors as Michael Grandage, Alan Rickman, Jeremy Herrin, Peter Gill, Sean Holmes, Peter Gill, Jamie Lloyd and John Tiffany.

Her most recent production, THE ONES THAT FLUTTER by Syvia Reed, played at Theatre 503 in September 2009 following a staged reading with the Donmar.

Education and Training

National Theatre Studio Directors' Course (Jun 2009)

MA Acting (with writing and directing options) - East 15 Acting School (2005)

BA Hons English - Oxford University (graduating 2002)

National Youth Theatre

Theatre
ProductionCompanyNotes
AS DIRECTOR
LATE SHOW
(2010)
Public Address

by Iain Weatherby
Development reading

HIDDEN GLORY
(2010)
Lowry Theatre, Salford / National Tour

by Georgina Ferry

SOMEWHERE CLOSE ALWAYS
(2010)
Hampstead Theatre: Start Night and development reading

by Martyn Hesford

CONFUSIONS
(2010)
Theatre Royal Haymarket Young Company

by Alan Ayckbourn

ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS
(2009)
Old Vic Productions / Michael McCabe

by Maxwell Anderson
Reading

LA FAUSSE MONNAIE
(2009)
Theatre 503: All I Want For Christmas (collection of short plays)

by Rex Obano

MUSIC
(2009)
Hampstead Theatre

by Jane Bodie; reading

HARD TALK
(2009)
Hampstead Theatre: Start Night

by Georgina Burns

THE ONES THAT FLUTTER
(2009)
Theatre 503

by Sylvia Reed

RESTORATION SKETCH SHOW
(2007)
Theatre Royal Haymarket
THE GAY MAN'S GUIDE
(2007)
Drill Hall
ON RED HILL
(2006)
Tabard Theatre
MASHA AND THE BEAR
(2005)
White Bear Theatre / Tabard Theatre
DELICATE SPIN
(2002)
Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford
AS ASSISTANT / ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
BE NEAR ME
(2009)
Donmar Warehouse / National Theatre of Scotland & Tour

adapted by Ian McDiarmid (based on the novel by Andrew O'Hagan); as Assistant Director; directed by John Tiffany

THE FAMILY REUNION
(2008)
Donmar Warehouse

by T S Eliot; as Resident Assistant Director; directed by Jeremy Herrin

CREDITORS
(2008)
Donmar Warehouse

by August Strindberg (adapted by David Grieg); as Resident Assistant Director; directed by Alan Rickman

PIAF
(2008)
Donmar Warehouse

by Pam Gems; as Resident Assistant Director; directed by Jamie Lloyd

THE CHALK GARDEN
(2008)
Donmar Warehouse

by Enid Bagnold; as Resident Assistant Director; directed by Michael Grandage

SMALL CHANGE
(2008)
Donmar Warehouse

as Resident Assistant Director; written and directed by Peter Gill

THE MAN WHO HAD ALL THE LUCK
(2008)
Donmar Warehouse

by Arthur Miller; as Resident Assistant Director; directed by Sean Holmes

THE COUNTRY WIFE
(2007)
Theatre Royal Haymarket

by William Wycherley; as Assistant Director; directed by Jonathan Kent

ON A DAY IN SUMMER IN A GARDEN
(2007)
King's Head Theatre

by Don Howarth; as Assistant Director; directed by Marc Urquhart

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