Loveday Ingram
Director
Film, TV & Theatre
Film, TV & Theatre
Loveday is a theatre director and adapter who has directed plays in the West End, for the RSC and regionally throughout the UK and internationally, several of which have been nominated and won awards. These include her adaptation of The Rover for the RSC, My One and Only and Pal Joey for Chichester Festival Theatre, and Boston Marriage and Hysteria in Dublin. She was Associate Director at Chichester Festival Theatre for three years and has directed arts festivals.
She recently directed the world premier of a new Frank McGuinness play, Dinner With Groucho, which headlined the Dublin Theatre Festival and Belfast International Festival to critical acclaim.
Alongside theatre work she has produced, written and directed a short film with which was selected to represent Women’s Aid internationally for the campaign for Elimination of Violence Against Women in 2020 and has since been commissioned to adapt and direct a six-part TV series for SK Productions.
She was the original Assistant Director on the stage musical Mamma Mia. She has an MA in Classics and before working in theatre worked in marketing for the Financial Times.
★ ★ ★ ★
... delivered to perfection in director Loveday Ingram's staging
Sunday Independent on Dinner With Groucho (Dublin Theatre Festival)
★ ★ ★ ★
surreal, smart and funny reinvention of an odd pairing
Irish Times on Dinner With Groucho
★ ★ ★ ★
Dazzling
Plays To See Ireland on Dinner With Groucho
In Development
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2025 | UK Tour/Simon Friend Entertainment | |
VERMIN 2024 | Workshop | A new musical by George Fenton, Don Black and Pam Ayres |
SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTARY | Alaska Productions | With Joseph Fiennes and Robyn Charteris |
WITH THESE HANDS | Platypus Productions | New musical based on works of Pam Ayers |
Theatre
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2024 | Barn Theatre | A new ghost story by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel |
2024 | UK Tour/Lee Dean Productions | |
2023 | Salisbury Playhouse | Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and DreamWorks film |
2022 | Dublin Theatre Festival/Belfast International Festival/Arcola Theatre | By Frank McGuinness |
2022 | UK Tour/Smith and Brant/ATG | |
2019 | National Centre for the Performing Arts, China | |
2019 | Storyhouse Chester | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - Brave and chilling. Here is Shakespeare given gravitas and social relevance in a production that grabs its audience and doesn't let go |
2017 - 2018 | Liverpool Playhouse | By Ken Ludwig ★ ★ ★ ★ - Cue thrills, invention – and howls of laughter... you might die laughing |
2017 | Storyhouse, Chester | |
2017 | Theatre Severn | |
2016 | Royal Shakespeare Company (Swan Theatre) | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - Loveday Ingram’s glorious revival ... irresistible |
2013 | Nottingham Playhouse & Theatre Royal York | |
YOUNG HEARTS FESTIVAL 2013 | Iscoyd Park | Artistic Director |
2013 | Park Theatre | Opening production of the theatre |
OUTLYING ISLANDS | Theatre Royal Bath | By David Greig |
HYSTERIA | B*Spoke Theatre Company | By Terry Johnson |
ROCKABY | Gate Theatre, Dublin/Barbican | Beckett Centenary Festival |
BOSTON MARRIAGE | B*Spoke Theatre Company | By David Mamet |
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY | Theatre Royal Haymarket/James Tod Productions | Screenplay by Nora Ephron, stage adaptation by Marcy Kahan. |
DEAD FUNNY | Chichester Festival Theatre - Minerva | By Terry Johnson |
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE | Royal Shakespeare Company International Tour | |
BEDROOM FARCE | Albery Theatre/Michael Codron Productions | By Alan Ayckbourn |
MY ONE AND ONLY | Piccadilly Theatre/ATG | Nominated for Evening Standard Award 2002. |
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE | Royal Shakespeare Company | |
THREE SISTERS | Chichester Festival Theatre | |
MY ONE AND ONLY | Chichester Festival Theatre | Nominated for Barclays Best Musical Award. |
LETTICE AND LOVAGE | Theatre Royal Bath | By Peter Shaffer |
THE MESSIAH | National Theatre of Brent/Bush Theatre | |
THE BLUE ROOM | Theatre Royal Haymarket | |
HYSTERIA | Chichester Festival Theatre - Minerva | By Terry Johnson |
PAL JOEY | Chichester Festival Theatre | Nominated for TMA Best Musical Award |
THE BLUE ROOM | Chichester Festival Theatre | |
INSIGNIFICANCE | Chichester Festival Theatre - Minerva | By Terry Johnson |
Opera
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
ALL ABOUT LOVE | Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House | |
VANESSA | Lyric Hammersmith | British premiere of Samuel Barber's opera. |
RAPE OF LUCRETIA | BAC |
Short Films
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2020 | 3 Wise Monkeys/Absolute Record Services/Fairwood Music | Music video for song by Ian Bartholomew |