Natalie Abrahami

Director

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Film, TV & Theatre

Agent: Rose Cobbe
Assistant: Anna Campbell

Film, TV & Theatre

Natalie started out at the Royal Court Theatre as a Graduate Trainee before training with the Young Vic and National Theatre Studio, where she met Carrie Cracknell. Two years later they applied to run the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill as a duo, which is where her collaborative practice began.

As joint Artistic Directors Natalie and Carrie commissioned Tom Basden, Nancy Harris, Sam Holcroft, Lucy Kirkwood, Nick Payne, and Alexandra Wood to write radical re-interpretations of European classics. During their tenure they were awarded the Paul Hamlyn Breakthrough Fund for Creative Entrepreneurs for their cross-artform dance-theatre work.

Natalie went on to become an Associate Director at the Young Vic where she directed Juliet Stevenson in Happy Days and WingsGeorge Mackay in Ah, Wilderness! and Natalie Dormer in After Miss Julie.

Climate conscious practice sits at the heart of Natalie’s work and this has been the abiding principle for The Trials at the Donmar Warehouse and Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka at the Royal Opera House.

In Development

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2022

Main Stage, Royal Opera House

Antonin Dvorák - Composer
Ann Yee - Co-Creator
Opens February 2023

THE TURN OF THE SCREW

Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House

Benjamin Britten - Composer
Myfanwy Piper - Libretto
Postponed due to Pandemic. New dates TBC

THE MEETING

2022

House Productions, Film 4

Feature Film, written by Charlotte Jones

Theatre

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2022

Donmar Warehouse

By Dawn King
'haunting and thought-provoking – this is the best play about our climate emergency.' ★★★★ The arts desk

2019 - 2020

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Globe Theatre

Created by Natalie Abrahami and Ella Hickson
Writer Ella Hickson
Ella Hickson has joined forces with director Natalie Abrahami, whose production shifts between grimly gleeful anachronism and historical empathy... Hugely stimulating.' ★★★★ The Independent

2019

National

Created by Ella Hickson, Ben and Max Ringham
'Brilliantly unsettling. Phoebe Fox is outstanding.' ★★★★★ Daily Mail

2018

Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre

by Charlotte Jones
'Richly evocative staging from director Natalie Abrahami conjures a world of chalk and flint, beauty and privation.' ★★★★ Daily Telegraph

2018

Almeida

by Sophie Treadwell
‘Natalie Abrahami directs an impressive, powerfully disconcerting production’ ★★★★ The Independent

2017

Young Vic

by Arthur Kopit
“A remarkable performance from Stevenson in Abrahami's sensitive and daring production” ★★★★The Independent

2015 - 2017

Theatre Royal Haymarket & Swan Theatre, RSC

by Helen Edmundson
'Natalie Abrahami’s fluid and confident production' ★★★★ Evening Standard

2015

Young Vic

by Eugene O'Neill
"Natalie Abrahami's haunting, witty production" ★★★★ The Independent

2015

Young Vic

"Natalie Abrahami's production is perfectly paced...Stevenson is magnificent" ★★★★★ Evening Standard

2014

Young Vic

"Juliet Stevenson gives an extraordinary expressive performance in Natalie Abrahami's brutal and tender production." ★★★★ Time Out

AFTER MISS JULIE

2012

Young Vic

by Patrick Marber

YERMA

2011

Gate Theatre & Hull Truck

By Lorca, in a new version by Anthony Weigh

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

2011

Headlong

National Tour

THE KREUTZER SONATA

2009

Gate Theatre/LaMama, New York

by Leo Tolstoy, in an adaptation by Nancy Harris. Revived in 2012 at Gate and International Tour.

VANYA

2009

Gate Theatre

by Sam Holcroft, inspired by Anton Chekhov's UNCLE VANYA

GUARDIANS

2009

HighTide Festival

by Lucy Caldwell

THE INTERNATIONALIST

2008

Gate Theatre

by Anne Washburn

THE ELEVENTH CAPITAL

2007

Royal Court Theatre

by Alexandra Wood. Young Writers Festival Winner 2006 and winner of the George Devine Award 2007

PLAY and NOT I by Samuel Beckett

2005

Battersea Arts Centre

Winner James Menzies-Kitchin Award for Directors 2005

Film

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2016

Young Vic Short Films

written by Nigel Williams.

2014

Young Vic Short Films

written by Nancy Harris

2013

Young Vic Short Films

written by Olivia Poulet

Opera

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HOW THE WHALE BECAME

2013

ROH2

Composed by Julian Phillips with libretto by Edward Kemp, based on work by Ted Hughes.

Online

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2021

Finite Films and Platform Presents

Online Play, created & written by Lorien Haynes
'Director Natalie Abrahami is among those helping to give online drama a new assurance.' ★★★★ the Observer

Other

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2021

Audible

Audio play, Written by Alexandra Wood