Natalie Abrahami
Director
Film, TV & Theatre
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 Wings, George 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
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2022 | Main Stage, Royal Opera House | Antonin Dvorák - Composer |
THE TURN OF THE SCREW | Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House | Benjamin Britten - Composer |
THE MEETING 2022 | House Productions, Film 4 | Feature Film, written by Charlotte Jones |
Theatre
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2022 | Donmar Warehouse | By Dawn King |
2019 - 2020 | Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Globe Theatre | Created by Natalie Abrahami and Ella Hickson |
2019 | National | Created by Ella Hickson, Ben and Max Ringham |
2018 | Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre | by Charlotte Jones |
2018 | Almeida | by Sophie Treadwell |
2017 | Young Vic | by Arthur Kopit |
2015 - 2017 | Theatre Royal Haymarket & Swan Theatre, RSC | by Helen Edmundson |
2015 | Young Vic | by Eugene O'Neill |
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
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
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
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
HOW THE WHALE BECAME 2013 | ROH2 | Composed by Julian Phillips with libretto by Edward Kemp, based on work by Ted Hughes. |
Online
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2021 | Finite Films and Platform Presents | Online Play, created & written by Lorien Haynes |
Other
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2021 | Audible | Audio play, Written by Alexandra Wood |