Audrey Sheffield
Director
Film, TV & Theatre
Audrey is an award-winning UK and international freelance director, specialising in new writing, and committed to making work that is rigorous, imaginatively ambitious, and emotionally truthful.
She is a recipient of a Michael Grandage Company Futures Bursary 2020, was an Old Vic 12 Director 2019, nominated for the Arts Foundation Award 2018 and Finalist Best Director for the Off-West End Awards 2017/2018 (The Dark Room, Theatre503).
She trained as a theatre director with Sam Kogan in London and Moscow, and through further directing programmes and invited workshops at the Young Vic, National Theatre Studio, RSC and with Peter Brook.
As director, theatre includes: Jews. In Their Own Words (Royal Court); Neighbourhood Voices, Tapestry (Young Vic); Perspective (National); The Dybbuk (Almeida); We Too Are Giants (Kiln); Sleepwalking (Hampstead); The Effect, Apologia (English Theatre Frankfurt); The Dark Room (Theatre503); The Scar Test (Arcola); Little Flower of East Orange (National Theatre Studio).
Associate / Resident directing includes productions with Patrick Marber, Ian Rickson, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Carrie Cracknell, Rupert Goold, Clare Lizzimore, Mark Ravenhill and Elizabeth LeCompte - at the Old Vic, National Theatre, RSC, Hampstead Theatre and in the West End.
Alongside theatre projects, Audrey also works as a voice / performance director for video games. Recent credits include: Tom Clancy’s The Division (Ubisoft); Wuthering Waves (Kuro); Meet Your Maker (Behaviour Interactive).
Audrey is currently Associate Director on Stranger Things: The First Shadow, working with Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin.
She has dual citizenship and holds a US passport.
For more details and images of work, please see www.audreysheffield.co.uk
Theatre
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
AS DIRECTOR | ||
JEWS. IN THEIR OWN WORDS 2022 | Royal Court | by Jonathan Freedland |
CYPRUS AVENUE 2022 | RADA | By David Ireland |
THE THIRD 2022 | V&A (King’s Head) | By Timberlake Wertenbaker, with Dame Harriet Walter |
NEIGHBOURHOOD VOICES 2022 | Young Vic | |
THE MOORS 2021 | LAMDA | By Jen Silverman |
PERSPECTIVE 2021 | National Theatre | By Mackenzie Wellfare (New Views) |
THE DYBBUK 2021 | Almeida | By S. Ansky - in a translation by Golda Werman (Six Artists in Search of a Play) |
TAPESTRY 2020 - 2021 | Young Vic | By Nessah Muthy (TWENTY TWENTY. film) |
KILN YOUNG WRITERS PROGRAMME 2021 | Kiln | New plays by various emerging young writers |
CONSTELLATIONS 2021 | BOVTS | By Nick Payne |
SLEEPWALKING 2020 | Hampstead Theatre | By Hannah Khalil |
THE EFFECT 2020 | English Theatre Frankfurt | By Lucy Prebble |
SKIN AND BLISTER 2020 | Old Vic / Old Vic 12 | By Charlotte Josephine |
STROIKA 2019 | RSC Literary Workshop | By Olga Nikora |
NFTS SCREENWRITERS SHOWCASE 2019 | Soho Theatre / NFTS | |
APOLOGIA 2019 | English Theatre Frankfurt | By Alexi Kaye Campbell |
NFTS MA SCREENWRITERS' GRADUATION SHOWCASE 2018 | NFTS / Soho Theatre | |
CLEANSE and ASHES TO ASHES, OOLONG TO ASSAM (Readings) 2018 | National Theatre | Readings for NT New Views |
OUR LADY OF 121ST STREET 2018 | BOVTS | By Stephen Adly Guirgis |
THE DARK ROOM 2017 | Theatre503 | By Angela Betzien |
WE TOO ARE GIANTS 2017 | Kiln Theatre | By Chinonyerem Odimba |
DON JUAN IN SOHO (Understudy Run) 2017 | The Wyndham's | By Patrick Marber |
DEAD FUNNY (Understudy Run) 2017 | Vaudeville Theatre (West End) | By Terry Johnson |
THE SCAR TEST 2016 | Theatre Delicatessen, Sheffield | By Hannah Khalil |
HAND TO GOD (Understudy Run) 2016 | West End | By Robert Askins |
PRINCE OF DENMARK 2015 | Karamel Club, Mountview | By Michael Lesslie |
THE SCAR TEST 2015 | Arcola, Bedford, Colchester | By Hannah Khalil |
ORESTEIA (A RESPONSE) 2015 | Almeida (Almeida Participation) | By Paul Webster |
TEN POUNDS - DEVISED 2015 | National Theatre | By Angela Betzien |
PIGGIES 2015 | RCSSD | By Milly Thomas |
ELECTRA (Understudy Run) 2014 | Old Vic | Sophocles in a new version by Frank McGuinness |
SOMETHING WICKED (Reading) 2014 | National Theatre | By Cameron Finlay |
ALMOST NEAR 2014 | Finborough Theatre | By Pamela Carter |
JUNE 2013 | Park Theatre | By Isley Lynn |
APPLES 2013 | Theatre503 | By Brian Walters |
LITTLE FLOWER OF EAST ORANGE 2013 | National Theatre Studio | By Stephen Adly Guirgis |
ONE MAN TWO GUVNORS (Understudy Run) 2012 - 2013 | West End | By Richard Bean |
BOHEMIANS 2012 | Etcetera | By Jaki McCarrick |
MOONY'S KID DON'T CRY 2011 | King’s Head | By Tennessee Williams |
ASSOCIATE/ ASSISTANT DIRECTING | ||
STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW 2023 - 2024 | Sonia Friedman Productions / Phoenix Theatre | As Associate Director |
PINTER AT THE PINTER 2018 - 2019 | ATG | Associate Director on THE ROOM, VICTORIA STATION and FAMILY VOICES |
DON QUIXOTE 2018 - 2019 | West End / RSC | Adapted by James Fenton from the novel by Miguel De Cervantes |
DON JUAN IN SOHO 2017 | The Wyndham's | Written & Directed by Patrick Marber |
DEAD FUNNY 2016 | Vaudeville Theatre (West End) | Written & Directed by Terry Johnson |
HAND TO GOD 2016 | West End | By Robert Askins |
ELECTRA 2014 | Old Vic | Sophocles in a new version by Frank McGuinness |
RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN 2014 | Hampstead Theatre | By Gina Gionfriddo |
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA 2013 | RSC | Shakespeare |
ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS 2012 - 2013 | West End | By Richard Bean |
THE EFFECT 2012 - 2013 | National Theatre | By Lucy Prebble |
THE EQUALITY ILLUSION (BLURRED LINES) 2012 | National Theatre Studio | Adapted by Nick Payne from the book by Kat Banyard |
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA 2012 | RSC / The Wooster Group | Shakespeare |
LAY DOWN YOUR CROSS 2012 | Hampstead Theatre | By Nick Payne |
THE CORONATION OF POPPEA 2011 | OperaUpClose, King’s Head | Directed & translated by Mark Ravenhill |
Other
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
SCRIPT READING 2015 - 2020 | Paines Plough Women’s Playwriting Prize, National Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, The Print Room, Theatre503 and The Bruntwood Prize, Judge for Adrian Pagan Award | |
NT CONNECTIONS 2018 | National Theatre | Associate Director |
THEATRE COMMUNITY 2017 | Kiln | Company Director |
NEW VIEWS LONDON HUB 2012 - 2017 | National Theatre | Co-Facilitator |
NT CONNECTIONS 2014 - 2018 | National Theatre | Director |
VISITING DIRECTOR | Mountview / Arts Ed / RCSSD / BOVTS / LAMDA / NFTS | |
LEAD FACILITATOR AND THEATRE PRACTITIONER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE | National Theatre, RSC, Almeida Participation, Old Vic |
Audrey has dual UK and US Citizenship and is a Board Member of Stage Directors UK.