Joe Hill-Gibbins

Joe is a theatre and opera director based in London.  He directed his first professional production in 2002 as winner of the James Menzies-Kitchen Young Director Award. Between 2000 and 2004 he worked for the Royal Court Theatre as an assistant director and then Trainee Associate Director. Between 2007 and 2013 he was a resident director at the Young Vic Theatre, becoming Deputy Artistic Director in 2010.

In 2023 he directed his own adaptation of Ibsen’s Ghosts for the Globe Wannamaker Theatre and a new production of A View from the Bridge for Parco Japan.

Other productions include The Marriage of Figaro (English National Opera and Wuppertal Bühnen); Mark Anthony Turnage’s Greek (Edinburgh International Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Staatsoper Hannover); Summerfolk (Residenz Theater Munich); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, The Changeling, The Glass Menagerie, and The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Young Vic Theatre); Absolute Hell, Edward II (National Theatre); Richard II, Little Revolution (Almeida Theatre); Mary Page Marlowe (Theater Basel); Greek (Edinburgh International Festival and Scottish Opera); Powder Her Face (English National Opera); The Village Bike and The Girlfriend Experience (Royal Court Theatre).