Simon Godwin

In 2019 Simon started his tenure as Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington DC. His directorial debut was a remounted production of Timon of Athens with Kathryn Hunter.

Simon Godwin is an Associate Director at the National Theatre, where he has directed; Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet (Lyttleton), Hansard, Anthony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, Sunset at the Villa Thalia, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Man and Superman and Strange Interlude.

At the Royal Court, his work includes: Routes, If You Don’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep, NSFW, The Witness, Goodbye to All That, The Acid Test and Wanderlust.

Recent Theatre Includes Macbeth (Liverpool, Edinburgh, London, Washington DC); All The Devils Are Here (Broadway); Romeo and Juliet (Washington National Opera); Timon of Athens, Hamlet and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC); Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Cherry Orchard (Roundabout, New York); Hamlet (Tokyo Bunkamura Theatre), Rules For Living (English Touring Theatre), Occupational Hazards (Hampstead Theatre); Candida (Theatre Royal Bath); Regeneration (Royal & Derngate/tour); The Little Mermaid, Krapp’s Last Tape/A Kind Of Alaska, Faith Healer and Far Away (Bristol Old Vic.); The Winter’s Tale (Headlong with Nuffield Theatre & Schtanhaus/UK tour); All the Little Things We Crushed (Almeida Projects); The Country (Tabard); The Seagull, Habeas Corpus, Relatively Speaking (Royal & Derngate Theatres, Northampton); Quartermaine’s Terms (Royal & Derngate Theatres/Salisbury Playhouse); Mister Heracles (West Yorkshire Playhouse).