Simon Pittman Theatre Director & Movement Director Associate Director (Learn & Train) at Frantic Assembly
CURRENT Direction: Distance by Alex McSweeney Park Theatre London | Fine Line Productions and Rough Fiction Movement: The Comedy of Errors Swan Theatre & Tour | Royal Shakespeare Company | Dir. Alex Thorpe Movement: The Box of Delights Wilton’s Music Hall | Dir. Justin Audibert
DIRECTION The Expected Wilton’s Music Hall / Rough Fiction & London Arts Orchestra (LAO) Othello Ambassadors, West End | National Youth Theatre Frantic Assembly His Wild Imaginings Barbican/Guildhall, LSO St Luke’s | Rough Fiction, LAO The Last of The Lake Newbury Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome & Tour | Rough Fiction Not A Game For Boys by Simon Block Library Theatre, Manchester Siblings by Eleanor Teasdale The Gate Theatre, London | Gate Ink The Love of The Nightingale Artsdepot, Union Chapel & Pop-up Tour | Rough Fiction Ensemble Killing Alan Underbelly Edinburgh Festival | Rough Fiction Hospitals and Other Buildings That Catch Fire Underbelly Edinburgh Festival | Rough Fiction The Treadmark / Do You See Mice? Theatre 503, London by Joseph Millington
MOVEMENT DIRECTION | CHOREOGRAPHY The Rivals Watermill Theatre | Dir. Jonathan Humpfreys The Expected Wilton’s Music Hall / Rough Fiction & London Arts Orchestra (LAO) The White Bike The Space | Dir. Lily McLeish As Associate: The Curious Incident of Gielgud Theatre West End | National Theatre Productions The Dog In The Night-time Dir. Marianne Elliot | Mov. Dir. Scott Graham/Steven Hoggett The Go-Between Apollo Theatre West End | Greene Light Stage & Bill Kenwright Ltd adapted from LP Hartley's Novel Dir. Roger Haines Romeo and Juliet New Theatre Cardiff & Theatre Clwyd | National Youth Theatre Wales The Caucasian Chalk Circle National Youth Theatre Wales | Frantic Assembly | Dir. Bruce Guthrie Orson’s Shadow by Austin Pendleton Southwark Playhouse | Emily Dobbs | Smith & Brant Theatricals Out Of The Cage by Alex McSweeney The Park Theatre London | The Rose Theatre Kingston | Fine Line The Shawshank Redemption Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Festival | Gaiety Theatre, Dublin Between Two Worlds (Rhwng Dan Fyd) Sherman Theatre Cardiff | Living Pictures | Various directors The Kingdom by Colin Teevan Soho Theatre | Three-Legged Theatre | Dir. Lucy Pitman-Wallace 99…100 National Theatre of Scotland | Fife Culture Mixter Maxter National Theatre of Scotland | St Magnus Festival, Orkney 365 by David Harrower Edinburgh Playhouse & Lyric Hammersmith | Dir. Vicky Featherstone (Associate to Steven Hoggett) National Theatre of Scotland | Edinburgh International Festival
ASSOCIATE DIRECTION The Shawshank Redemption Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Festival | Gaiety Theatre, Dublin Floyd Collins Southwark Playhouse | Peter Huntley Productions | Dir. Derek Bond The Go-Between West Yorkshire Playhouse & Tour | Roger Haines AS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Ravenhill for Breakfast by Mark Ravenhill Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh | Paines Plough | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Library Theatre, Manchester | Dir. Chris Honer Chapter Two Library Theatre, Manchester | Dir. Roger Haines The Golden Goose Library Theatre, Manchester | Dir. Dir. Charles Way Simon Pittman Theatre Director & Movement Director Associate Director (Learn & Train) at Frantic Assembly AWARDS | NOMINATIONS Floyd Collins Best Musical - Off West End Awards (as associate director) The Go-Between Best Musical - UK Theatre Awards (as associate director) Not a Game For Boys Nominated: Best Production, and the cast for Best Actor in the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards (as director) Hospitals and Other Buildings That Catch Fire Shortlisted: Fringe First Award, Edinburgh Festival (as director) Award for Professional Preparation in the Arts Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship Higher Education Authority
COMPANIES Frantic Assembly: Associate Director (Learn & Train) 2017 onwards www.franticassembly.co.uk Previously: Creative Practitioner 2008 - 2016 Training artists, new practitioners and teachers;leading larger scale Learn and Train projects and directing productions; working on the artistic vision and strategy for Learn and Train provision; supporting the company’s wider artistic output. ‘The Vibrant and Visceral Frantic Assembly’ The Independent
Rough Fiction: Co-founder and co-director www.roughfiction.com A multi-disciplinary company creating original productions. Currently supported by English Touring Theatre’s Forge Program, Cockayne Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation. ✭✭✭✭‘No escape from Life's questions. Rough Fiction push the boundaries of text and performance’ (Scotsman) ✭✭✭✭‘Highly recommended … the deconstructive flair of The Wooster Group playing Pirandello’ (Metro)
Selector for the National Student Drama Festival (nsdf.org.uk)
TRAINING | EDUCATION National Theatre Studio Directors' Course 2010 Trainee Director at the Library Theatre Manchester 2007 MFA Theatre Directing, Birkbeck University of London 2005-07 BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London - First Class Honours. 2001-04
FACILITATION | LECTURING Currently leading on the MA Collaborative Theatre-making for Frantic Assembly Senior Lecturer in Drama and Performance London South Bank University Visiting Lecturer, MFA Theatre Directing Birkbeck University of London Visiting Lecturer & Director Portsmouth University Royal Holloway Uni of London Research Assistant Birkbeck’s Centre for Contemporary Theatre Practice Published interview on devised theatre practice Directing: A Handbook for Emerging Theatre Directors Rob Swain | Methuen
REFERENCES Lucy Pitman-Wallace & Scott Graham Gregory Nash Justin Audibert Artistic Director at Creative Director, Theatre Directors Frantic Assembly British Council