Anthony Almeida
ANTHONY ALMEIDA anthony-almeida.com Award Winner – RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award (2019) Inaugural Link Artist Stage Director, Royal Opera House (2017/19) Director in Residence, Almeida Theatre (2015) Literary Assistantship, Bristol Old Vic (2012)
IN DEVELOPMENT Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Curve Leicester (& ETT: UK, EU tour) Tennessee Williams 2021 TBA Royal Opera House 2022 Untitled Almeida Theatre
DIRECTION A Raisin in the Sun Almeida Theatre (week workshop) Lorraine Hansberry 2018 Figures of Speech Almeida Theatre speech.almeida.co.uk 2017 SPECIAL MENTION: The Stage Awards (2018) Almeida Theatre, London Theatre of the Year Second Chance Birmingham Opera Company 3 new compositions 2017 privileges Young Vic (5 Plays) Pamela Carter 2015 Centre Spread Wardrobe Theatre Devised 2013 Fox Southwark Playhouse Sarah Kosar 2013 I am Michael Gove Wardrobe Theatre Chino Odimba 2013 London 2012 Glasgow Bristol Old Vic (Theatre Uncut) Kieran Hurley 2012 Yesterday Bristol Old Vic (Theatre Uncut) Helena Tornero 2012 A Vampire Story Bristol Old Vic (Outreach) Moira Buffini 2012 The Changeling Young Vic (Young Peoples Project) Middleton & Rowley 2012
CO-DIRECTION Orestie Staatstheater Stuttgart with Robert Icke 2018 WON: Kurt Hübner Director Award (2018) REVIVAL DIRECTION The Doctor Adelaide Festival for Robert Icke 2020
ASSOCIATE & ASSISTANT DIRECTION Agrippina Royal Opera House Barrie Kosky 2019
Nixon in China Royal Danish Opera John Fulljames 2019 NOM: Royal Philharmonic Society Awards (2020)
Wake Birmingham Opera Company Sir Graham Vick 2018
Return of Ulysses Royal Opera / Roundhouse John Fulljames 2017
Madame Bovary Liverpool Everyman (& Tour) Gemma Bodinetz 2016
Odyssey Almeida Theatre Rupert Goold & Robert Icke 2015
Iliad Almeida Theatre Rupert Goold & Robert Icke 2015
Oresteia Almeida & West End Robert Icke 2015 WON: Best Director, Olivier Awards (2016) WON: Best Director Evening Standard Awards (2015) WON: Best Director Critics Circle Awards (2015)
Game Almeida Theatre Sacha Wares 2015
To Kill a Mockingbird Regent’s Park Open Air (& Tour) Timothy Sheader 2013 & 2014 WON: Best Play Revival, WhatsOnStage Awards (2013)
Cinderella Tobacco Factory Theatre Sally Cookson 2011 WON: Best Children & Young People, Off West End Awards NOM: Best Entertainment & Family, Olivier Awards DEVELOPMENT WORK Royal Opera House Virtual reality and opera 2019 Royal Opera House Digital technologies/Arup: engineering live performance on tour 2018
OTHER ― Trustee, Nottingham Playhouse Deputy Chair, Anti-Racism Action Group Recruitment panel, Associate Artist employment Unconscious Bias training (Tonic Theatre) (in 2019, invited to join the Boards of four theatres)
― Script Reader, previously: Royal Court; Almeida Theatre; Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; Out of Joint; Bristol Old Vic; Hull Truck; Papatango Prize; Tobacco Factory Prize
― Community and Engagement projects, previously: HM Prisons; Pupil Referral Units; Young Vic; National Youth Theatre; Bristol Old Vic; Directors Charitable Foundation Shakespeare Schools Festival; Cheltenham Everyman; Theatre Orchard; Bigfoot Arts Education
― Stagecraft coach for opera singers: Jette Parker Young Artists Programme (Royal Opera House); Voices of South Africa (Cape Town)
― British Sign Language (Attained: Level 1, Learning: Level 2); German (AS Level); Italian (Beginners)