Blanche McIntyre Director / Writer * Winner - Best Director: TMA 2013 UK Theatre Awards * Winner of the 2011 Critcs' Circle Most Promising Newcomer Award for ACCOLADE and FOXFINDER (both at the Finborough Theatre) * FOXFINDER: Listed in Independent's top 5 picks for 2011 * ACCOLADE: Best Director and Best Production at Off West End Theatre Awards 2011; Listed in the Spectator's Top Ten Plays for 2011; Time Out's Best Fringe Show 2011 National Theatre Studio Director's Course (2010) Winner - Leverhulme Bursary (2009) Agents Giles Smart Assistant Ellie Byrne [email protected] +44 (020 3214 0812 Credits In Development Production Company Notes THE LITTLE FOXES Gate Theatre, Dublin By Lillian Hellman 2020 Theatre Production Company Notes HYMN Almeida / Sky Arts By Lolita Chakrabarti 2021 United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes BOTTICELLI IN THE FIRE Hampstead By Jordan Tannahill 2019 BARTHOLOMEW FAIR Shakespeare's Globe - By Ben Jonson 2019 Sam Wanamaker Playhouse TARTUFFE National Theatre By Molière 2019 Adapted by John Donnelly & Director Blanche McIntyre WOMEN IN POWER Nuffield Based on Aristophanes' 2018 ASSEMBLY WOMEN THE WINTER'S TALE Shakespeare's Globe By William Shakespeare 2018 THE WRITER Almeida By Ella Hickson 2018 TITUS ANDRONICUS RSC By William Shakespeare 2017 THE NORMAN CONQUESTS Chichester Festival By Alan Ayckbourn 2017 Theatre THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN RSC: The Swan By William Shakespeare 2016 NOISES OFF Nottingham Playhouse By Michael Frayn 2016 WELCOME HOME CAPTAIN FOX! Donmar Warehouse A new version of Jean 2016 Anouilh's 'Le Voyageur Sans Baggage' by Anthony Weigh THE ORESTEIA HOME (Manchester) By Aeschylus 2015 Translated by Ted Hughes AS YOU LIKE IT Shakespeare's Globe By William Shakespeare 2015 ARCADIA Ambassador Theatre By Tom Stoppard 2015 Group / ETT ACCOLADE St James Theatre By Emlyn Williams 2014 THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Shakespeare's Globe By William Shakespeare 2014 TONIGHT AT 8.30 Nuffield / English Touring Nine one-act plays by Noël 2014 Theatre Coward THE NUTCRACKER Nuffield By Hattie Naylor 2013 Songs & lyrics by Paul Dodgson United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes CIPHERS Out Of Joint / Bush Touring production 2013 Theatre / Northcott By Dawn King Theatre (Exeter) THE BIRTHDAY PARTY Manchester Royal By Harold Pinter 2013 Exchange THE SEAGULL Headlong Theatre / By Anton Chekhov in a new 2013 Nuffield / Derby Theatre / version by John Donnelly UK Tour * Winner - Best Director: TMA 2013 UK Theatre Awards THE GRACE OF MARY TRAVERSE Out Of Joint Rehearsed reading 2013 LIAR, LIAR Unicorn Theatre By E V Crowe 2013 THE ONLY TRUE HISTORY OF LIZZIE Jagged Fence / By Sebastian Barry FINN Southwark Playhouse 2012 THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH Salisbury Playhouse By George Axelrod 2012 REPENTANCE; BEHIND THE LINES ANGLE Theatre / Bush By Media Ahmed and Neil 2012 Theatre Daley respetively FOXFINDER Finborough Theatre By Dawn King 2011 Part of the Papatango Playwriting Festival * Listed in Independent's top 5 picks for 2011 WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE MY Trafalgar Studios - Studio By Christopher Hampton MOTHER? 2 2011 IN WORLD Finborough Theatre Rehearsed reading 2011 ROBIN HOOD Latitude Festival / By Chris Thorpe 2011 National Student Drama Festival PINCHING FOR MY SOUL Focus Theatre, Dublin By Elizabeth Moynihan 2011 OPEN HEART SURGERY Southwark Playhouse As part of Theatre Uncut 2011 project United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes ACCOLADE Finborough Theatre By Emlyn Williams 2011 * Best Director and Best Production at Off West End Theatre Awards 2011 * Listed in the Spectator's Top Ten Plays for 2011 * Time Out's Best Fringe Show 2011 THE BIG FELLAH (2010/11) Out Of Joint / Lyric as Associate Director; dir. Hammersmith / Tour / Max Stafford-Clark 2011 Revival Tour SCARRED Out Of Joint Rehearsed reading of play 2010 by Kathryn O'Reilly ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS Finborough Theatre Rehearsed reading 2010 THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Changeling Theatre as Associate Director; 2010 Company tour dir. Robert Forknall THE VOICE OF SCOTLAND Finborough Theatre Rehearsed reading 2010 A MODEL FOR MANKIND Cock Tavern Theatre Written by James Sheldon 2010 MOLIÈRE, OR THE LEAGUE OF Finborough Theatre HYPOCRITES 2009 BIRDS Southwark Playhouse - 2009 Secrets season DIRT National Theatre Studio Rehearsed reading 2009 GREEN Finborough Theatre Rehearsed reading 2009 THE GRAND IRRATIONALITY National Theatre Studio Rehearsed reading 2009 By Jemma Kennedy THE FLIES Echange Theatre as Assistant Director; dir. 2009 Company / Camden David Furlong People's Theatre MEDEA Humble Theatre as Assistant Director; dir. 2009 Company / Prince Jodi de Souza Edward Bayswater THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE Union Theatre 2008 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Changeling Theatre as Associate Director; dir. 2008 Company / Kent tour Rob Forknall United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes CAN'T PAY? WON'T PAY! Arcola Theatre as Assistant Director; dir. 2008 Kate Moyse; Youth Theatre WUTHERING HEIGHTS Birmingham / Midlands 2007 tour ALADDIN Oxford Playhouse as Assistant Director; dir. 2007 Peter Duncan MEETINGS Blue Hug Theatre as Assistant Director; dir. 2007 Company / Arcola Theatre Dan Barnard THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Changeling Theatre as Assistant Director; dir. 2007 Company / Kent tour Rob Forknall CHARLIE AND HENRY Good Stuff Productions / as Assistant Director; dir. 2007 New End Theatre Jason Lawson DOCTOR FAUSTUS / THE DEVIL IS AN White Bear Theatre ASS 2006 MACBETH Changeling Theatre as Assistant Director; dir. 2006 Company / Kent / London Rob Forknall tour THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Changeling Theatre as Assistant Director; dir. 2006 Company / Kent / London Rob Forknall tour THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL White Bear Theatre AND MR HYDE AS TOLD TO CARL JUNG BY AN INMATE OF BROADMOOR ASYLUM 2005 THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY Battersea Arts Centre 2005 LOST HEARTS Edinburgh Fringe also as Writer 2005 FAMILY FORTUNES Soho Theatre Studio Rehearsed reading 2005 THE MASTER AND MARGARITA Greenwich Playhouse also as Writer (adaptation) 2004 Television Production Company Notes GOING FORWARD Headlong / BBC Arts By John Donnelly 2020 Part of the UNPRECEDENTED series United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Film Production Company Notes THE HIPPOPOTAMUS Electric Shadow As co-writer 2017 Company Feature film script based on the novel by Stephen Fry Opera Production Company Notes THE MARRIAGE OF English Touring Opera By Mozart FIGARO 2018 TOSCA English Touring Opera By Giacomo Puccini 2017 Conductor: Michael Rosewell THE BEGGAR'S OPERA Changeling Theatre Company / as Assistant Director; dir. Rob 2007 Kent tour Forknall Other Production Company Notes NANCY THE WATERMAN Maltings Arts Theatre, St as Writer; Libretto for Stephen Dodgson's 2007 Albans premiering production Additional information REVIEWS THE WRITER ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “McIntyre directs with customary dexterity and alertness to the work” (Natasha Tripney, The Stage) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “scenes unfold, sinuous and surprising and so slickly managed in Blanche McIntyre’s confident production” (Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "McIntrye lends the play a stripped back clarity, while allowing space for gorgeous flourishes" (Connor Campbell, The Upcoming ) ★ ★ ★ ★ “beautifully and sensitively directed by Blanche McIntyre” (Sarah Crompton, What’s On Stage) ★ ★ ★ ★ “thrillingly meta assault on the theatre establishment” (Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out) ★ ★ ★ ★ “handled with witty aplomb in Blanche McIntyre's superbly acted production” (Paul Taylor, The Independent United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] ) ★ ★ ★ ★ “superbly inventive production” (Michael Billington, The Guardian) ★ ★ ★ ★ “Over two unflaggingly inventive hours, directed by Blanche McIntyre, I found myself by turns goaded, irritated, delighted, challenged.” (Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph) ★ ★ ★ ★ "momentous" (Cindy Marcolina, Broadway World) AS YOU LIKE IT "Witty and Affectionate" (Jane Shilling, The Telegraph ****) "McIntyre is a director of delicay and lightness of touch" (Natasha Tripney, The Stage ****) "Joyous and breath-taking" (Michael Coveney, What's On Stage ****) "Warmly entertaining, giddy joy" (Lyn Gardner, The Guardian ****) ARCADIA 'Whisperingly close to perfection' (Sunday Times, ****) **** Financial Times; **** Stage; **** Whatsonstage ACCOLADE (2014) 'This cracking production' (Daily Mail, *****) 'McIntyre's note-perfect production' (Artsdesk, *****) 'Blanche McIntyre's impeccable production' (Guardian, ****) **** The Times & Sunday Time); **** Independent; **** Financial Times; **** Sunday Express; **** Evening Standard; **** Whatsonstage THE COMEDY OF ERRORS "Blanche McIntyre makes a formidable debut in this special space with a Comedy of Errors that is as enchanting as it is hilarious... It's no small praise to say that it is the most completely satisfying account of the piece since Tim Supple's acclaimed eerie/riotous RSC version nearly 20 years ago... McIntyre, in ways I am still trying to fully figure out pulls