STEVEN ATKINSON (DIRECTOR)
Training: Read Film and Theatre at Reading University and interned at Hampstead Theatre following his graduation in 2005. He became Literary Manager of Hull Truck Theatre in 2006 and then Artistic Director of HighTide Festival Theatre in 2007.
• Direction for HighTide:
Incoming by Andrew Motion (HighTide Festival 2011 / Latitude Festival, Aldeburgh Poetry Festival); Dusk Rings A Bell by Stephen Belber (HighTide Festival 2011, Edinburgh Festival, Watford Palace Theatre); Lidless by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (HighTide Festival 2010, Edinburgh Festival, West End); Muhmah by Jesse Weaver (HighTide Festival 2009) and The Pitch by Nick Payne (Latitude Festival).
• Other Direction includes:
The Afghan and the Penguin by Michael Hastings (BBC Radio 4); Freedom Trilogy by various (Hull Truck Theatre); Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet (Edinburgh Festival).
• Awards include: A Fringe First for Lidless; two SOLT Stage One Bursaries for Lidless and Stovepipe; a Whatsonstage Award nomination for Best Off-West End Production (Stovepipe); and Esquire’s Brilliant Brits 2009.