Anna Stephen
Theatre Director Writer ProducerWriter and theatre director.
I founded and direct Honest Fool Productions, a theatre company interested in new writing, movement work and creative adaptations of classic texts. Most recently I wrote and directed The Importance of Being Nihilists, which saw sold-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023.
I studied at the University of Oxford, graduating with a first-class BA in English Language and Literature in 2023. I won Oxford University Dramatic Society's 2023 New Writing Competition for my full-length play 'Better Yesterday', and was shortlisted for Oxford University Filmmaking Foundation's 2022 Short Film Screenwriting Competition.
Credits
Director/Co-Producer, The Importance of Being Nihilists, theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Edinburgh Fringe), 6 performances, 2023Writer/Director, Better Yesterday, Burton Taylor Studio (Oxford), 5 performances, 2023
Director, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Michael Pilch Studio (Oxford), 6 performances, 2022
Director, Much Ado About Nothing, Merton College Fellows' Garden (Oxford), 6 performances, 2022
Writer/Director, The Importance of Being Nihilists, Burton Taylor Studio (Oxford), 5 performances, 2022
Writer, It Was Really Nothing (Audio Drama for Play On: The OUDS Podcast), 2021
Training
BA English Language and Literature, University of OxfordDirecting Masterclass with Rebecca Frecknall (Almeida Theatre, 2023)
Location
KentExperience
1-2 years
Art forms / Disciplines
- Literature
- Music
- Theatre / Live perfomance
- TV - drama
What I do
- Directing
- Music - Can Read
- Music - Plays Instruments
- Music Composition
- Producing
- Theatre making
- Writing
