Cat Robey

I am currently Deputy Artistic Director of Jermyn Street Theatre (August 2019 - present).

Directing includes: The Shy Manifesto (Live Theatre Newcastle & national tour); The Good Landlord (VAULT Festival & King’s Head); Beauty and the Beast: A Musical Parody (King’s Head & national tour); The God Delusion (Chorlton Arts Festival); After Party (Pleasance); Catching Up (N16); Enveloped in Velvet (Arts Theatre);  Buzz: A New Musical (Pleasance, Edinburgh & national tour); Tom and Bunny Save the World (Assembly, Edinburgh & national tour); Yerma (Fourth Monkey); Hatch (Park); Freedom, Books, Flowers, and the Moon (Waterloo East); Ondine (White Bear), nominated Best Director by the Off West End Awards.

Associate/assistant directing includes: For Services Rendered (Jermyn Street), Othello (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Emperor (Theatre for a New Audience in New York & Young Vic); Chamaco, Inkheart, The Oresteia, Wallflower (all at HOME); Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. (Old Grenada Studios) and Dogs Barking (RADA).

I am Associate Director of the award winning Ransack Theatre, and Metamorph Theatre. I am a graduate of the Birkbeck MFA in Theatre Directing and was Resident Trainee Director at HOME 2015-16. I teach at, and am on the interview panel for, the Birkbeck MFA in Theatre Directing.

Credits

DIRECTOR, The Shy Manifesto, Live Theatre Newcastle & National Tour, 5 weeks, 2019
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, For Services Rendered, Jermyn Street Theatre, 5 weeks, 2019
DIRECTOR, The Good Landlord, Vault Festival & King's Head, 2 weeks, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Othello, Shakespeare's Globe, 12 weeks, 2018
DIRECTOR, The God Delusion, Chorlton Arts Festival, 2 weeks, 2018
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Emperor, Young Vic & Theatre For A New Audience NYC, 11 weeks, 2018 & 2016
DIRECTOR, After Party, Pleasance London, 2 weeks, 2017
DIRECTOR, Enveloped in Velvet, Arts Theatre, 1 week, 2016
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Chamaco, HOME, 1 week, 2016
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Inkheart, HOME, 5 weeks, 2015
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Oresteia, 3 weeks, 2015
DIRECTOR, Yerma, Fourth Monkey, 3 weeks, 2014

Training

MFA Theatre Directing, Birkbeck - Distinction 2016
BA Drama & Theatre Arts, Goldsmith's - 1st Class Honours 2011