Audrey Sheffield

I’m a freelance theatre director with a passion for new work, committed to making theatre that is honest, rigorous and imaginatively ambitious.

I was recently an Old Vic 12 Director, recipient of an MGCfutures Bursary 2019/2020, selected as Best Director Finalist - Off-West-End Awards 2017/2018, and nominated for an Arts Foundation Award 2018.

Recent Directing includes projects and productions for the National Theatre, Almeida, Young Vic, Kiln, Hampstead Theatre, Theatre503, English Theatre Frankfurt, and the Old Vic.

And I have worked as Associate / Assistant Director at the Old Vic, National Theatre, RSC, Hampstead Theatre and in the West End, alongside Patrick Marber, Ian Rickson, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Carrie Cracknell, Mark Ravenhill and Rupert Goold.

Preferred pronoun: she/her.

Credits

DIRECTOR, Cyprus Avenue, RADA, 12 performances, 2022
DIRECTOR, Neighbourhood Voices, Young Vic, 1 performance, 2022
DIRECTOR, The Moors, LAMDA, 5 performances, 2021
DIRECTOR, Perspective, National Theatre, 2 performances and livestream / online performance, 2021
DIRECTOR, The Dybbuk, Almeida Theatre, staged reading, 1 performance, 2021
DIRECTOR, KYWP, Kiln Theatre, staged reading, 1 performance, 2021
DIRECTOR, Constellations, BOVTS, 1 performance, 2021
DIRECTOR, Tapestry, Twenty Twenty, Young Vic, film and livestream online performance, 2020/2021
DIRECTOR, Sleepwalking, Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, 2020
DIRECTOR, The Effect, English Theatre Frankfurt, 4 weeks, 2020
DIRECTOR, Skin And Blister, Old Vic, OV12, staged reading, 2 performances, 2019
DIRECTOR, NFTS Screenwriters Showcase, Soho Theatre, 1 performance, 2019
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Cracked - One Voice Monologues, Old Vic, 1 performance, 2019
DIRECTOR, Apologia, English Theatre Frankfurt, 6 weeks, 2019
DIRECTOR, Stroika, RSC Literary Workshop, R&D, 2019
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Pinter At The Pinter - Season 5, West End, 6 weeks, 2018/2019
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Don Quixote, West End/RSC, 12 weeks, 2018/2019
DIRECTOR, Cleanse, & Ashes to Ashes, National Theatre, Readings, 2018
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, NT Connections, National Theatre Dorfman, 1 week, 2018
DIRECTOR, NFTS Screenwriters Showcase, Soho Theatre, 1 performance, 2018
DIRECTOR, Our Lady of 121st Street, BOVTS, 1 performance, 2018
DIRECTOR, The Dark Room*, Theatre503, 4 weeks, 2017 (*Best Director Finalist in Off-West-End Awards)
DIRECTOR, We Too Are Giants, Kiln Theatre, 3 performances, 2017
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Don Juan in Soho, West End, 12 weeks, 2017
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Dead Funny, West End, 12 weeks, 2016/2017
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Hand to God, West End, 10 weeks, 2016
DIRECTOR, The Scar Test, Arcola/UK tour, 1 week, 2016
DIRECTOR, Prince of Denmark, Mountview, 1 weeks, 2016
DIRECTOR, Piggies, RCSSD, 1 week, 2015
DIRECTOR, Almost Near, Finborough, 9 performances (over 3 weeks), 2014
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Electra, Old Vic, 8 weeks, 2014
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Rapture, Blister, Burn, Hampstead, 6 weeks, 2014
DIRECTOR, Apples - Thatcherwrite, Theatre503, 3 performances, 2013
DIRECTOR, June, Park Theatre, 2 performances, 2013
DIRECTOR, Little Flower of East Orange, National Theatre Studio, R&D, 2013
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Antony and Cleopatra, RSC, 4 weeks, 2013
RESIDENT DIRECTOR, One Man, Two Guvnors, West End/NT, 6 weeks, 2013
STAFF DIRECTOR, The Effect, National Theatre, 14 weeks (in rep), 2012/2013
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Troilus and Cressida, RSC/Riverside Studios, 9 weeks, 2012
DIRECTOR, Bohemians, Etcetera, 2 performances, 2012
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Lay Down Your Cross, Hampstead, 2012
DIRECTOR, Alice, Jim and Janice, Theatre503, 2 performances, 2011
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Coronation of Poppea, King's Head, 6 weeks, 2011
DIRECTOR, Moony's Kid Don't Cry, King's Head, 2 weeks, 2011

Training

3 year director's trying with Sam Kogan in London and Moscow.

Springboard Programme with the Young Vic.

Trainee Resident Director with the King's Head.

Masterclasses and Workshops with the RSC, National Theatre Studio, Peter Brook.