Gitika Buttoo

Gitika is a Queer British Indian director from Yorkshire, currently based in Manchester. She graduated from Liverpool in 2016 with a BA Hons in Drama & English. Winner of the JMK Trust Bursary 2017, she became resident Assistant Director to James Brining at Leeds Playhouse. She then went on to work for The Octagon Theatre in Bolton as their Participations Director where she was Assistant Director on main house productions and also directed all their youth theatre productions. Her most recent credit as Director was for Beyond Shame by Karim Khan, 2018 at Derby Theatre. She became the Artistic Associate of Birmingham Opera Company in Summer 2018. After one year in the post she moved on to work with the National Theatre & CAST, Doncaster on Public Acts 2020. In 2022, Gitika finished her tenure as Staff Director at The National Theatre. She has recently been appointed Regional Associate of Tamasha and has been the full time Artistic Associate of Birmingham Opera Company and Associate Director of LUNG Theatre Company. Gitika was picked to be one of Headlong Theatre's Origins Directors has recently won Best Online Audio Production at the Off West End Awards (2023) and her work on Tanika Gupta’s play, Love N Stuff was nominated for Best Stage Production at the Asian Media Awards (2022). For any freelance enquiries contact - gitika111@hotmail.com

Credits

Credits

Director
Bhaijaan by Zoe Iqbal
Contact Theatre 2023

Director
CHAOS by Laura Lomas
Royal Exchange Theatre, Young Company 2023

Director
A Force To Be Reckoned With by Amanda Whittington
Mikron Theatre (National Tour) 2023

Director
Period Party by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
Tara Theatre 2023

Director
Reaction by Erinn Dhesi
National Theatre Immersive Storytelling Studio & Tamasha (R&D) VR Show 2023

Director
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Leeds Playhouse 2022

Director
ROAD by Jim Cartwright
Oldham Coliseum 2022

Staff Director
Father & The Assassin by Anupama Chandrasekhar
The National Theatre, The Olivier 2022

Director
Chop Chop by Afshan D'Souza Lodhi
Octagon Theatre, Bolton 2021 (rehearsed reading)

Director
Love n Stuff by Tanika Gupta
Watford Palace Theatre, Sheffield Theatres & Oldham Coliseum 2021 (Regional Tour)

Director
India Pale Ale by Jaclyn Backhaus
Octagon Theatre, Bolton 2021 (rehearsed reading)

Director
Disproportionately Affected (Monologues)
​Tara Theatre 2021

Director
The Jungle Book
Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre 2021

Director
Run(A)Way by Afshan D'Souza Lodhi
Young Vic (5 Plays Series) 2021

Director
Northern Girls
Pilot Theatre 2020

Associate & Assistant Director
The Caucasian Chalk Circle adapted by Chris Bush
The National Theatre & CAST (Public Acts 2020)

Associate Director
Trojan Horse by Helen Monks & Matt Woodhead
​UK Tour 2019

Artistic Associate
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Shostakovich
Birmingham Opera Company 2019
Set & Costume - Block 9
​Light - Giuseppe Di Lorio

Director
Beyond Shame written by Karim Khan
Derby Theatre 2018
Light, Set & Costume - George Leigh
​Sound - Adam McCready

Assistant Director
East is East written by Ayub-Khan Din
The Octagon Theatre 2018

Assistant Director
Ode To Leeds written by Zodwa Nyoni
Leeds Playhouse 2017

Training

EDUCATION: Drama & English (BA Hons) 2:1, Liverpool John Moores University. Graduated in 2016.

Introduction to Opera directing at The Royal Opera House in association with The Young Vic. 2018

RTYDS Director – Eclipse Theatre Sheffield (Intro to Directing) 2017

JMK Trust Award Winner 3 month placement (Assistant Director) 2017

FUSE Director – West Yorkshire Playhouse