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Anthony Almeida

Director

Winner of the RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award (2019)

Inaugural Link Artist Stage Director, Royal Opera House (2017/19)

Resident Director, Almeida Theatre (2015)

Literary Assistantship, Bristol Old Vic (2012)

Made in Bristol Theatre maker Programme, Bristol Old Vic (2011)

Credits

include:

Figures of Speech, Almeida Theatre - a digital film series viewable at www.speech.almeida.co.uk

Co-director, Oresteia (as, Orestie) Staatstheater Stuttgart with Robert Icke

Second Chance, Birmingham Opera Company

Privileges, Young Vic (5 Plays)

The Changeling, Young Vic (Young Peoples Project)


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A range of projects in prisons; refugee detention centres; pupil referral units, and with young people, and early years

Script reader past/present: Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; Royal Court; Almeida Theatre; Bristol Old Vic; Hull Truck; Papatango Prize; Tobacco Factory Prize

Stagecraft coach for opera singers: Young Artists Programme (Royal Opera House); Voices of South Africa (Cape Town)

Location

London

Experience

10+ years

What I do

  • Devising
  • Dramaturgy
  • Languages
  • Working with young people
  • Writing

Additional Languages

German, Italian