Samson Hawkins

I am a theatre director & playwright from rural south Northamptonshire now living on the canals of England in a narrowboat. I try to make work which identifies a universal truth, and then makes it explode. Due to being a rural working-class person who grew up with learning difficulties a lot of my early work is centered around these themes, though I don't want to be a 'rural working class' theatre director.

Things I believe:
All theatre should be community theatre.
All theatre should be accessible to everyone.
It's a director's job to make everyone else do their best work.
99% of plays would be improved if they had a song.

(He/Him)

Credits

Director, Mr Burns, Eton College, 1 Week June 2022
Director, The Laramie Project, Eton College, 1 Week February 2022
Director, Moby Dick, Eton College, 1 Week March 2021
Director, Death of a Salesman, 1 Week January 2021
Associate Director, The History of Everything, Oxford Playhouse 'Tent', 8 Weeks, 2019
Director, Dream Machine, Underbelly Edinburgh, 1 Week, 2019
Director, Lord of the Flies, Pegasis Theatre, 1 Week, 2019
Director, Bull, Oxford Playhouse BT Studio, 1 Week, 2019
Director, The Small Hours, Northwall Arts Centre, 1 Show, 2019
Director, Katie Johnson, The Orange Tree Theatre, 2 Weeks, 2018
Assistant Director, The Orange Tree Theatre (tour), 4 Weeks, 2018
Director, Bjork v Robots, The Orange Tree Studio, 1 Show, 2017
Director, Swan Bake, Soho Theatre & Edinburgh Fringe, 1 Month, 2017
Director, Gun Metal Blue, The Old Red Lion, 1 Week, 2017
Director, Dark Vanilla Jungle, 2 Weeks, 2017
Director, Sex With A Stranger, 1 Week, 2016

For more credits please view CV.

Training

MA Theatre Directing - The Orange Tree Theatre & St Mary's University
BA Acting - Italia Conti School of Acting
Cert HE Theatre Arts - East 15

Royal Court Writers Group & Soho Writers Lab Alumni
Little Angel Puppetry Course