Hetty Hodgson

she/they

I am a queer, neurodiverse, Jewish theatre-director, story teller and co-artistic director of multi-award winning Pigfoot, the first explicitly carbon-neutral theatre company in the UK.

I want to make work which is political but empowering & recognises the intersectionality of injustice and political issues, that roots back to the human, and uses storytelling to raise big issues in digestible, understandable, and accessible ways. Work that is crucially live in its necessity to spark discussion.

I’m interested in working with writers dramaturgically from an early stage of development. To make work which is politically responsive, challenging, accessible and want to work in ways which is collaborative and formally exciting. Music, design & form is front and centre of my work & collaborations from the get go.

I want to make work outside of London as well as in it and work which tours nationally. I believe theatre theatre can only reach it's full potential when spaces are created where everyone can do their best work, so I put access at the front and centre of every process I am leading, and am determined to continue learning about how to do this. My process is open & collaborative, and I believe many minds is always better than one.

https://hettyhodgson.com/

Credits

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Peak Stuff, Thick Skin, UK Tour, 2 Months
DIRECTOR, I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life, Mercury Theatre & Theatre 503, 2 Weeks
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Game Changers, Megaverse, 2023
DIRECTOR, HOT IN HERE, Gate Theatre, 3 weeks, 2023
DIRECTOR, Pepi and Me by Helena Snider, Camden Peoples Theatre, 1 night (in development) funded by Arts Council England 2022
CO-DIRECTOR, HOT IN HERE, UK Tour, 6 weeks, 2022
DIRECTOR, Yes Chef, Roundhouse, Unity & New Diorama, R&D funded by Arts Council England, 2021
PRODUCER, How To Save The Planet When You're A Young Carer and Broke by Nessah Muthy dir. Stef O'Driscoll, Tour incl. Roundhouse, Theatre Peckham & Community Spaces, 2 weeks, 2021
DIRECTOR, How To Save A Rock by Pigfoot, English Touring Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Pigfoot, 3 weeks, 2021
DIRECTOR, A Perverts Guide to the Internet by Sam Thorpe-Spinks, R&D, 2021
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Rhubarb Ghetto, VAULT Festival, 1 week, 2020
DIRECTOR, 'Screen' and 'Junction', Scratch at the Brockley Jack, 2019
DIRECTOR, Beats, Wiff Waff Bars, 3 performances & selected for the National Student Drama Festival at Paines Plough Roundabout, Leicester Curve (cancelled:2020) 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Miss Julie, North Eastern Tour, 1 month, 2019
DIRECTOR, Boys, Tour, 1 month, 2017/2018
DIRECTOR, Yen, Edinburgh Fringe, 1 month, 2018
DIRECTOR, Posh, Durham Debating Chamber, 3 performances, 2018
DIRECTOR, Five Kinds of Silence, City Theatre, 3 performances, 2017
DIRECTOR, Alfie, The Assembly Rooms Theatre, 3 performances 2016

Training

BA History - Durham University
Young Vic Springboard (2021)
National Student Drama Festival Lab (2021)