Neil Bartlett

portrait by Camilla Broadbent

Neil Bartlett makes work as a director, deviser, translator, adaptor, author and performer. Over the last twenty-five years his work in theatre and music-theatre has included controversial solo  and large-scale performance pieces as well as major productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National, the Royal Court, the Traverse in Edinburgh, the American Repertory Theatre in Boston , the Goodman in Chicago and the Aldeburgh Festival. His first book, published in 1988, was a pioneering reassessment of Oscar Wilde ; since then he has also written three acclaimed novels. In 1994 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith in London ; having left the Lyric in 2004 to resume his freelance career, he continues to break new ground both as an author and a theatre-maker….

The Pianist, Manchester International Festival 2007

The Maids: Brighton Festival 2007

Twelfth Night, RSC 2007

An Ideal Husband, 2008 Derbhle Crotty as Mrs. Cheveley

The Turn of the Screw Aldeburgh 2009

RECENT AND FORTHCOMING WORK

2009 

 An Ideal Husband  at The Abbey Theatre nominated for Best Director in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2009 ; Romeo and Juliet for the RSC ; The Pianist  at the Manchester Royal Exchange; Everybody loves a winner  for the Manchester International Festival; The Turn of the Screw at Aldeburgh.

2010

Directing The Girl I left Behind Me; a one-woman show for soprano Jessica Walker. Opera North, Leeds,May 14;Purcell Room , South Bank May 18; Brighton Festival  ( Theatre Royal) May 22 - www.operanorth.co.uk

An Evening with Bette Bourne - Neil and Bette in performance at the Brighton Festival Fringe, The Marlborough, Brighton, May 20th - www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk

Projects currently in development ; 

James Baldwin's "Giovanni's Room"  adapted and directed by Neil Bartlett, for BBC Radio 3;  transmission Autumn 2010. With Michael Feast, Derek Jacobi, Damien Lewis and Greta Scacchi,

OR YOU COULD KISS ME - a new play by Neil Bartlett and Handspring Theatre Company( creators of "Warhorse"). Written and directed by Neil Bartlett ;  opens at the Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre , London,  on October 5 2010

THE QUEEN OF SPADES, Tchaikovksy, for Opera North, Leeds - Autmn 2011