Katie Mitchell

Biography

Recent theatre includes: Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court); 4.48 Psychosis (Schauspielhaus, Hamburg); The Maids (Toneelgroep, Amsterdam); Shadows (Eurydice Speaks) (Schaubühne, Berlin); Cleansed (National Theatre); Ophelia’s Room (Schaubühne, Berlin and Royal Court); Reisende auf einem Bein (Schauspielhaus, Hamburg); Happy Days (Schauspielhaus, Hamburg); Brandstichter Festival: a remounting of five previous productions of Katie’s work (Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam); 2071 (Royal Court); The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic); The Forbidden Zone (Salzburg Festival & Schaubühne, Berlin); A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (Vienna Burgtheater); Lungs, The Yellow Wallpaper (Schaubühne, Berlin); Everything Else You Know from the Movies (Schauspielhaus, Hamburg); Say it with Flowers, The Trial of Ubu (Hampstead Theatre); Night Train (Schauspiel, Cologne & Avignon Festival & Theater Treffen), Ten Billion (Royal Court & Avignon Festival); Rings of Saturn, Waves (Schauspiel, Cologne) and Hansel & Gretel, A Woman Killed with Kindness (National Theatre).

Recent opera includes: Miranda (Opera Comique); Pelleas et Melisande (Aix-en-Provence Festival); Lucia di Lammermoor (Royal Opera House); Alcina (Aix-en-Provence Festival); The Way Back Home (ENO and Young Vic); Trauernacht and The House Taken Over (Aix-en-Provence Festival); Le Vin Herbe (Staatsoper, Berlin); Written on Skin (Aix-en-Provence Festival & Royal Opera House); Al Gran Sole Carico D’Amore (Staatsoper, Berlin & Salzburg Festival); Orest (De Nederlandse Opera) and Clemency (Royal Opera House).

Film and television includes: Room 915 (Warp and Film4); The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, Jenufa, Rough for Theatre 2 and The Turn of the Screw.

Katie has been an Associate Director at the RSC, National Theatre and The Royal Court Theatre. She was awarded an OBE in 2009 for services to drama and has recently been appointed as the Visiting Chair in Opera Studies at Oxford University for 2016-2017.