Jade is an incredibly hot up and coming theatre director now working in audio and screen too, who has also turned her hand to writing. Jade was a Boris Karloff Trainee Assistant Director at the Young Vic, A Creative Associate at The Gate Theatre and Carne Literary Associate at Theatre 503. In 2022 she wrote and directed GET DRESSED! at The Unicorn Theatre, directed QUATER LIFE CRISIS at The Bridge theatre, co-created an original audio series World Of Curls with writer Yolanda Mercy for BBC Radio 4, and directed an audio drama NSA which was a part of Talawa Tales for also BBC Radio 4. Don’t miss Jade’s most recent work as director of the debut smash hit SLEEPOVA at the Bush Theatre.
WRITER AND DIRECTOR:
SWEAT by Lynn Nottage (Royal Exchange Theatre) 2024
Director
SLEEPOVA (Bush Theatre) 2023
Director
Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre at the 2024 Olivier Awards
Get Dressed (Caryl Jenner Productions/Unicorn Theatre) 2022
Writer and Director
NSA: Talawa Tales (BBC Radio4) 2021
Director
In Future We Are Astronauts (Arts Reach Trust/Curve Theatre) 2021
Director
The Ancestors (National Youth Theatre of Great Britain) 2021
Director
Living Newspaper: A Counternarrative (English Stage Company/The Royal Court) 2021
Director
NSA (Talawa Theatre Company/Feral Inc/Radio 4) 2021
Director
The Despards (Expectation Entertainment) 2021
Director
Quarter Life Crisis (Bridge Theatre) 2020
Director
World of Curls (Dora Productions/BBC Radio 4) 2020
Co-created, written and directed with Yolanda Mercy
‘Untitled’ Audible Project (LAMDA) 2019/2020
Director
Nine Night (LAMDA) 2020
Director
Superhoe (Royal Court/ Brighton Festival) 2019
Director
Astro Babies (Ovalhouse) 2019
Writer & Director
Twenty Twenty (Young Vic) 2019
Director
Extinguished Things (Summerhall/ Adelaide Fringe Festival) 2018
Director
Quarter Life Crisis (Underbelly/Soho/ Lagos Fringe Festival, Ake Book and Arts Festival, Nigeria) 2017 -2018
Director
On the Edge of Me (Soho/Rich Mix) 2016
Director
ASSISTANT/RESIDENT DIRECTOR:
Carne Literary Associate (Theatre 503) Currently
NT Connections Associate Director (National Theatre) 2021
Nine Night (National Theatre/Trafalgar Studios) 2019
a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) (Royal Court) 2019
The Convert (The Gate) 2017
Iphigenia Quartet (The Gate) 2016
Madness Sweet Madness (Martin Harris, Manchester/Lantern, Liverpool) 2015
Followers (Southwark Playhouse)
Venus/Mars (Old Red Lion/Bush) 2013