Jade Lewis

Director, Writer

Agent

Hannah Boulton

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), In development
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

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