JOSEPH ALFORD

Director / Movement Director

Joseph is the Artistic Director of Theatre O.  He studied at the Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq and has a BA (Hons) in Drama & English from the University of East Anglia.  He is a theatre maker, director and movement director.

Work as Director includes:

Handel’s Adriodante and Willian Walton’s The Bear
Det Kongelige Teater Opera Academy, Copenhagen

Syllable
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

La Finta Giadiniera
The Royal Danish Theatre

Cosi Fan Tutte            
Det Kongelige Teater, Copenhagen

Alcina
Bolshoi, Moscow
Revival Director & Movement
Original Dir. Katie Mitchell

The Secret Agent
Theatre O / Young Vic

The Man Jesus
Starring Simon Callow
Lyric Belfast & National Tour

Delirium
Theatre O / Barbican

The Bridge
Mimbre

Arsenic and Old Lace
Derby Playhouse

Astronaut
Theatre O / Barbican

The Argument
Theatre O / Barbican

3 Dark Tales
Theatre O

 

Work as Movement Director includes:

The Mirror Crack’d  
Salisbury Playhouse, Wiltshire Creative/Wales Millenium Forum (dir: Melly Still)

Jenufa
DNO, Amsterdam (dir: Katie Mitchell)

Ariadne                                                       
Festival D’Aix en Provence (dir. Katie Mitchell)

Girls & Boys
Royal Court & Broadway (dir: Lyndsey Turner)

Lessons in Love and Violence                         
ROH (Dir. Katie Mitchell)

Miranda
Opera Comique, Paris (dir: Katie Mitchell)

Common
National Theatre (dir: Jeremy Herrin)

Oil
Almeida Theatre (dir: Carrie Cracknell)

Pelleas et Melisande
Festival D’Aix en Provence (dir: Katie Mitchell)

Blue/Orange
Young Vic (dir: Matthew Xia)

Lucia di Lammermoor
ROH (dir: Katie Mitchell)

Cleansed
National Theatre (dir: Katie Mitchell)

Light Shining in Buckinghamshire                           
National Theatre  (dir. Lyndsey Turner)

Alcina                                                                                         
Festival d’Aix en Provence  (dir. Katie Mitchell)

Happy Days                                                                                       
Young Vic (dir. Natalie Abrahami)

The Cherry Orchard
Young Vic (dir. Katie Mitchell)

How the Whale Became
ROH2 (dir. Natalie Abrahami)

Hamlet
RSC (dir. David Farr)

Hansel & Gretel
National Theatre (dir. Katie Mitchell)

Blackta
Young Vic (dir. David Lan)

Playhouse
Orange Tree Theatre (dir. Martin Crimp)

The Trial of Ubu
Hampstead Theatre (dir. Katie Mitchell)

A Woman Killed with Kindness
National Theatre (dir. Katie Mitchell)

Clemency
ROH2 (dir. Katie Mitchell)

Beauty and the Beast
National Theatre (dir. Katie Mitchell)

Dancing at Lughnasa
Clwyd (dir. Kate Wasserberg)

Idomeneo
English National Opera (dir. Katie Mitchell)

The Cat in the Hat
National Theatre (dir. Katie Mitchell)

Midsummer Night’s Dream
English Touring Opera (dir. James Conway)

Work as Associate/Co-Director includes:

The Way Back Home
Associate Director (dir. Katie Mitchell)
ENO / Young Vic

Footfalls/Neither
Associate Director (dir. Katie Mitchell)
Staatsoper, Berlin

Le Vin Herbé
Associate Director (dir. Katie Mitchell)
Staatsoper, Berlin

Sick Room
Co-Director
National Youth Theatre

As Performer:

Origins
Pentabus (dir. Orla O’loughlin)

Delirium
Theatre O / Barbican

How much is your Iron?
Young Vic (dir. Orla O’loughlin)

The Argument
Theatre O/Barbican

3 Dark Tales
Theatre O