Katie Mitchell

Director

Agent

Julia Kreitman

RECENT OPERA DIRECTING CREDITS INCLUDE:

Opera

LA VOIX HUMAINE 2023
Opera Du Rhin, Strasbourg

THEODORA 2022
Royal Opera House,  London

BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE 2020
Bavarian State Opera (combing live opera with pre-recorded film)

DICHTERLIEBE
Bouffe du Nord, Paris.( a music theatre project with composer Bernard Focroulle)

JENUFA 2018
Nationale Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam

ARIADNE AUF NAXOS 2018
Aix-en-Provence Festival, France

LESSONS IN LOVE AND VIOLENCE 2018
Royal Opera House, London

MIRANDA 2017
Music by Purcell Opera Comique, Paris

PELLEAS ET MELISANDE 2016
Aix-en-Provence Festival, France

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR 2016
Royal Opera House, London

ALCINA 2015
Ai-en-Provence Festival, France

THE WAY BACK HOME 2014
English National Opera/ Young Vic, London

TRAUERNACHT 2014
Aix-en-Provence Festival, France

NEITHER 2014
Staatsoper Opera, Berlin

THE HOUSE TAKEN OVER 2013
Aix-en-Provence Festival, France

LE VIN HERBE 2013
Staatsoper, Berlin

WRITTEN ON SKIN 2013
Aix-en-Provence Festival, France
Co-production with the ROH & Dutch National Opera

AL GRAN SOLE CARICO D’AMORE 2012
Staatsoper, Berlin & Salzburg Festival

OREST 2011
Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam

CLEMENCY 2011
Royal Opera House, London

IDOMENEO 2010
English National Opera, London

JEPHTHA 2010
Royal Danish Theatre & Welsh National Opera

PARTHENOGENESIS 2009
Royal Opera House, London

 

RECENT THEATRE CREDITS INCLUDE:

BLUETS from Maggie Nelson 2024
Royal Court

THE TREES
Hamburg Schauspielhaus, 2022

LITTLE SCRATCH, adapted by Miriam Battye from Rebecca Watson, 2021
Hampstead Theatre, London

A PLAY FOR THE LIVING IN A TIME OF EXTINCTION by Miranda Rose Hall, 2021
Vidy, Lausanne and international partners
A sustainable theatre project

(NOT) THE END OF THE WORLD by Chris Bush, 2021
Schaubuhne Theatre, Berlin

ORLANDO, adapted by Alice Bitch from Virginia Wolf 2019
Schaubuhne Theatre, Berlin

NORMA JEAN BAKER OF TROY by Anne Carson 2019
with Renee Fleming and Ben Wishaw opened THE SHED a new multi-media venue in New York

BLUETS from Maggie Nelson 2019
Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg

WHEN WE HAVE SUFFICIENTLY FINISHED TORTURING EACH OTHER by Martin Crimp 2019
with Cate Blanchett
National Theatre, London

SLEEPING MEN by Martin Crimp 2018
Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg

LA MALADIE DE LA MORT 2018
adapted by Alice Birch from Marguerite Duras Bouffes du Nord, Paris

ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE by Alice Birch 2017 Royal Court Theatre, London

4:48 PSYCHOSIS by Sarah Kane 2017 Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg

THE MAIDS by Jean Genet 2016
Toneelgroep, Amsterdam

SHADOWS (EURYDICE SPEAKS) by Elfriede Jelinek 2016
Schaubühne, Berlin

CLEANSED by Sarah Kane 2016
National Theatre, London

OPHELIA’S ROOM 2015
Schaubühne, Berlin and Royal Court, London, co-production

REISENDE AUF EINEM BEIN by Herta Muller2015
Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg

HAPPY DAYS by Samuel Beckett 2015
Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg

BRANDSTICHTER FESTIVAL 2015
The retrospective of Katie’s work
Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam

2071 by Duncan MacMillan and Chris Rapley 2014
The Royal Court Theatre, London

THE CHERRY ORCHARD by Anton Chekhov 2014
The Young Vic Theatre, London

THE FORBIDDEN ZONE by Duncan MacMillan 2014
Salzburg Festival, Austria

A SORROW BEYOND DREAMS Peter Handke 2013
Burgtheater,Vienna

LUNGS by Duncan MacMillan 2013
Schaubühne, Berlin

ALLES WEITERE KENNEN SIE AUS DEM KINO 2013
A new version of ‘The Phoenician Women’ by Martin Crimp Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 2013
Schaubühne, Berlin

SAY IT WITH FLOWERS 2013
based on the writings of Gertrude Stein Hampstead Theatre, London

REISE DURCH DIE NACHT 2012
Adaption of the F. Mayrocker book
Schauspielhaus, Avignon Festival & Theater Treffen

TEN BILLION 2012
Royal Court Theatre, London & Avignon Festival

RINGS OF SATURN 2012
Based upon W.G Sebald’s novel Schauspielhaus, Cologne

HANSEL & GRETEL 2012
Director & Co-Adaptor with Lucy Kirkwood
National Theatre, London

THE TRIAL OF UBU by Simon Stephens 2012
Hampstead Theatre, London

WASTWATER by Simon Stephens 2011
Royal Court Theatre, London & Vienna Festwochen

THE SEAGULL by Anton Chekhov 2011
Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen

DIE WELLEN by Virginia Woolf 2011
Schauspielhaus, Cologne

A WOMAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS by Thomas Heywood 2011
National Theatre, London

MISS JULIE by August Strindberg 2011
Schaubühne, Berlin & Avignon Festival

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 2010
Director and co-writer with Lucy Kirkwood
National Theatre, London

PAINS OF YOUTH 2009-2010
By Ferdinand Bruckner in a new version by Martin Crimp National Theatre, London

WUNSCHKONZERT by Franz Xaver Kroetz 2008
Schauspielhaus, Cologne

SOME TRACE OF HER 2008
Based on Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot
National Theatre, London

PREVIOUS OPERA CREDITS INCLUDE:

THE SACRIFICE (Welsh National Opera); ST MATTHEW’S PASSION (Glyndebourne); AFTER DIDO (ENO/Young Vic); KATYA KABANOVA & JENUFA (Welsh National Opera).

PREVIOUS THEATRE CREDITS INCLUDE:

At the Royal National Theatre: THE CAT IN THE HAT (Seuss/Lucy Kirkwood); ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE (Martin Crimp); WAVES (Virginia Woolf); A DREAM PLAY (Strindberg – In a version by Caryl Churchill); WOMEN OF TROY & IPHIGENIA AT AULIS (Euripides); THE SEAGULL, THREE SISTERS & IVANOV (Chekhov); THE ORESTEIA (Version by Ted Hughes); THE MACHINE WRECKERS (Ernst Toller); RUTHERFORD & SON (Githa Sowerby).

At the Royal Shakespeare Company: UNCLE VANYA (Chekhov); BECKETT SHORTS (Beckett); THE PHOENICIAN WOMEN (Euripides); EASTER (Strindburg); HENRY VI (Shakespeare); GHOSTS (Ibsen); THE DYBBUK (Ansky); A WOMAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS (Thomas Heywood); STARS IN THE MORNING SKY (Alexander Galin).

At the Royal Court Theatre: THE CITY & THE COUNTRY (both by Martin Crimp); FORTY WINKS (Kevin Elyot); NIGHTSONGS (Jon Fosse); MOUNTAIN LANGUAGE/ASHES TO ASHES (Pinter).

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