Hannah Hauer-King

Hannah is a double Olivier Award-nominated director and dramaturg, with a focus on new writing and work centred on underrepresented aspects of the female or queer experience. She started her career as Resident Assistant Director at Soho Theatre, and went on to form all women theatre company Damsel Productions, who recently produced critically acclaimed, sell-out show The Ministry Of Lesbian Affairs. She was recently Resident Director at National Theatre Studio and is currently directing the National Theatre’s schools tour of Bacchae. Outside the National, she has worked at venues including the Barbican Theatre, the Kiln Theatre, Southbank Centre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Regents Park Open Air, the Other Palace, Soho Theatre, and Traverse Theatre. As a dramaturg she has supported the Soho Young Writer’s Lab, and read for the Verity Bargate Award, the National Theatre’s script reading panel and the Women’s Playwrighting Prize.

Directing work includes: Bacchae (National Theatre Outreach Tour); The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Kiln Theatre & Soho Theatre); Olivier nominated The Swell (Orange Tree Theatre); Offie winning The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria (Arcola Theatre / New York off-broadway transfer to 59E59); The Funeral Director (Southwark Playhouse & UK Tour 2019); Fabric (Soho Theatre), Call Me Fury (Hope Theatre); The Amber Trap (Theatre 503); Grotty (Bunker Theatre); Clay (Pleasance Theatre); Dry Land (Jermyn Street Theatre).

Cabaret and Comedy works includes: Witt n Camp (Soho Theatre); Siblings (Crazy Coqs); Lilith (Bunker Theatre).

Associate / Assistant work includes: Bacchae (National Theatre); Fiddler On The Roof (Barbican Theatre transfer/Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Wife of Willesden (Kiln Theatre/Art Boston and BAM NY); Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Daytona (Park Theatre/Theatre Royal Haymarket); Radiant Vermin (Soho Theatre); Titus Andronicus (Greenwich Theatre).