Hannah Hauer-King

Hannah is an Olivier nominated and award winning director and dramaturg, with a focus on new writing, musicals and work focused on the female or LGBTQ+ 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 at Kiln Theatre.  Alongside her work with Damsel, she also works as a freelance theatre director, and has worked at venues including the National Theatre, the Kiln Theatre, 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).