Katie Mitchell Chronology
Kings Head
Gobstopper
Hatikva the Hope
The Tron
Marie of Scotland
Abbey, Dublin
The Last Ones, Gorky
RSC assistant director
1988-1989
Much Ado about Nothing
The Man of Mode
The Plain Dealer
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Master Builder
King Lear (RSC/Almeida season)
Titus Andronicus (European tour)
Stars in the Morning Sky (RSC/Almeida season)
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Award 1989
Diarmuid and Graine(co-directed with Paul Allain), educational project touring rural areas in eastern Poland.
Classics on a Shoestring
Arden of Faversham (Old Red Lion, 1990)
Vassa Zheleznova (Gate, 1990)
Women of Troy, Euripides. Set design by Peter Ruthven Hall. Lighting design by Mark Ager and David Ludlum. Perf. Paul Brennen, Nicola Burnett Smith, Paola Dionisotti, Siobhan Fogarty, Barbara Flynn, Cate Hamer, Kristin Hewson, Kathryn Hunter, Cheryl Moskowitz, James Purefoy, Emma Rice, Susannah Rickards, Sadie Shimmin, Zara Turner. Classics on a Shoestring: Gate, London, 19 July1991.
House of Bernarda Alba, Lorca. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting design by Mark Ager and David Ludlum. Perf. Jill Brassington, Susan Brown, Dierdre Doon, Siobhan Fogarty, Alexandra Gilbreath, Kristin Hewson, Liz Kettle, Susan McGoun, Clare Malka, Dinah Stabb, Zoe Aldrich, Enna Assister, Anne Aylor, Jane Hampson, Yvonne Martin, Lolita Flores, Nancy Mohammed, Rosie Porter, Constance Byam Shaw. Classics on a Shoestring: Gate, 9 October 1992.
Freelance directing career
A Woman Killed With Kindness, Heywood. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting design by Mark Ager and David Ludlum. Perf. Kenn Sabberton, Valentine Pelka, Jonathan Cullen, Barry Lynch, Michael Maloney, Kevin Doyle, Michael Gould, Saskia Reeves, Sean Murray, Tim Hudson, Howard Crossley, Deborah Winckles, Emily Joyce, Sylvestra le Touzel, Gary Powell. RSC: The Other Place, Stratford, 29 October 1991; RSC: The Pit, London, 14 April 1992.
The Dybbuk, Solomon Anski. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting design by Mark Ager and David Ludlum. Perf. Patrick Carter, Richard Clothier, Charles Daish, Virginia Denham, Andrew Dumbleton, Rob Edwards, Susan Engel, Michael Gould, Ben Livingstone, Charles Lewsen, Peter Needham, Simon Packham, Alan Partington, Joanne Pearce, Ruth Posner, Sian Radinger, Chrissy Roberts, Kenn Sabberton, Merlin Shepherd, John Shrapnel, Stephen Webber, Henry Webster, Deborah Winckles, Angus Wright. RSC: The Pit, London, 14 July 1992.
Live Like Pigs, Arden. Lighting design by Tina MacHugh. Classics on a Shoestring: Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, 22 October 1993.
Ghosts Ibsen, Set design by Vicki Mortimer, Lighting design by Tina MacHugh. Perf. Alexandra Gilbreath, John Normington, John Carlisle, Jane Lapotaire, Simon Russell Beale. RSC: The Other Place, Stratford, 10 June 1993; RSC: The Pit, London, 1994.
Rutherford & Son, Sowerby. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting design by Tina MacHugh. Perf. Brid Brennan, Sean Chapman, Wayne Foskett, Jenny Howe, Tom Mannion, Phoebe Nicholls, Bob Peck, June Watson. National Theatre: Cottesloe, 2 June 1994
Henry VI Part 3[called Henry VI: The Battle for the Throne] Shakespeare. Set design by Rae Smith. Lighting design by Tina MacHugh. Perf. Nick Bagnall, Dugqald Bruce-Lockhart, Declan Conlon, Jonathan Firth, Chris Garner, Jamie Hinde, John Keegan, Liz Kettle, Ruth Mitchell, Lloyd Owen, Stephen Simms, Jo Stone-Fewings, Tom Walker, Tam Williams. RSC: The Other Place, Stratford, 10 August 1994.
Easter Strindberg. Set design by Rosa Maggiora. Lighting design by Chris Davey. Perf. Heather Ackroyd, Adrian Rawlins, Susan Brown, Daniel Betts, Lucy Whybrow, Philip Locke. RSC: The Pit, London, 25 January 1995.
The Machine Wreckers, Ernst Toller. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting design by Tina MacHugh. Perf. Richard Bremmer, Colin Tierney, John Rogan, Lizzie McPhee, Nick Bagnall, Elaine Claxton, Crispin Letts, Ron Cook, Declan Conlon, Karl Johnson, Danny Sapani, Jonathan Slinger, Jem Wall, Paola Dionisotti, Jude Akuwudike, Henry Ian Cusick, John McEnery, Brid Brennan. National Theatre: Cottesloe, 11 August 1995
The Phoenician Women, Euripides. Set design by Vicki Mortimer and Rae Smith. Lighting design by Tina MacHugh. Perf. Lorraine Ashbourne, Darlene Johnson, Lucy Whybrow, Antony Byrne, Rachel Clarke, Siobhan Fogarty, Daniel Goode, Michael Gould, Alice Hogg, Dermot Kerrigan, Christopher Middleton, Sean Murray, Lisé Stevenson, Peter Copley. RSC: The Other Place, 24 October 1995; RSC: The Pit, London, 26 June 1996
Endgame, Beckett. Set design by Rae Smith. Lighting design by Chris Davey. Perf. Alun Armstrong, Stephen Dillane, Harry Jones, Eileen Nicholas. Donmar Warehouse, London, 17 April 1996.
The Mysteries, adapt Ed Kemp. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting design by Nigel Edwards. Perf. Josette Bushell-Mingo, Declan Conlon, Paul Hamilton, Paul Hilton, Kristin Hutchinson, Johnny Lodi, Richard Lynch, Myra McFadyen, Ruth Mitchell, Joseph Mydell, Peter Needham, David Ryall, Tristan Sturrock, Edward Woodall. RSC: The Other Place,Stratford, 7 March 1997; RSC: The Pit, London, 21 January 1998.
Beckett Shorts [two programmes: Out of the Dark, comprising Footfalls, Rockaby, Not I, and Over the Years, comprising Embers, A Piece of Monologue, That Time], Beckett. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting design by Paule Constable. Perf. Juliet Steven son, Debra Gillett, Nigel Cooke. RSC: The Other Place, 29 October 1997;
Uncle Vanya, Chekhov. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting by Paule Constable. Perf. Malcolm Sinclair, Anastasia Hille, Jo McInnes, Cherry Morris, Stephen Dillane, Linus Roache, Tom Bowles, Antonia Pemberton, Orlando Seale. RSC: Young Vic, 1 April 1998.
Attempts on Her Life in Italy, 1999
The Maids, Genet. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting design by Nigel Edwards. Perf. Angela Clerkin, Anastasia Hille, Aisling O’Sullivan. Young Vic, London, 6 July 1999.
The Oresteia[comprising The Home Guard and The Daughters of Darkness]. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting by Nigel Edwards. Perf. Lilo Baur, Robert Bowman, Michael Gould, Sebastian Harcombe, Anastasia Hille, Paul Hilton, Melissa Holding, Wendy Kweh, Ineke Lievens, Joy Richardson, Asta Sighvats, Joe Townsend. National Theatre: Cottesloe, 1 December 1999.
The Country, Crimp. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting design by Paule Constable. Perf. Owen Teale, Juliet Stevenson, Indira Varma. Royal Court, London, 16 May 2000.
Mountain LanguageAshes to Ashes, Pinter. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting design by Paule Constable. Perf. Gabrielle Hamilton, Anastasia Hille, Neil Dudgeon, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Paul Hilton, Paul Cerqueira, Tim Treloar. Royal Court, London, 26 June 2001.
Nightsongs, Jon Fosse. Lighting by Paule Constable. Perf. Jonathan Cullen, Gillian Hanna, Paul Higgins, Sophie Okonedo, Christopher Saul. Royal Court, London, 27 February 2002.
Face to the Wall, Crimp. Lighting by Paule Constable. Perf. Gillian Hanna, Paul Higgins, Sophie Okonedo, Peter Wight. Royal Court, London, 14 March 2002.
Ivanov, Chekhov. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting design by Paule Constable. Perf. Owen Teale, Stuart McQuarrie, Juliet Aubrey, Philip Voss, Robert Bowman, Peter Wight, Gillian Hanna, Indira Varma, Sean Jackson, Sarah Northgraves, Sarah Flind, Christopher Hunter, Janet Whiteside, Tom Peters. National Theatre: Cottesloe, 16 September 2002.
Three Sisters, Chekhov. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting design by Paule Constable. Thomas Arnold, Lorraine Ashbourne, Eve Best, Ben Daniels, Peter Eastland, Beth Fitzgerald, Hugh Futcher, Patrick Godfrey, Paul Hilton, Sean Jackson, Tim McMullan, Fiona Mason, Anna Maxwell Martin, Peter Needham, Antonia Pemberton, Dominic Rowan, Michael Sheldon, Lucy Whybrow, Angus Wright. National: Lyttelton, 14 August 2003.
Iphigenia in Aulis, Abbey, Dublin , 2003
Iphigenia in Aulis, Euripides.Set design by Hildegard Bechtler. Lighting design by Chris Davey. Ben Daniels, Peter Needham, Annamaria Adams, Kristin Hutchinson, Helena Lymbery, Penelope McGhie, Sarah Malin, Charlotte Roach, Susie Trayling, Dominic Rowan, Kate Duchêne, Hattie Morahan, Justin Salinger, Sean Jackson, Martin Hodgson. National Theatre: Lyttelton, 22 June 2004.
Forty Winks, Kevin Elyot. Set design by Hildegard Bechtler. Lighting by Paule Constable. Perf. Anastasia Hille, Stephen Kennedy, Carey Mulligan, Paul Ready, Dominic Rowan, Simon Wilson. Royal Court, London, 3 November 2004.
A Dream Play, Strindberg. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting design by Chris Davey. Mark Arends, Anastasia Hille, Kristin Hutchinson, Sean Jackson, Charlotte Roach, Dominic Rowan, Justin Salinger, Susie Trayling, Lucy Whybrow, Angus Wright. National Theatre: Cottesloe, 14? February 2005.
The Seagull, Chekhov. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting design by Chris Davey. Juliet Stevenson, Ben Whishaw, Gawn Grainger, Hattie Morahan, Michael Gould, Liz Kettle, Sandy McDade, Mark Bazeley, Angus Wright, Justin Salinger, Sean Jackson, James Bolt, Beth Fitzgerald, Jonah Russell. London: Lyttelton, 26? June 2006.
Waves, Woolf/devised by the company. Designed by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting design by Paule Constable. Perf. Kate Duchene, Michael Gould, Anastasia Hille, Kristin Hutchinson, Sean Jackson, Liz Kettle, Paul Ready, Jonah Russell.
Attempts on Her Life, Crimp. Set design by Vicki Mortimer. Lighting designer by Paule Constable. Claudie Blakley, Kate Duchêne, Michael Gould, Liz Kettle, Jacqueline Kington, Dina Korzun, Helena Lymbery, Paul Ready, Jonah Russell, Zubin Varla, Sandra Voe. National Theatre: Lyttelton, 8 March 2007.
Women of Troy, Euripides. Set design by Bunny Christie. Lighting design by Paule Constable and Jon Clark. Rachel Clarke, Pandora Colin, Kate Duchêne, Laura Elphinstone, Beth Fitzgerald, Michael Gould, Anastasia Hille, Mark Holgate, Stephen Kennedy, Helena Lymbery, Sinead Matthews, Penelope McGhie, Charlotte Roach, Jonah Russell, Susie Trayling. National Theatre: Lyttelton, November 2007.
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