Headlong theatre company appoints Joe Hill Gibbins as new artistic director
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Acclaimed director will take over from Jeremy Herrin at the UK touring company
Joe Hill-Gibbins has been appointed as the artistic director of the touring theatre company Headlong. He will take over the role this summer, succeeding Jeremy Herrin at the company whose past leaders include Rupert Goold.
An acclaimed director of both theatre and opera, Hill-Gibbins is directing his first mainstage production at English National Opera this month with The Marriage of Figaro. He is a former deputy artistic director of the Young Vic, where he directed Measure for Measure starring Romola Garai and featuring a pile of sex dolls, and a dark Midsummer Night’s Dream whose actors became caked in mud. His modern-dress revival of The Changeling was followed by a short film that he wrote and directed, entitled Bed Trick, made by the Guardian and the Young Vic. He also revived Absolute Hell and Edward II at the National Theatre and directed Alecky Blythe’s play about the 2011 UK riots, Little Revolution, at the Almeida. At the Royal Court theatre he assisted Dominic Cooke, Ian Rickson and James McDonald. Continue reading...
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