Kirsty Housley is a director, writer and dramaturg. She won the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award in 2003 for Cue Deadly:  A Live Film Project and was twice nominated for the stage award for innovation (winning in 2017 for The Encounter)

Recent work includes The Long Goodbye with Riz Ahmed for MIF/BAM; Mephisto (A Rhapsody) at The Gate Theatre; Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran at The Traverse, HOME Manchester and BAC (co-created with Javaad Alipoor); Tao of Glass for Manchester International Festival; Avalanche: A Love Story at The Barbican and Sydney Theatre (Dramaturg); Phillip Pullman’s Grimm Tales at The Unicorn; I’m a Phoenix, Bitch for Bryony Kimmings; Misty at The Bush and the West End (Dramaturg); Myth at the RSC (co-written with Matt Hartley); A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer for Complicite, National Theatre and HOME Manchester (as dramaturg in 2017, and as writer director on 2018 international tour) Wanted and 9  for Chris Goode and Company, Transform Festival and West Yorkshire Playhouse (co-director); Walking the Tightrope for Offstage and Theatre Uncut; All I Want for Live Theatre, Leeds Libraries and Jackson’s Lane; Mass for Amy Mason at Bristol Old Vic and Camden Peoples Theatre; The Beauty Project and Theatre Uncut 2012 at the Young Vic; How to be Immortal for Penny Dreadful at Soho Theatre and on tour; Bandages at the Corn Exchange Newbury and on tour; Thirsty for The Paper Birds and Blue Jam for Etcetera Theatre Company. 

Kirsty is currently developing new work with The National Theatre, Complicite, Clean Break and Hampstead Theatre.

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