Steven Atkinson
Artistic Director 2007-Present

Steven co-founded HighTide Festival Theatre and is its Artistic Director and joint Chief Executive. 

Hear Steven talk with theatreVOICE about HighTide and the Financial Times about playwriting.  

He was Literary Manager of Hull Truck Theatre 2006-07, and he graduated from Reading University in 2005 with a BA in Film & Theatre. 

Direction for HighTide Festival Theatre:

Neighbors by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Nuffield Theatre, HighTide Festival); Bottleneck by Luke Barnes (Soho Theatre, UK tour, Edinburgh Festival); Clockwork by Laura Poliakoff (HighTide Festival); Bethany by Laura Marks (HighTide Festival with the Public Theater); Incoming by Andrew Motion (House of Commons, Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Latitude Festival, HighTide Festival); Dusk Rings A Bell by Stephen Belber (Watford Palace Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, HighTide Festival); Lidless by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (West End, Edinburgh Festival, HighTide Festival); Muhmah by Jesse Weaver (HighTide Festival), and The Pitch by Nick Payne (Latitude Festival). 

Other Direction Includes:

Three Card Trick by Luke Barnes, James Harker, Joe Ward Munrow (Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse); The Afghan and the Penguin by Michael Hastings (BBC Radio 4); Freedom Trilogy by various (Hull Truck Theatre); Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet (Edinburgh Festival).

Awards:

2012 and 2010 Fringe First Awards for Educating Ronnie and Lidless; two SOLT Stage One Bursaries for Lidless and Stovepipe; 2009 Whatsonstage Award nomination for Best Off-West End Production (Stovepipe); and Esquire’s Brilliant Brits 2009.