Directors on Attachment
Jonathan Humphreys
For HighTide: Moscow Live (HighTide Festival 2010).
Other directing includes: Father’s Son (NT Studio); Mojo Mickybo (Arcola/West End); Maratona de Nova Iorque (Teatro Oficina, Portugal); Even Rats Can Tapdance (Royal Court International Residency); and Observations (Theatre 503 at Latitude).
He was director on attachment to the Royal Court casting department and directed The Freelancers for Old Vic New Voices 24 Hour Plays. He was Staff Director on The Pitmen Painters, Gethsemane and All’s Well that Ends Well (all NT) and Assistant Director on The Voysey Inheritance (NT) and I’ll Be The Devil (RSC).
Richard Twyman
For HighTide: Ditch (HighTide / The Old Vic), Ditch (HighTide Festival 2010).
Other directing includes: Henry IV Part II (RSC/Roundhouse), The Abandoned City (Royal Court Int. Residency); Architect & Emperor of Assyria (Gate); Brassed Off (York Theatre Royal); A Desire to Kill on the Tip of the Tongue (Edinburgh Fringe); Julius Caesar (Guildhall); Romeo & Juliet (Ancient Odeon, Paphos).
Richard was the Associate Director on the acclaimed RSC Histories Cycle (Richard II, Henry IV Pt I, Henry V, Henry VI Pt I, II, III & Richard III) which won Olivier Awards for Best Revival, Best Ensemble & Best Costume and the Evening Standard Editor’s Choice Award.
As Assistant Director: Othello, Sejanus, Thomas More, Breakfast With Mugabe (RSC/West End); Just a Bloke (Royal Court); Mariana Pineda (Gate).
Natalie Abrahami
For HighTide: Guardians (HighTide Festival 2009).
Natalie is joint Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre London, where she has directed: Unbroken, Women in Love, The Internationalist, and The Car Cemetery.
Other directing credits include Alexandra Wood’s The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court), Samuel Beckett’s Play and Not I (BAC), and Amélie Nothomb’s Human Rites (Southwark Playhouse). Natalie won the James Menzies-Kitchin Director’s Award in 2005 for her production of Play and Not I.
Nathan Curry
For HighTide: Fixer (HighTide Festival 2009).
Nathan is Artistic Director of award-winning theatre ensemble tangled feet. He is also Associate Director of The Bush Theatre.
As Director: Romeo & Juliet (Wimbledon Studio Theatre), Bufonidae (Bush Theatre), Movieplex (Watch This Space Festival, National Theatre), Game? (Southwark Playhouse, Edinburgh Fringe and UK Tour), Weapons of Happiness (Finborough Theatre), Ya Get Me? (Old Vic Theatre Tour), Emily’s Kitchen (Edinburgh Fringe), Lost Property (Edinburgh Fringe, UK and International Tour) and Catching Dust (Edinburgh Fringe, UK and International Tour). As Assistant Director: A Moon for the Misbegotten (Broadway and The Old Vic), As Staff Director: The Life of Galileo (Olivier, National Theatre).
Lucy Kerbel
For HighTide: I Caught Crabs in Walberswick (HighTide Festival 2008, Edinburgh Festival 2008, Bush Theatre).
Michael Longhurst
For HighTide: Midnight Your Time (HighTide:Studio - HighTide Festival 2010), Stovepipe (HighTide / National Theatre / Bush Theatre), Stovepipe (HighTide Festival 2008).
Emily Watson Howes
For HighTide: Certain Dark Things (HighTide Festival 2008, Edinburgh Festival 2009).
Kate Wasserberg
For HighTide: Switzerland (HighTide Festival 2008).
Seb Armesto
For HighTide: Assembly (HighTide Festival 2007)
Adam Barnard
For HighTide: You Were After Poetry (HighTide Festival 2007)
Polly Findlay
For HighTide: Oscar and Jim (HighTide Festival 2007)
Rachel Grunwald
For HighTide: Weightless (HighTide Festival 2007)
Tom Littler
For HighTide: VII/VII (HighTide Festival 2007)
Mary Nighy
For HighTide: Lyre (HighTide Festival 2007)
Dan Sherer
For HighTide: Inside Out (HighTide Festival 2007)
Anne Tipton
For HighTide: Ned & Sharon (HighTide Festival 2007)
Get Involved
We are always looking to form relationships with new directors and welcome all invitations to see work throughout the year.
If you are interested in directing at HighTide, please email Steven Atkinson with details of your previous experience and any forthcoming productions.
Please note that due to overwhelming demand it is unlikely that a director will be appointed to work with HighTide if we have not previously seen their work.



