Bijan Sheibani
Bijan Sheibani is a British-Iranian theatre director. He is Artistic Director of ATC Theatre.
His production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size was greeted with universal acclaim and was variously described by UK critics as “Psychologically subtle and emotionally powerful“ (The Times), “faultless” (The Guardian) and “outstanding” (The Evening Standard).His Olivier-award winning production of Gone Too Far! returned to the Royal Court Theatre in 2008 and ATC co-produced the pan London tour to The Albany and the Hackney Empire.
In 2009 he directed Tarantula in Petrol Blue, a new opera, at Aldeburgh Music Festival. In the same year he will direct two London-based productions. Rebecca Lenkiewicz's new version of Ghosts or Those Who Return, an ATC/ Arcola Theatre co-production will run at the Arcola Theatre London from July 22 - August 22, and Our Class, a new play Tadeusz Slobodzianek which will premiere at the NT in September.
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[edit] Credits
- Greenland (2011, Lytelton Theatre)
- Our Class by Tadeusz Slobodzianek (2009, Cottesloe Theatre)
- Ghosts or Those Who Return (2009, Arcola Theatre)
- Tarantula in Petrol Blue (2009, Aldeburgh Music Festival)
- The Brothers Size (2007, Young Vic and Tour/ 2008 Young Vic, UK Tour and Arcola Theatre Istanbul)
- Gone Too Far (2007, Royal Court Theatre/ 2008 Hackney Empire/Albany)
- Antigone (2006, NT studio - workshop)
- Fixer (2006 Almeida Theatre)
- Other Hands (2006,, Soho Theatre)
- Last Summer At Chulimsk (2006, Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast - reading)
- Breath (2006, BAC)
- Crime of the Twenty-first Century (2006, NT studio)
- Amnesia (2006, Royal Court Theatre - reading)
- Schlafengehn (2004, Royal Court Theatre - reading)
- Flush (2004, Soho Theatre)
- The Clink (2003, Rose Bruford College)
- Party Time/One for the Road (2003, BAC)
- Have I None (2002, Southwark Playhouse)
- The Stoning (2002, BAC - reading)
- Summer (2002, Lion & Unicorn Theatre)
- Peace For Our Time (2002, City of Westminster College)
- The Lover (2000, Burton Taylor Theatre, Oxford)
[edit] Assistant director credits
- The Tempest (2007, Royal Opera House)
- Cinderella (2006, China Children's National Theatre)
- The Tempest (2005, Copenhagen Opera House)
- As You Like It (2005, Young Vic/ Wyndham's Theatre)
- After The Fire (2005, Olivier Theatre NT - reading)
- The Black Glove (2005, Olivier Theatre NT - reading)
- A Dream Play (2005, NT)
- Twelfth Night (2004, English Touring Theatre)
- Primo (2004, NT studio - workshop)
- The Io Passion (2004, Almeida Theatre)
- Terrorism (2003, Royal Court Theatre)
[edit] Background
Sheibani was born in Liverpool, and raised in Brighton and was schooled at Brighton College. He studied English Literature at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and holds an MA in advanced theatre practice from the Central School of Speech and Drama.
