Kirsty Housley

Kirsty Housley

Playwright, Director, Dramaturg

UK

Kirsty Housley (she/her) is a director, writer and dramaturg. She is directing the opening of the Bradford City of Culture in 2025 with Steven Frayne (Dynamo).

Her recent work includes: Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead (Co Director, Complicité, 2022/23); Jekyll & Hyde (National Theatre tour, 2024 and 2022); Horse (Co-Director of Live show with Imogen Knight) for Matthew Herbert, Edinburgh International Festival and Barbican); Hope (Director of Short Film for Clean Break), Extinct (Theatre Royal Stratford East, 2021); The Long Goodbye Livestream (Riz Ahmed/MIF/BAM, 2020), Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran (Traverse Theatre, Sundance Film Festival and Under The Radar fest NYC); Mephisto (A Rhapsodie) (Gate Theatre, 2019); Tao of Glass (Manchester International Festival and Royal Exchange Theatre, 2019); Avalanche (Barbican Theatre, as dramaturg); I'm A Phoenix, Bitch (Battersea Arts Centre, 2018); Myth (writer and director, RSC) and The Encounter (Complicité, Edinburgh International Festival, Warwick Arts Centre, Theatre Vidy, Bristol Old Vic, UK Tour, Broadway, 2015/16/17/18).

She was the recipient of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award for Cue Deadly, a Live Film Project, and the Title Pending award for innovation at Northern Stage. She jointly received The Stage award for Innovation in 2017 for The Encounter and was nominated again in 2018 for The Believers are but Brothers. She was an RSC digital fellow in 2022.

Shows worked on

Current as of September 2024

Kirsty Housley has worked with...

Peter Adams

Peter Adams

Worked with on ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen

Paul Anderson

Worked with on The Encounter

Immanuel Bartz

Immanuel Bartz

Worked with on ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen

Rike Berg

Rike Berg

Worked with on ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen

Erica Browne

Erica Browne

Worked with on ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen

Anna Clock

Anna Clock

Worked with on ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen

Will Duke

Worked with on The Encounter

Omar Elerian

Omar Elerian

Worked with on ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen

Gareth Fry

Worked with on The Encounter

Ethan Hudson

Ethan Hudson

Worked with on ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen

Jemima James

Worked with on The Encounter

Richard Katz

Richard Katz

Worked with on The Encounter

Michael Levine

Worked with on The Encounter

Axel Lischke

Axel Lischke

Worked with on ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen

Pete Malkin

Worked with on The Encounter

Simon McBurney

Simon McBurney

Worked with on The Encounter

Katja Rivas Pinzon

Katja Rivas Pinzon

Worked with on ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen

Jorge Andres Rivas Pinzon

Jorge Andres Rivas Pinzon

Worked with on ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen

Petru Popescu

Worked with on The Encounter

Stewart Pringle

Worked with on ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen

Derek Richards

Derek Richards

Worked with on ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen

Lotta Sahlstedt

Lotta Sahlstedt

Worked with on ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen

Jackie Shemesh

Worked with on ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen

Nassim Soleimanpour

Nassim Soleimanpour

Worked with on ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen

Rhys Velasquez

Rhys Velasquez

Worked with on ECHO: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen