Kirsty Housley

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.