Lily McLeishdirector + curator
 

BIOGRAPHY


Lily McLeish is an award winning English-German theatre director, currently based in Germany. She read English Literature and Art History at the University of Cologne. She trained at the National Theatre Director's Course in London and with internationally renowned director Katie Mitchell, working as her associate for 10 years on over 25 productions. 


Awards
OFFIE Award for Best Theatre Online, 2021
London Pub Theatre Award for Online Theatre, 2021
Best New Audio Fiction Award, New York, 2020
Origins Award for Outstanding New Work, 2017


directing

2021

Die Gelbe Tapete after Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Galerie Seippel, Köln

Late Night Staring At High Res Pixels by Athena Stevens, Finborough Theatre, London

2020

White Tuesday by Eve Leigh, The Fizzy Sherbet Podcast, Recipient of a Sarah Award - Best New Audio Fiction Award, New York

Special Occasions by Amy Ng, The Fizzy Sherbet Podcast

Killing It by Josephine Starte, Vault Festival, London

Scrounger by Athena Stevens, Finborough Theatre, London, Nominated for 6 Offie Awards and 3 Finalists Offies

2019

While You Are Here by Eve Leigh, DanceEast, Ipswich & The Place, London 

2018

Schism by Athena Stevens nominated for an Olivier Award, The Park, London

2017

The White Bike by Tamara von Werthern, The Space, London

A Colder Water Than Here by Matt Jones, Vaults, London, Origins Award For Outstanding New Work

2016

Absence by In-Sook Chappell, Young Vic, London

2014

This Despised Love, RSC Fringe Festival, Stratford-upon-Avon

2013

Old Times by Harold Pinter, Artheater, Köln

2008

Footfalls by Samuel Beckett, Severins-Burg-Theater, Köln


associate directing

2021

Kein Weltuntergang by Chris Bush, Schaubühne Berlin

2019

Anatomie eines Suizids by Alice Birch, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg

Orlando by Virginia Woolf, Schaubühne Berlin

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson, The Shed, New York

Bluets by Maggie Nelson, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg

2018

La Maladie de la Mort by Marguerite Duras, Bouffes du Nord

Schlafende Männer by Martin Crimp, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg,

2017

4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg

2016

Schatten by Elfriede Jelinek, Schaubühne Berlin

2015

Ophelias Zimmer by Alice Birch, Schaubühne Berlin / Royal Court, London

Reisende auf einem Bein by Herta Müller, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg

Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg

2014

2071 by Duncan Macmillan and Chris Rapley, Royal Court, London


assistant directing 

2019

When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other by Martin Crimp, National Theatre, London

2016

Cleansed by Sarah Kane, National Theatre, London

2015

The Beaux' Stratagem by George Farquhar, National Theatre, London

2014

The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon

The Forbidden Zone by Duncan Macmillan, Salzburg Festspiele / Schaubühne Berlin

Wunschloses Unglück by Peter Handke, Burgtheater, Vienna,

2013

The Rest Will Be Familiar To You From Cinema by Martin Crimp, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg

Say It With Flowers by Gertrude Stein, Hampstead Theatre, London

The Yellow Wallpaper after Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Schaubühne Berlin / Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe Paris

2012

Reise durch die Nacht after Friederike Mayröcker, Schauspiel Köln / Festival d’Avignon / Theatertreffen Berlin

2011

Die Hundsprozesse by SIGNA, Schauspiel Köln