ABOUT

Hannah is a theatre director, whose productions include Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's Choir in the Minerva, Rose Heiney’s Original Death Rabbit, starring Kimberley Nixon, at Jermyn Street Theatre, and Carry on Jaywick by Dan Murphy, which toured the UK.

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Hannah is  Associate Director (Literary) at Chichester Festival Theatre. Alongside Artistic Director Justin Audibert she works on programming, oversees the commissioning of new work for the Festival and Minerva stages and contributes to CFT's creative identity.

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In Autumn 2026 Hannah will co-direct, with Justin Audibert, A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Festival Theatre starring Munya Chawawa as Bottom.

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She has assisted some of the country’s leading directors, including Simon Godwin, Polly Findlay, Bijan Sheibani and Erica Whyman, working with the writers Jack Thorne, Caryl Churchill, Alice Birch and Nick Payne in the process.  Hannah was previously the Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio, in the Old Vic 12, a former Resident Director at the Almeida Theatre, National Theatre Staff Director and Baylis Assistant Director at The Old Vic. 

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She is a tutor for Open Door, a non-profit organisation that helps talented young people who do not have the financial support or resources to gain a place at drama school and regularly directs students at the UK's leading drama schools. 

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Photos by Bob Workman and Lidia Crisafulli. 

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