ABOUT STEPHEN
STEPHEN WHITSON
THEATRE & FILM DIRECTOR
Stephen has directed productions in London and around the UK, and is the Associate Director of the West End & UK and Ireland productions of Hamilton.
Recent Theatre Directing credits include: Diary of a CEO Live (London Palladium & UK Tour); West Side Story (BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall & Edinburgh International Festival, Usher Hall); You Forgot The Mince – a new play by Francesca Joy (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/UK Tour); Benighted by J.B. Priestley (World Premiere, London) [Off West End Award Nomination – Best Director]; The Last Five Years (The Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (West End); Little Women (Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham); Stephen Sondheim’s Putting It Together (The Lyric Theatre, Belfast).
Associate/Assistant Director credits include: Hamilton (Original Associate Director – West End & UK and Ireland Tour); Double Feature by John Logan (Associate Director – World Premiere, Hampstead Theatre); Moulin Rouge (Original Associate Director – West End & Germany); 42nd Street (Original Associate Director – Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London – West End); Barnum (Associate Director,- Cameron Mackintosh/Michael Harrison/UK Tour); From Here To Eternity (Associate Director – World Premiere – West End, 2014 Cinema Release); Private Lives (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); La Fanciulla del West (Opera Holland Park); Noye’s Fludde by Benjamin Britten (Aldeburgh Music Festival/BBC); What You Will (The Globe Theatre/London 2012 Festival).
Film Directing credits include: Loved Before (Music Video – Eighty8 Films), Da (Rare Moustache/Crixus/Criaglockhart Road Productions), The Trip (Short/London Sci-Fi Festival), 13 (Short/Rare Moustache) and Shooting Star (Music Video/The Big Bads).
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For all professional enquiries, Stephen is represented by Adam Maskell at Curtis Brown…
