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 |
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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 |