Michael Longhurst

Michael Longhurst Overview

For the Royal Court: Constellations, Remembrance Day

Other theatre include If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet (Roundabout, New York – starring Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal in his American stage debut), Stovepipe (promenade co-production for HighTide, National Theatre & Bush Theatre – a Sunday Times ‘Theatre Event of the Decade’), Dirty Butterfly (Young Vic), On the Beach as part of The Contingency Plan (Bush Theatre), On the Record and Gaudeamus (Arcola), Midnight Your Time and Guardians (Edinburgh Festival), Afghan Monologues: Unending Transitions (Southbank Centre), Sixty-Six Books (New Bush Theatre & Westminster Abbey), It’s About Time (Nabokov at Latitude Festival Theatre Arena), 1 In 5 (Daring Pairings, Hampstead Theatre), Ready (New Voices: 24 Hour Plays, Old Vic).

Michael trained in directing at Mountview and as an assistant director at the Young Vic, Old Vic, Royal Court and RSC.

Awards: 2007 Jerwood Directors Award (Dirty Butterfly), 2005 Fringe First (Guardians).

Forthcoming directing includes Cannibals (Royal Exchange, Manchester) and The History Boys (Sheffield Crucible).