Katie Mitchell

Katie Mitchell was born in Reading in 1964. From 1996 to 1998, she was director-in-residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon; from 2000 to 2004, she was director-in-residence at the Royal Court Theatre in London. She has created productions at the Royal National Theatre since 1994 and became Associate Director there in 2003. She has staged productions at theatres including Schauspiel Köln, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, Vienna’s Burgtheater, the Dutch Opera Amsterdam, Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden and since 2013 on the regular at Deutsches SchauSpielHaus Hamburg. She received the Evening Standard Theatre Award for “The Phoenician Women” (Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon) in 1996. In 2009, Katie Mitchell was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to drama. In 2013, she received the Viennese Theatre Prize NESTROY for her production of “Reise durch die Nacht” based on Friederike Mayröcker (Schauspiel Köln, 2012). Katie Mitchell has already been invited to the Theatertreffen with four productions: 2009 with “Wunschkonzert” by Franz Xaver Kroetz (Schauspiel Köln), 2013 with “Reise durch die Nacht” by Friederike Mayröcker (Schauspiel Köln), 2020 with “Anatomie eines Suizids” by Alice Birch (Deutsches SchauSpielHaus Hamburg) and most recently with “Bernarda Albas Haus” by Alice Birch based on Federico García Lorca (Deutsches SchauSpielHaus Hamburg).