Blanche McIntyre

Director / Writer

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Biography

* Winner – Best Director: TMA 2013 UK Theatre Awards

* Winner of the 2011 Critcs’ Circle Most Promising Newcomer Award for ACCOLADE and FOXFINDER (both at the Finborough Theatre)

* FOXFINDER: Listed in Independent’s top 5 picks for 2011

* ACCOLADE: Best Director and Best Production at Off West End Theatre Awards 2011; Listed in the Spectator’s Top Ten Plays for 2011; Time Out’s Best Fringe Show 2011

National Theatre Studio Director’s Course (2010)

Winner – Leverhulme Bursary (2009)

Director in Residence at the National Theatre Studio and the Finborough Theatre (2009)

Training – Drama Studio London, Postgraduate Course in Directing (2004/05)

Education – Double First, Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1999 – 2003)

Credits

Theatre

Production Company Notes
STAGE KISS
2026 		Hampstead Theatre

By Sarah Ruhl
PRIVATE LIVES
2026 		Royal Exchange Theatre

By Noël Coward
THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES
2025 		Hampstead Theatre

By Richard Greenburg
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY
2025 		Shakespeare's Globe
POOR CLARE
2025 		Orange Tree Theatre

By Chiara Atik
LETTERS FROM MAX
2025 		Hampstead Theatre

By Sarah Ruhl
APEX PREDATOR
2025 		Hampstead Theatre

By John Donnelly
THE INVENTION OF LOVE
2024 		Hampstead Theatre

By Tom Stoppard
ANTONY & CLEOPATRA
2024 		Shakepeare's Globe
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
2024 		RSC
ARABIAN NIGHTS
2023 		Bristol Old Vic

By Sonali Bhattacharyya
TWELFTH NIGHT: FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY
2023 		Shakespeare's Globe
SUPER HIGH RESOLUTION
2022 		Soho Theatre

By Nathan Ellis
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
2022 		RSC
HOUSE OF SHADES
2022 		Almeida

By Beth Steel
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
2021 		Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
HYMN
2021 		Almeida / Sky Arts

By Lolita Chakrabarti
A DOLL'S HOUSE
2021 		RWCMD

By Henrik Ibsen
Adapted by Bryony Lavery
PLAYFIGHT
2021 		Finborough Theatre

By Julia Grogan
Streamed rehearsed reading
GOING FORWARD
2020 		Headlong / BBC Arts

By John Donnelly
Part of the UNPRECEDENTED series
BOTTICELLI IN THE FIRE
2019 		Hampstead

By Jordan Tannahill
BARTHOLOMEW FAIR
2019 		Shakespeare's Globe - Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

By Ben Jonson
TARTUFFE
2019 		National Theatre

By Molière
Adapted by John Donnelly
WOMEN IN POWER
2018 		Nuffield

Based on Aristophanes’ ASSEMBLY WOMEN
THE WINTER'S TALE
2018 		Shakespeare's Globe

By William Shakespeare
THE WRITER
2018 		Almeida

By Ella Hickson
TITUS ANDRONICUS
2017 		RSC

By William Shakespeare
THE NORMAN CONQUESTS
2017 		Chichester Festival Theatre

By Alan Ayckbourn
THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN
2016 		RSC: The Swan

By William Shakespeare
NOISES OFF
2016 		Nottingham Playhouse

By Michael Frayn
WELCOME HOME CAPTAIN FOX!
2016 		Donmar Warehouse

A new version of Jean Anouilh’s ‘Le Voyageur Sans Baggage’ by Anthony Weigh
THE ORESTEIA
2015 		HOME (Manchester)

By Aeschylus
Translated by Ted Hughes
AS YOU LIKE IT
2015 		Shakespeare's Globe

By William Shakespeare
ARCADIA
2015 		Ambassador Theatre Group / ETT

By Tom Stoppard
ACCOLADE
2014 		St James Theatre

By Emlyn Williams
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
2014 		Shakespeare's Globe

By William Shakespeare
TONIGHT AT 8.30
2014 		Nuffield / English Touring Theatre

Nine one-act plays by Noël Coward
THE NUTCRACKER
2013 		Nuffield

By Hattie Naylor
Songs & lyrics by Paul Dodgson
CIPHERS
2013 		Out Of Joint / Bush Theatre / Northcott Theatre (Exeter)

Touring production
By Dawn King
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
2013 		Manchester Royal Exchange

By Harold Pinter
THE SEAGULL
2013 		Headlong Theatre / Nuffield / Derby Theatre / UK Tour

By Anton Chekhov in a new version by John Donnelly
* Winner – Best Director: TMA 2013 UK Theatre Awards
THE GRACE OF MARY TRAVERSE
2013 		Out Of Joint

Rehearsed reading
LIAR, LIAR
2013 		Unicorn Theatre

By E V Crowe
THE ONLY TRUE HISTORY OF LIZZIE FINN
2012 		Jagged Fence / Southwark Playhouse

By Sebastian Barry
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
2012 		Salisbury Playhouse

By George Axelrod
REPENTANCE; BEHIND THE LINES
2012 		ANGLE Theatre / Bush Theatre

By Media Ahmed and Neil Daley respetively
FOXFINDER
2011 		Finborough Theatre

By Dawn King
Part of the Papatango Playwriting Festival
* Listed in Independent’s top 5 picks for 2011
WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE MY MOTHER?
2011 		Trafalgar Studios - Studio 2

By Christopher Hampton
IN WORLD
2011 		Finborough Theatre

Rehearsed reading
ROBIN HOOD
2011 		Latitude Festival / National Student Drama Festival

By Chris Thorpe
PINCHING FOR MY SOUL
2011 		Focus Theatre, Dublin

By Elizabeth Moynihan
OPEN HEART SURGERY
2011 		Southwark Playhouse

As part of Theatre Uncut project
ACCOLADE
2011 		Finborough Theatre

By Emlyn Williams
* Best Director and Best Production at Off West End Theatre Awards 2011
* Listed in the Spectator’s Top Ten Plays for 2011
* Time Out’s Best Fringe Show 2011
THE BIG FELLAH (2010/11) Out Of Joint / Lyric Hammersmith / Tour / 2011 Revival Tour

as Associate Director; dir. Max Stafford-Clark
SCARRED
2010 		Out Of Joint

Rehearsed reading of play by Kathryn O’Reilly
ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS
2010 		Finborough Theatre

Rehearsed reading
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
2010 		Changeling Theatre Company tour

as Associate Director;
dir. Robert Forknall
THE VOICE OF SCOTLAND
2010 		Finborough Theatre

Rehearsed reading
A MODEL FOR MANKIND
2010 		Cock Tavern Theatre

Written by James Sheldon
MOLIÈRE, OR THE LEAGUE OF HYPOCRITES
2009 		Finborough Theatre
BIRDS
2009 		Southwark Playhouse - Secrets season
DIRT
2009 		National Theatre Studio

Rehearsed reading
GREEN
2009 		Finborough Theatre

Rehearsed reading
THE GRAND IRRATIONALITY
2009 		National Theatre Studio

Rehearsed reading
By Jemma Kennedy
THE FLIES
2009 		Echange Theatre Company / Camden People's Theatre

as Assistant Director; dir. David Furlong
MEDEA
2009 		Humble Theatre Company / Prince Edward Bayswater

as Assistant Director; dir. Jodi de Souza
THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE
2008 		Union Theatre
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
2008 		Changeling Theatre Company / Kent tour

as Associate Director; dir. Rob Forknall
CAN'T PAY? WON'T PAY!
2008 		Arcola Theatre

as Assistant Director; dir. Kate Moyse; Youth Theatre
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
2007 		Birmingham / Midlands tour
ALADDIN
2007 		Oxford Playhouse

as Assistant Director; dir. Peter Duncan
MEETINGS
2007 		Blue Hug Theatre Company / Arcola Theatre

as Assistant Director; dir. Dan Barnard
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
2007 		Changeling Theatre Company / Kent tour

as Assistant Director; dir. Rob Forknall
CHARLIE AND HENRY
2007 		Good Stuff Productions / New End Theatre

as Assistant Director; dir. Jason Lawson
DOCTOR FAUSTUS / THE DEVIL IS AN ASS
2006 		White Bear Theatre
MACBETH
2006 		Changeling Theatre Company / Kent / London tour

as Assistant Director; dir. Rob Forknall
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
2006 		Changeling Theatre Company / Kent / London tour

as Assistant Director; dir. Rob Forknall
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE AS TOLD TO CARL JUNG BY AN INMATE OF BROADMOOR ASYLUM
2005 		White Bear Theatre
THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY
2005 		Battersea Arts Centre
LOST HEARTS
2005 		Edinburgh Fringe

also as Writer
FAMILY FORTUNES
2005 		Soho Theatre Studio

Rehearsed reading
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA
2004 		Greenwich Playhouse

also as Writer (adaptation)

Film

Production Company Notes
THE HIPPOPOTAMUS
2017 		Electric Shadow Company

As co-writer
Feature film script based on the novel by Stephen Fry

Opera

Production Company Notes
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
2018 		English Touring Opera

By Mozart
TOSCA
2017 		English Touring Opera

By Giacomo Puccini
Conductor: Michael Rosewell
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA
2007 		Changeling Theatre Company / Kent tour

as Assistant Director; dir. Rob Forknall

Other

Production Company Notes
NANCY THE WATERMAN
2007 		Maltings Arts Theatre, St Albans

as Writer; Libretto for Stephen Dodgson’s premiering production
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