Natalie Abrahami
Director
Film, TV & Theatre
Natalie read English Literature at Cambridge University and started work in theatre at the Royal Court as a Graduate Trainee before training with the National Theatre and Young Vic. She was awarded the James Menzies-Kitchin Award for Emerging Directors in 2005.
Between 2007 and 2012 Natalie was Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill with Carrie Cracknell. During their tenure they were awarded the Paul Hamlyn Breakthrough Fund for Creative Entrepreneurs.
Natalie then went on to join the Young Vic as Genesis Fellow and Associate Director 2013-16. She has also been Associate Artist at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton and at Hull Truck.
In Development
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2020 | Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House | Benjamin Britten - Composer |
Theatre
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2019 | Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Globe Theatre | Created by Natalie Abrahami and Ella Hickson |
2019 | National | Created by Ella Hickson, Ben and Max Ringham |
2018 | Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre | by Charlotte Jones |
2018 | Almeida | by Sophie Treadwell |
2017 | Young Vic | by Arthur Kopit |
2015 - 2017 | Theatre Royal Haymarket & Swan Theatre, RSC | by Helen Edmundson |
2015 | Young Vic | by Eugene O'Neill |
2015 | Young Vic | "Natalie Abrahami's production is perfectly paced...Stevenson is magnificent" ***** Evening Standard |
2014 | Young Vic | "Juliet Stevenson gives an extraordinary expressive performance in Natalie Abrahami's brutal and tender production." **** Time Out |
AFTER MISS JULIE 2012 | Young Vic | by Patrick Marber |
YERMA 2011 | Gate Theatre & Hull Truck | By Lorca, in a new version by Anthony Weigh |
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM 2011 | Headlong | National Tour |
THE KREUTZER SONATA 2009 | Gate Theatre/LaMama, New York | by Leo Tolstoy, in an adaptation by Nancy Harris. Revived in 2012 at Gate and International Tour. |
VANYA 2009 | Gate Theatre | by Sam Holcroft, inspired by Anton Chekhov's UNCLE VANYA |
GUARDIANS 2009 | HighTide Festival | by Lucy Caldwell |
THE INTERNATIONALIST 2008 | Gate Theatre | by Anne Washburn |
THE ELEVENTH CAPITAL 2007 | Royal Court Theatre | by Alexandra Wood. Young Writers Festival Winner 2006 and winner of the George Devine Award 2007 |
PLAY and NOT I by Samuel Beckett 2005 | Battersea Arts Centre | Winner James Menzies-Kitchin Award for Directors 2005 |
Film
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2016 | Young Vic Short Films | written by Nigel Williams. |
2014 | Young Vic Short Films | written by Nancy Harris |
2013 | Young Vic Short Films | written by Olivia Poulet |
Opera
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2013 | ROH2 | Composed by Julian Phillips with libretto by Edward Kemp, based on work by Ted Hughes. |