Oscar Toeman

Director

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Biography

Oscar Toeman is a director for stage and screen.
 
He is currently Literary Associate at the Old Vic. He is an alumni of Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors Lab in New York, a recipient of a Michael Grandage Company Futures Bursary, and an Associate Artist at National Youth Theatre.  He has been runner up for the JMK Award, and twice a finalist for the Peter Hall RTST Award. He trained on the NT Studio’s Directors Course, and was Baylis Director at the Old Vic theatre 2023-2025.
 
In 2023 Oscar was selected for the Hollyoaks ‘Stage to Small Screen Programme’ (SDUK/ DUK/ ScreenSkills/ Lime Pictures) to train up theatre directors for TV, and has since worked as an Acting Coach on set.

He is a dual national, and holds an EU passport.

Credits

Theatre

Production Company Notes
AS DIRECTOR
DOUBLE INDEMNITY
2026 		Trafalgar, UK Tour

Adapted for the stage by Tom Holloway. From the novel by James M. Cain. Produced by Trafalgar Theatre Productions.

ONE HUNDRED FEET TALL
2025 		Old Vic Tour

Music and Lyrics by Benjamin Scheuer
Book by Melis Aker

FAREWELL MR HAFFMAN
2025 		Park200

By Jean Philippe Daguerre
Trans. Jeremy Sams
THE MISFORTUNE OF THE ENGLISH
2022 		Orange Tree

By Pamela Carter
THE SUGAR SYNDROME
2020 		Orange Tree

By Lucy Prebble
*Nominated 4 Off West End Awards
ACTUALLY
2019 		Trafalgar Studios

By Anna Ziegler

THE BIG LIE
2018 		Edinburgh Fringe Festival

By Shaniaz Hama Ali
*Nominated for the Amnesty Freedom of Expression Award
NO SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL; HOLIDAY DESTINATION and BLUE IS A BOY'S COLOUR (Readings)
2018 		National Theatre

Readings for NT New Views
STILL FOOLS
2018 		Arcola/ Minaturists

By Adam Hughes
ITALIAN NIGHT (workshop)
2017 		Orange Tree

By Odon von Horvath
WINTER'S TALES
2017 		The Coronet

Christmas readings by Emili Sandé, Penelope Wilton, Shappi Khorsandi and Toby Stephens

AFTER OCTOBER
2016 		Finborough Theatre

By Rodney Ackland
*Nominated 3 Off West End Awards
WHAT THEY TOOK WITH THEM: A LIST (Reading)
2016 		National Theatre

By Jenifer Toksvig
WHY I WANT TO WORK AT TESCO'S
2013 		Bush Theatre Attic Space

By Joseph Wilde
LABURNUM GROVE
2013 		Finborough Theatre

By J. B. Priestley
A.G.M
2012 		nabokov/ Soho

By Freddy Syborn
THE BALLAD OF THE COPPER REVOLUTION
2012 		Vaults/ nabokov

By Jay Luxembourg
DRAMA SCHOOL PRODUCTIONS
THE ANGRY BRIGADE
2023 		LAMDA

By James Graham
THE GRAIN STORE
2023 		Mountview Academy

By Natalie Vorozhbit
PARTY TIME/CELEBRATION
2023 		Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

By Harold Pinter
OUR TOWN
2022 		Arts Ed

By Thornton Wilder
THE BIG KNIFE
2021 		Arts Ed

By Clifford Odets
AS YOU LIKE IT
2021 		Arts Ed

By Shakespeare
DEALER'S CHOICE
2019 		Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

By Patrick Marber
MEPHISTO
2019 		East 15

Adapted from the novel by Klaus Mann by Ariane Mnouchkine, trans. Timberlake Wertenbaker.
ENRON
2018 		Arts Ed

By Lucy Prebble
THE FAMILY THAT COULD TALK ABOUT ANYTHING
2018 		East 15

By Christian Lollike
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
2016 		Oxford School of Drama /North Wall, Oxford

By William Shakespeare
RICHARD III
2016 		Stanwix Theatre

By William Shakespeare
THE GRANDFATHERS
2015 		Mountview Academy

By Rory Mullarkey
AS DRAMATURG
FEELING AFRAID AS IF SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN
2022 		Summerhall

By Marcelo Dos Santos
Fringe First Winner
AS ASSOCIATE/ ASSISTANT
THE CONSTITUENT
2024 		Old Vic

As Associate
By Joe Penhall
Dir. Matthew Warchus

OSLO
2017 		Lyttelton, National Theatre/ Harold Pinter Theatre

As Associate
By J.T. Rogers, Dir. Bartlett Sher
WASTE
2016 		Lyttelton, National Theatre

By Harley Granville Barker
Dir. Roger Michell

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
2015 		Royal Shakespeare Theatre, RSC

By William Shakespeare
Dir. Polly Findlay
ION / THE BACCHAE / HIPPOLYTUS
2015 		Chichester FT; one week workshop

versions by Mike Poulton
Dir. Lucy Bailey
HITLER'S CUFFLINKS
2014 – 2015 		Northampton; one week workshops

By Mike Poulton
Dir. James Dacre
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
2014 		Theatre Royal, Bath

By Edward Albee
Dir. Adrian Noble
TWELFTH NIGHT
2013 		Shakespeare's Globe/ Apollo Theatre

By William Shakespeare
Dir. Tim Carroll
UNCLE VANYA
2012 		Print Room

version by Mike Poulton
Dir. Lucy Bailey
MIRROR TEETH
2011 		Finborough Theatre

By Nick Gill
Dir. Kate Wasserberg
ACCOLADE
2011 		Finborough Theatre

By Emlyn Williams
Dir. Blanche McIntyre
SKANE
2011 		Hampstead Theatre

By Pamela Carter
Dir. Tim Carroll

THE RIVALS
2010 		Southwark Playhouse

By Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Dir. Jessica Swale
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