Robert Icke

Playwright

Robert Icke is an award-winning writer and theatre director. He is currently Associate Director at the Almeida. From 2010-13 he was Associate Director at Headlong, where he worked on all of the company’s productions and directed three of his own. He was the Artistic Director of the Arden Theatre Company from 2003-7 and of the Swan Theatre Company from 2005-8. Oedipus was selected for the Holland Theater Festival 2018. Oresteia won Best Director at the 2016 Olivier Awards, and Best Director at both the Critics Circle and Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2015. 1984 won Best Director at the UK Theatre Awards 2014, Best Director at the Liverpool Arts Awards 2013, and was nominated for Best New Play at the 2014 Olivier Awards. roberticke.com