About Me

Vicky is a freelance theatre director based in London, who works predominantly with new writing. 

She has worked extensively with theatres and companies including: Donmar Theatre, Soho Theatre, The Old Vic, Young Vic, Cardboard Citizens, Clean Break, The Pleasance and Theatre 503.

She is currently a Project Associate for The Young Vic, an Associate Artist at Arts Depot, an Alumni Associate for Jerwood Arts and the Lead Artist for In Her Strength, a theatre company that showcasing stories from women with experience of homelessness.

Vicky’s work uses strong and integrated visual and aural aesthetics that are often playful, visceral, and imaginatively ambitious in form; she is often found fusing together multiple disciplines such as music, live art, verbatim, movement and immersive theatre. 

Alongside her professional career, Vicky is extremely passionate about creating theatre (text-based and devised) with young people and community groups. She has worked extensively with youth theatre’s, day centre’s, hostels, prison’s, disabled groups & more.

Vicky is also a NT Connect mentor for 2023 and a script reader for The Bush & The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.

If you would like to collaborate or have a project or play you think Vicky would be great for, please feel free to get in touch.

Training & Qualifications

  • Young Vic Directors Programme & Pool of Artists 2021
  • Core Directing Skills led by Katie Mitchell
  • Monobox Director training with Ned Bennett
  • Kiln Theatre Playwriting Course with Tom Wright 2020
  • Ad Infinitum’s Approach to Theatre Making workshops
  • Developing New Plays and Dramaturgy with JMK & Papatango
  • Disability and directing workshop by JMK
  • Collaboration in the rehearsal room with Natalie Abrahami
  • Starting to Cast workshop with Tristan Fynn- Aiduenu
  • Visiting lecturer at: The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of Essex & Drama Studio London
  • Speaker on panel at The Old Vic Takeover event 2020
  • Forum Theatre & Rainbow of Desires training w/ Adrian Jackson
  • Soho Theatre training in Cabaret and Drag & performance artist at Soho Downstairs
  • Two of my Spoken Word pieces are published in Artful Publication
  • Speaker on panel at the Creative Industries Federation 
  • Seed Commission winner for Outside the Box at Camden People’s Theatre
  • Shortlisted for Charlie Hartill Award at The Pleasance
  • Shortlisted for Barbican Open Lab 2020
SEE FULL CV HERE