Robert Icke

Robert Icke
Born	Stockton-on-Tees
Occupation	Writer, director
Nationality	English
Notable works	Oresteia Uncle Vanya 1984
Notable awards	Olivier Award, Evening Standard Award, Critics' Circle, UK Theatre Awards
Website
www.roberticke.com

Robert Icke is an English writer and theatre director. Born in Stockton-on-Tees to a non-theatrical family, he was taken to see a production of Richard III starring Kenneth Branagh as a teenager, which inspired him to take up writing and directing. ^[1]

He began his career as Artistic Director of the Arden Theatre Company (2003-2007), followed by a stint at the Swan Theatre Company (2005-2008). Between 2010 and 2013, he was Associate Director at Rupert Goold's company Headlong. He is now Associate Director at the Almeida Theatre.^[2]

Awards

• Oresteia won 'Best Director' at the Olivier Awards 2016, the Critics Circle Theatre Awards and the 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.

Selected credits

• Decade, devised with Rupert Goold, Headlong, St Katharine Docks, 2011
• Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, Headlong, UK Tour, 2012
• Boys by Ella Hickson, Headlong, Soho Theatre, 2012
• The Alchemist by Ben Jonson, Liverpool Playhouse, 2012
• 1984 by George Orwell, devised with Duncan Macmillan, Headlong, UK Tour and London, 2013-2014
• Mr Burns by Anne Washburn, Almeida Theatre, 2014
• The Fever by Wallace Shawn, Almeida Theatre (site-specific), 2015
• Oresteia by Aeschylus, Almeida Theatre, 2015
• Uncle Vanya by Chekhov, Almeida Theatre, 2016
• The Red Barn by Simenon (adapted by David Hare), National Theatre, 2016
• Hamlet by Shakespeare starring Andrew Scott, Almeida Theatre, 2017

References

1. Interview
2. Interview