Rufus Norris - Director
Theatre
Market Boy: David Elridge - World Premiere at the National - '06
Tin Tin: Co-written with David Greig - Barbican - Dec '05
Blood Wedding: Adapted by Tanya Ronder, Starring Gael Garcia Bernal - Almedia - '05
Festen: Based on the film by Thomas Vinterberg - Almeida - '04
- Transfer to West End - '04; Adapted by David Eldridge - Transfer to Broadway - '05
Sleeping Beauty: Rufus Norris/Der - Young Vic - '03
Transfer to Barbican - Dec '04
Peribanez: Lope De Vega - Young Vic - '03
Adapted by Tanya Ronder
Dirty Butterfly: Debbie Tucker Green - Soho Theatre - '03
Sleeping Beauty: Rufus Norris - Young Vic - '02
Small Change: Peter Gill - Sheffield Crucible - '02
Workers Writes: Various - Royal Court Upstairs - '01
Afore Night Come: David Rudkin - Young Vic - '01
Mish Alla Ruman: David Greig - Al Kasaba, Ramallah - '01
Two Women: Debbie Green - Soho Theatre lunchtime - '00
Under The Blue Sky: David Eldridge - Royal Court Upstairs - '00
My Dad's Cornershop: Ray Grewal - Birmingham Rep - '00
Strike Gently: R.Norris/K.Lindsay - Young Vic Studio (Wink) - '99
Small Craft Warnings: Tennessee Williams - Pleasance, London - '99
About The Boy: Ed Hime - Royal Court Upstairs - '98
Clubbed Out: Ezra Elia - Royal Court Upstairs (Class Festival) - '98
The Measles: Ivan Vidic - The Gate - '98
Where The Devils Dwell: Rhiannon Tise - Royal Court Upstairs (YPT) - '97
The People Downstairs: Deirdre Strath - Young Vic Studio (Wink) - '97
The Art Of Random Whistling - Mark Jenkinson - Young Vic Studio (Wink) - '96
Waking Beauty: Deirdre Strath - Arts Threshold - '95
Rosa Carnivora: Deirdre Strath - Theatr Clwyd /Touring (Wink) - '94
The Lizzie Play: Deirdre Strath - Arts Threshold/Touring(Wink) - '92-4
Things Curious: Louise Warren - BAC/Touring - '93
The Tempest: Shakespeare - Arts Threshold - '92
Opera/Music Theatre
Tall Stories: Gough/Chew - Vienna / BAC / Touring / USA - '02
Sea Tongue: Gough/Chew - Huddersfield Contemp. Music Fest - '01
While I Was Waiting: Orlando Gough - Limelight / BAC (ENO Studio/Wink) - '01
Shawna and Ron's Half Moon: Eva Salzman - ENO (Baylis) - '00
Pierrot - Orlando Gough: ENO (Baylis) - '99
Awards
Festen: Winner - Best Director, Critics' Circle Awards 2005
Nomination: Best Director, Olivier Awards 2005
Best Director, Evening Standard Awards 2004
Arts Foundation Fellowship, 2002
Afore Night Come: Outstanding Newcomer, Evening Standard Awards 2001
Tall Stories: Nominated for Manchester Evening News Award 2002
Small Change: Peter Brook Empty Space Award for Crucible Studio Season 2002
Positions held
Young Vic Theatre, Associate Director (current)
Wink, Artistic Director 1992 - current
London-based theatre company, LA and ACE funded. Co-Founder and director of all productions.
Arts Threshold, Artistic Director 1993-95 Producing Fringe theatre (London)
Royal Court Theatre, Assistant Director 1996-97 (Arts Council Bursary)
Other experience
Training: RADA 1986-89 (Acting), several years working as an actor in Britain and Europe
Founder of The Bloody Nightmare Co.(music). Over twenty soundtracks written for theatre, dance, and tv.
