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About me
Georgie is a freelance theatre director specialising in new work. She's worked on large scale productions on the West End and venues across the UK. Previously, Georgie was joint Artistic Director of new writing company Flux Theatre and is an Associate Director at The Watermill. She enjoys collaborating with writers from early stages in the development of new work and is especially interested in working with live music, sound and other digital disciplines. Georgie recently directing 'Instructions for A Teenage Armageddon' in the West End. Georgie is currently Associate Director on West End hit 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Dawn French is a Huge Tw*t'. She's led youth and outreach programmes at The Watermill, Chichester Festival Theatre and Corn Exchange, and worked as a guest director at drama schools including Mountview, Royal Academy of Music and Oxford School of Drama. The Press
"This retelling of Dickens' story succeeds magnificently." ★★★★ WhatsOnStage (A Christmas Carol) "Georgie Staight’s lively, socially distanced direction captures the spirit and much of the darkness of Dickens’ short story." ★★★★ The Stage (A Christmas Carol) "Georgie Staight directs with great clarity." ★★★★ The Guardian (Into The Numbers) “Georgie Staight’s absorbing production.” The Independent (Into The Numbers) "Flawlessly orchestrated by Georgie Staight." ★★★★★ Always Time for Theatre (Section 2) “It’s difficult to know where to start with what is right with Chutney." ★★★★★ LondonTheatre1 (CHUTNEY) “A visual masterpiece... the use of the stage was flawless” ★★★★ Pocket Sized Theatre (CHUTNEY) |
2024
Operation Mincemeat (Associate Director, West End) One Man Musical by Flo & Joan (Director, Edinburgh Fringe) Instructions for A Teenage Armageddon (Director, West End) Credits As Director: Instructions for A Teenage Armageddon, (Garrick Theatre, original production at Southwark Playhouse nominated for 4 OffWestEnd Awards), Flo & Joan present: One Man Musical (Edinburgh Fringe, Pleasance), Wizard of Oz, Camp Albion & A Christmas Carol (Watermill Theatre), Vinegar Tom (Mountview), Queen Mab (Actors Church, nominated for an OffCom Award), Things I Know To Be True & Our Town (Royal Academy of Music), Wind in the Willows (Mountview), Eigengrau (Waterloo East Theatre), D-Day 75 (Watermill Theatre, 101 Outdoor Arts & Greenham Trust), CHUTNEY (Bunker Theatre, nominated for 4 Off-West End Awards), Into The Numbers (Finborough Theatre), Section 2 (Bunker Theatre), Dubailand (Finborough Theatre, nominated for an Off-West End award), Dreamless Sleep (Arts Theatre), Flood (Tristan Bates Theatre). Associate Director: Operation Mincemeat (Fortune Theatre, West End), Dawn French Is A Huge T**t (U.K. tour). Assistant Director: Sweet Charity (Watermill Theatre), Our Town (Watermill Theatre), Legally Blonde: The Musical (Bernie Grant Arts Centre). Georgie is Associate Director at The Watermill and Theatre Directing Associate at Mountview. Represented by Nick Frankfort at Michael Grandage Company. |