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About me
I'm a director specialising in original work and adaptations. I am currently Associate Director on West End hit Operation Mincemeat and recently directed One Man Musical by Flo & Joan. Previously, I was joint Artistic Director of new writing company Flux Theatre and am an Associate Artist at The Watermill. I enjoy collaborating with writers from early stages in the development of new work and am especially interested in working on new musicals. I've has 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
"Brilliantly written, superbly performed." ★★★★★ The Stage (One Man Musical) "A winning connection... audiences will love it." ★★★★ The Guardian (One Man Musical) "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) "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) |
2025
One Man Musical (Director, Melbourne Comedy Festival, nominated for Most Outstanding Show) Operation Mincemeat (Associate Director, Broadway) 2024 Operation Mincemeat (Associate Director, West End) One Man Musical by Flo & Joan (Director, Edinburgh & Soho) Instructions for A Teenage Armageddon (Director, West End) Credits Director: One Man Musical (Edinburgh, Soho Theatre & Melbourne Comedy Festival), Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon (Garrick Theatre, original production at Southwark Playhouse nominated for 4 OffWestEnd Awards), The Wizard of Oz, Camp Albion & A Christmas Carol (The Watermill), Queen Mab (Actors Church), Eigengrau (Waterloo East Theatre), D-Day 75 (Watermill Theatre & Greenham Trust), CHUTNEY (Bunker Theatre, nominated for 4 Off-West End Awards), Into The Numbers & Dubailand (Finborough Theatre), Dreamless Sleep (Arts Theatre). Associate director: Hamlet (National Theatre, dir. Rob Hastie), Operation Mincemeat (West End & Broadway, dir. Rob Hastie), Dawn French is a Huge Tw*t (West End & U.K. Tour, dir. Michael Grandage). Assistant Director: Sweet Charity (Watermill Theatre), Our Town (Watermill Theatre), Legally Blonde: The Musical (Bernie Grant Arts Centre). Represented by Nick Frankfort at Michael Grandage Company. |