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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 & comedy. I've 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) |
2026
Operation Mincemeat (Tour Director, U.K. Tour) Hamlet (Associate Director, Brooklyn Academy of Music) 2025 Hamlet (Associate Director, National Theatre) One Man Musical by Flo & Joan (Director, Underbelly & Melbourne Comedy Festival - nominated for Most Outstanding Show) Operation Mincemeat (Associate Director on Broadway & 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. |