Benedict Andrews

Benedict Andrews is a multi-award winning playwright, director, filmmaker and poet.

His directing work includes: Ellen B / Ex (Þjóðleikhúsið, Reykjavik), Cosi fan Tutte (Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Young Vic), Medea (Komische Oper Berlin), A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic and St Ann’s Warehouse), The Maids (Sydney Theatre Company and Lincoln Centre), Fiery Angel (Komische Oper, Berlin), Macbeth (Þjóðleikhúsið, Reykjavik), Three Sisters (Young Vic), La Boheme (ENO and Dutch National Opera), Every Breath (Belvoir Street Theatre), Groß und Klein (Sydney Theatre Company and Barbican), The Seagull (Belvoir Street Theate), King Lear (Þjóðleikhúsið, Reykjavik), Measure for Measure (Belvoir Street Theatre), Saved (Schaubühne, Berlin), The City (Sydney Theatre Company), The War of the Roses (Sydney Theatre Company), Moving Target (Sydney Opera House), Drunk Enough to Say I Love You (Schaubühne, Berlin), The Ugly One (Schaubühne, Berlin), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Belvoir Street Theatre), Blackbird (Schaubühne, Berlin), Cleansed (Schaubühne, Berlin), Julius Caesar (Sydney Theatre Company), Fireface (Sydney Theatre Company), La Dispute (Sydney Theatre Company.)

Plays include Like a Sun, Every Breath, The Stars, Geronimo and Gloria. he has written new versions of The Seagull and Three Sisters, and a version of Jean Genet’s The Maids, with Andrew Upton.

Film work includes Una and Seberg. 

In 2012 Benedict won the London Critics Circle Best Director Award for his production of Three Sisters at the Young Vic. His directing work over the years has won him several Gríman Awards, Helpmann Awards, Sydney Theatre Awards and Melbourne Green Room Awards, amongst others.