Ed Burnside

Associate Director

Upcoming Theatre: Billy (Good Chance Theatre) and Billy Elliot The Musical - Korean revival (Working Title Films, Seoul).

Theatre As Director: Black (Theatre Royal Stratford East/ Adelaide Festival/ Contact Manchester/ SOHO Theatre/ Edinburgh Festival – Total Theatre Award Nomination for Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with Form); The Little Prince (ICT, Brighton); Persuasion; Far From The Madding Crowd; Northanger Abbey (DCTC National Tours); Le Gateau Chocolat (Menier Chocolate Factory/ Sydney Opera House); Diamond (Brighton Dome); Threepenny Opera (Old Market) and The Circle Game (Brit School/ Brighton Festival - also as writer).

Theatre As Associate, Rehearsal and Resident Director: Hamnet (RSC/Garrick Theatre); The Jungle (Good Chance/ St Ann’s Warehouse NYC/ Washington DC); Matilda The Musical (RSC/Cambridge Theatre); Billy Elliot The Musical (as Associate Director in Japan and Korea, as Resident Director for UK and Ireland tour and Hamburg); Starting Line (Paralympics 2012) and Twisted Dreams (Street Circus, Glastonbury Festival).

Television and film includes: The Crown and Matilda at Home.

Workshops include: Closer Than Ever; Starting Here Starting Now (with orchestrator Julian Kelly, Chichester - with special permission from Richard Maltby and David Shire), Marry Me A Little (Chichester) and Smouldering (New Writing South).