Katie Mitchell
Katie Mitchell is an innovative British theatre director whose unique style has divided both critics and audiences.
Introduction
Katie Mitchell was born in Reading, England. Her mother worked as a cook and her father was a dentist. She was educated at Oakham School in Rutland and began directing school productions as a student. Mitchell then gained a place at Magdalen College, Oxford to study English. She has one daughter, born in 2005.
Key Dates & Events
- 1989 - Mitchell receives the Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to study directing in Russia, Poland, Georgia, and Lithuania.
- 1996 - Mitchell becomes an associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).
- 2000 - Mitchell becomes associate director at the Royal Court Theatre.
- 2003 - Mitchell is invited to become associate director at the National Theatre.
- 2008 - Mitchell publishes two books detailing her innovative live cinema process …some trace of her and Waves.
- 2009 - Mitchell publishes The Director’s Craft: A Handbook for the Theatre, a practical manual for early career directors.
- 2009 - Mitchell is awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours.
- 2017 - Mitchell receives the President's Medal of the British Academy.
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Education & Influences
Katie Mitchell was educated at Oakham School in Rutland and began directing school productions as a student. Aged 17, she founded her own company and produced Tom Stoppard’s absurdist play After Magritte at the Edinburgh Fringe. Mitchell then gained a place at Magdalen College, Oxford to study English. Following her graduation, she wrote to,
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