Katie Mitchell
Katie Mitchell ( born September 23, 1964 in Reading, England ) is a British theater, film and opera director.
Mitchell grew up in Hermitage on in the county of Berkshire and studied at Oxford in English Literature. After several assistants, among others, at the Royal Shakespeare Company, she founded the late 1980s, her own theater troupe called Classics on a Shoestring. From 1996 to 1998 she worked as a house director at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC ), then for four years at the Royal Court Theatre. In 1997 she took over responsibility for the programs The Other Place, a studio theater of the RSC. Since 1994, Mitchell staged regularly at the Royal National Theatre in London, since 1996 she has worked as an opera director.
Her international breakthrough came in 2009, won the artist, as she sat in the scene at the Salzburg Festival, Luigi Nono and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden James MacMillan and was invited to the Berlin Theatre Meeting. Mitchell has worked for many years in close collaboration with the writer Martin Crimp and the set and costume designer Vicki Mortimer.
Important productions
- 2009: request concert by Franz Xaver Kroetz, drama Cologne and Berlin Theatre Meeting
- 2009: Al gran sole carico d' amore by Luigi Nono, Salzburg Festival, then at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin
- 2012: Written on Skin, premiere of the opera by Martin Crimp and George Benjamin, Aix -en- Provence, then in Amsterdam, Vienna, Toulouse, London and Florence
- 2012: Journey through the night of Mayröcker, drama Cologne and Berlin Theatre Meeting 2013
- 2013: The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Schaubühne, Berlin
- 2013: Breathing by Duncan Macmillan, Schaubühne, Berlin
- 2014: A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke, Burgtheater Wien in the casino at the Schwarzenberg Platz