| Jeremy Herrin | |
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| Occupation | Theatre director |
Jeremy Herrin is an English theatre director and currently the Deputy Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre in London. He trained as a theatre director at both the Royal Court and the National Theatre [1]
Notable work is he directed the smash hit That Face by Polly Stenham in 2007 which had a West End transfer from the upstairs theatre of Royal Court. Nominated for the Evening Standard Best Director award for Tusk Tusk. Since then he directed a string of new plays at the Royal Court including the summer hit Spur of the Moment by Anya Reiss and Richard Bean's The Heretic. He made his Shakespearian debut at the Globe Theatre in 2011 directing Eve Best in Much Ado About Nothing. He is due to return to the Court for Joe Penhall's latest play.
Having trained at the RSAMD in Glasgow, he was an assistant director under Stephen Daldry at the Royal Court Theatre 1993-95. He then was a staff director at the National Theatre from 1995 to 1999. In 2000 he became Associate Director at Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne. He then became the Deputy Artistic Director at Royal Court to Dominic Cooke in 2009.