Joe Hill-Gibbins

Joe Hill-Gibbins (born 1977 as Joseph Hill-Gibbins) is a British theatre director. He is an Artistic Associate of the Young Vic Theatre in London.

Background

Hill-Gibbins was born and raised in Surrey by his parents, a car salesman and a primary school secretary. He read Drama at Manchester University.

Career

Hill-Gibbins directed his first professional production, Wallace Shawn’s A Thought In Three Parts, as winner of the 2002 James Menzies-Kitchen Trust Award for young directors.

He trained at the Royal Court Theatre, both as an assistant director to Dominic Cooke, James Macdonald and Ian Rickson, and as a senior script reader in the literary office. In 2004 he became Trainee Associate Director at the Royal Court, helping curate the Young Writer’s Festival for which he directed A Girl In A Car With A Man by Rob Evans.

In 2006 Hill-Gibbins joined the staff of the Young Vic theatre. After directing Bertolt Brecht’s one-act comedy A Respectable Wedding in a new translation by Rory Bremner,^[1] he became an Associate Director. In 2010 he was appointed Deputy Artistic Director and directed acclaimed productions of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie^[2] and The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh,^[3] which returned to the theatre in 2011.^[4]

In 2011 he also directed Penelope Skinner's new play The Village Bike at the Royal Court.^[5]

Directing credits include

• Edward II by Christopher Marlowe (2013 National Theatre) ^[6]

• The Changeling by Thomas Middleton & William Rowley (2012 Young Vic) ^[7]

• The Village Bike by Penelope Skinner (2011 Royal Court)^[8]

• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (2010 Young Vic)^[9]

• The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh (2010^[10] and 2011^[11] Young Vic)

• The Girlfriend Experience by Alecky Blythe (2008 Royal Court and Drum Plymouth, 2009 Young Vic)^[12]

• Bliss by Olivier Choinière, translated by Caryl Churchill (2009 Royal Court Theatre)^[13]

• Family Plays: The Good Family by Joakim Pirinen & The Khomenko Family Chronicles by Natalia Vorozhbit (2007 Royal Court Theatre)

• A Respectable Wedding by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Rory Bremner (2007 Young Vic)^[14]

• The Fever by Wallace Shawn (2005 Theatre 503 in association with Young Vic)

• A Girl In A Car With A Man by Rob Evans (2004 Royal Court)

• The One with the Oven by Emma Rosoman (2002 Royal Court)

• A Thought In Three Parts by Wallace Shawn (2002 Battersea Arts Centre)

References