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Dateline: 29th June, 2011
New Artistic Director at The Gate Christopher Haydon is to be the new Artistic Director at The Gate, Notting Hill. He will take up the position in January 2012, taking over from Natalie Abrahami and Carrie Cracknell who step down as Joint Artistic Directors in January after nearly five years in the role.
Haydon is currently the Associate Director of On Theatre and an Associate Director at the Bush Theatre, where he has been collaborating with Josie Rourke to curate and oversee the Sixty Six Books project.
He will be directing David Davalos’s Wittenberg at the Gate in August, as part of Abrahami and Cracknell’s final season at the theatre. Haydon studied at Cambridge University and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, the National Theatre Studio, the Lincoln Centre in New York, and with Cicely Berry at the RSC. In 2007 he was the recipient of both the inaugural Chichester Festival Theatre Heller Fellowship and the Channel Four Theatre Director's Bursary where he spent a year on attachment at the Salisbury Playhouse. As assistant director, theatre includes Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart (Chichester Festival Theatre and West End), Twelfth Night (Chichester Festival Theatre), Othello, Touched, What the Butler Saw, Robin Hood (Salisbury Playhouse), On Religion (Soho Theatre/On Theatre), The Desire Tree (Oxford Playhouse/Tumanishvili Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia) The Found Man (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh)
As a director, theatre includes In the Beginning (Bush Theatre/Westminster Abbey); Pressure Drop (On Theatre/Wellcome Collection); A Safe Harbour for Elizabeth Bishop (Southbank Centre); Monsters and Notes From Underground (both Arcola Theatre); A Number (Salisbury Playhouse); Grace (British Council/On Theatre, Theatre Du Poche, Brussels, Belgium). He also directed the national tour of Deep Cut for Sherman Cymru. Forthcoming work includes Sixty Six Books at the Bush Theatre. "I am thrilled to be taking over at the Gate," he said. "It is a small space with limitless horizons located in one of the most exciting parts of London. I can't think of a better place to be making theatre today."
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