Josie Rourke is to leave the Donmar Warehouse next year.
She will have held the post of artistic director for eight years during which time West End transfers included her revival of Conor McPherson’s The Weir and associate director Robert Hastie’s production of Kevin Elyot’s My Night with Reg.
Productions of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Privacy by James Graham and Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Shakespeare Trilogy transferred to New York.
Coriolanus, with Tom Hiddleston in the title role winning the Evening Standard Award for Best Actor had a cinema screening, and James Graham's The Vote, broadcast live on More4 on the night of the 2015 General Election, saw the venue's work reach ever wider audiences.
It has also been announced that executive producer Kate Pakenham will leave the Donmar this summer.
Rourke and Pakenham were the first female partnership to run a London theatre and during their tenure of the Donmar half of the directors and actors on its stages during their tenure have been women.