Hannah Chissick

Director

Jerry’s Girls (Menier Chocolate Factory), Treason the Musical (West End/Alexandra Palace Theatre), The Boy Who Sailed the Ocean in an Armchair (NYMT), Eugenius (Turbine Theatre – Best Director, The Offies), Pack of Lies at the Chocolate Factory, Mother Courage and Her Children and the UK professional première of the musical Side Show (Southwark Playhouse), Down the Dock Road (Liverpool Royal Court), for the NYMT – Brass (Hackney Empire) and Sunday in the Park With George (The Other Palace), Rags, by Amour (Royal Academy of Music), Marry Me a Little (St James Studio) and Teechers (John Godber Theatre Company).

She was Assistant Director to Matthew Warchus on the play Art in London and New York and was Associate Director on his acclaimed production of Boeing Boeing, directing casts in London, on Broadway and in Melbourne. In 2003, she became the youngest women to become an Artistic Director in the UK, when Harrogate Theatre appointed her at the age of 25.

Other credits include the critically-acclaimed revival of Side by Side by Sondheim (The Venue, London), Abigail’s Party (Northcott Theatre Exeter), a tour of Grumpy Old Women Live, the world première of Horrid Henry – Live (tour and West End), and the world premiere of Pushing Up Poppies (Theatre503).