Benedict Andrews

Benedict Andrews is a multi-award winning playwright, director, filmmaker and poet.

As Director: Ellen B/Ex; Macbeth; King Lear (Þjóðleikhúsið, Reykjavik); Cosi fan Tutte; Pique Dame (Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Three Sisters (Young Vic); Medea; Fiery Angel (Komische Oper Berlin); A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic/St. Ann’s Warehouse); The Maids (Sydney Company/Lincoln Centre); La Boheme (ENO/Dutch National Opera); Every Breath; The Seagull; Measure for Measure; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Belvoir Street Theatre); Groß und Klein (Sydney Theatre Company/Barbican); Saved; Drunk Enough to Say I Love You; The Ugly One; Blackbird; Cleansed (Schaubühne, Berlin); The City; The War of the Roses; Julius Caesar; Fireface; La Dispute (Sydney Theatre Company) and Moving Target (Sydney Opera House).

His original plays include: Like a Sun; Every Breath; The Stars; Geronimo and Gloria. He has written new versions of The Seagull and Three Sisters and a version of Jean Genet’s The Maids with Andrew Upton.

Film includes: Una and Seberg.

In 2012 Andrews won the London Critics Circle Best Director Award for his production of Three Sisters at the Young Vic. His directing work over the years has won him several Gríman Awards, Helpmann Awards, Sydney Theatre Awards and Melbourne Green Room Awards, among others.