Ian Rickson

Artistic Director 1998-2006.

Ian worked as a freelance theatre director before becoming Artistic Director of the Royal Court in 1998.

The Royal Court Theatre means the world to me. To work for a company that puts the writer at the centre, and strives to create the best conditions for everybody to thrive in serving this mission, is a privilege.

— Ian Rickson

FOR THE ROYAL COURT

Jerusalem (also West End at the Apollo Theatre and winner of the 2009 Evening Standard and Critics Circle awards for Best Play), The Winterling, The Night Heron and Mojo (also Chicago), all by Jez Butterworth; Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen and This is a Chair by Caryl Churchill; Dublin Carol and The Weir by Conor McPherson (also Dublin, Chicago, West End and Broadway, and a Laurence Olivier nomination for Best Director); The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (also Broadway); Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett; Alice Trilogy by Tom Murphy; The Sweetest Swing in Baseball by Rebecca Gilman; Fallout by Roy Williams; The Day I Stood Still by Kevin Elyot; The Lights by Howard Korder; Pale Horse and Some Voices by Joe Penhall; Ashes and Sand by Judy Upton; Killers by Adam Pernak; Sab by Michael Cook; Wildfire by Jonathan Harvey.

OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES

Parlour Song by Jez Butterworth (Almeida); The Hothouse by Harold Pinter (National); Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen in a new adaptation by Christopher Shinn (Broadway). Also productions at the Gate Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and Battersea Arts Centre.

FILM INCLUDES

Fallout by Roy Williams (Company Pictures for Channel 4); Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett (BBC).