Episode 24 - Natalie Abrahami - The Amplify Podcast

Nottingham Playcast

The Amplify Podcast is a new strand in our Playcast series.

Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown.

These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing.
In this episode Craig talks with Natalie Abrahami.

Natalie read English Literature at Cambridge University and started out at the Royal Court as a Graduate Trainee before training with the Young Vic and National Theatre. She was awarded the James Menzies-Kitchin Award for Emerging Directors in 2005.
Between 2007 and 2012 Natalie was Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill with Carrie Cracknell. During their tenure they were awarded the Paul Hamlyn Breakthrough Fund for Creative Entrepreneurs.
Natalie then went on to join the Young Vic as Genesis Fellow and Associate Director 2013-16. She has also been Associate Artist at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton and at Hull Truck.
Work for theatre and opera includes: Swive [Elizabeth] (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe), ANNA (National Theatre),The Meeting (Chichester Festival Theatre), Machinal (Almeida), Wings, Happy Days, After Miss Julie and Ah, Wilderness! (Young Vic); Queen Anne (Royal Shakespeare Company and Theatre Royal Haymarket); How the Whale Became and Other Tales (Linbury, Royal Opera House); The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Headlong); Pericles (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); Yerma (Hull Truck); Play and Not I (Battersea Arts Centre).
Natalie's productions at the Gate Theatre include Vanya and The Kreutzer Sonata (which later transferred to La MaMa, New York).
Film credits include Mayday, The Roof and Life’s a Pitch.

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