Carrie Cracknell


Carrie Cracknell is a British theatre director. She was Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, London from 2007–2012. She was Associate Director at both the Young Vic and the Royal Court.

Background

Cracknell was born in Carlisle and was raised in Oxford. She read history at the University of Nottingham where she was president of The Nottingham New Theatre. She later studied directing at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.
She is married and has three children. She lives in London.

Career

At university she set up a production company called Hush with a group of friends including the actor Ruth Wilson. Their first show transferred to New York and London while they were still studying. At the age of 26 Carrie became the youngest Artistic Director in Britain when she and Natalie Abrahami took over The Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, which they ran for 5 years and where she directed extensively.
Her first dance/theatre collaboration at The Gate, I Am Falling, transferred to Sadler’s Wells and was nominated for a South Bank Show Award. After leaving The Gate, Carrie went on to create her iconic production of A Doll’s House which ran twice at the Young Vic before transferring to the Duke of York’s in the West End and BAM in New York and for which she was nominated for the Evening Standard Best Director Award. It led to her developing the short film Nora with Nick Payne in response to the play which was produced by the Young Vic. She then went on to direct her first opera, Berg’s Wozzeck, for the ENO at the Colliseum, which was nominated for an Olivier Award and an International Opera Award. In 2019 she directed Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge in Seawall/A Life at The Public and on Broadway.
Carrie now regularly collaborates with the National Theatre where her credits include her acclaimed productions of Medea, A Deep Blue Sea, Blurred Lines and Julie
Other credits include Macbeth and Electra Birdland and Pigeons Oil A Doll’s House and Stacy

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