AWARDS & COMMENDATIONS
Winner, The Stage Debut Award 2019 for Best Director, for Hobson’s Choice
Nominee, UK Theatre Awards 2019 for Best Director, for Hobson’s Choice
2022-24 Peter Hall Bursary Recipient, National Theatre
Winner, OffWestEnd Award 2025 for Best Production, Scenes from the Climate Era
In 2022 included in The Stage 25, 25 theatre-makers The Stage “believe will go on to great things over the next quarter-century”
2023 Eurodram commendation for translation of Carbon by Pier Lorenzo Pisano
Thalissa Teixeira & William Robinson in Julius Caesar, RSC, photo by Marc Brenner
EDUCATION
National Theatre Directors’ Course, 2021
MFA Theatre Directing, Birkbeck, University of London, 2016–18
MPhil Medieval & Renaissance Literature, University of Cambridge, 2014–15
BA Hons English Literature, University of Cambridge, 2011-14
Norah Lopez Holden, Michael Workéyè and Hayley Carmichael in SHED: EXPLODED VIEW, Royal Exchange Theatre, photo by Johan Persson
STAGE
2026
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Dracula, National Youth Theatre
2025
Scenes from the Climate Era, Gate Theatre at the Playground Theatre
2024
Look Back in Anger, Almeida Theatre
The Glass Menagerie (UK tour), Rose Theatre/ Belgrade Theatre/ Alexandra Palace
SHED: EXPLODED VIEW, Royal Exchange Theatre
2023
Into the Woods, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Julius Caesar, Royal Shakespeare Company
2022
The Glass Menagerie, Royal Exchange Theatre
Britannicus, Lyric Hammersmith
Kes, Octagon Theatre/ Theatre by the Lake
2021
ERROR ERROR ERROR, Marlowe Theatre
Name, Place, Animal, Thing & Hidden Fires as part of Six Artists in Search of a Play, Almeida Theatre
HARM, Bush Theatre
2020
Europe, LAMDA
2019
Utopia, Royal Exchange Theatre – The Den
Hobson’s Choice, Royal Exchange Theatre
As Additional Director
2022
we were promised honey!, YESYESNONO, Paines Plough Roundabout/ Soho Theatre/ International tour
Nishla Smith in Kes, Octagon Theatre, photo by Marc Brenner
SCREEN
2025
This Room, Now, Gate Theatre
2021
HARM, BBC/ Angelica Films/ Bush Theatre
TRANSLATIONS
2024
Antigone Power, Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, published in the Methuen Drama Anthology of Contemporary Italian Plays
2022
Carbon, Pier Lorenzo Pisano, published in the Methuen Drama Anthology of Contemporary Italian Plays
2019
Raisa, Davide Carnevali, commissioned by Royal Shakespeare Company
All Saints, Pier Lorenzo Pisano, commissioned by Royal Court
TEACHING
Atri has recently been a Visiting Lecturer in Directing at Birkbeck, University of London and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has taught acting at drama schools including LAMDA, Guildhall and ALRA, and design at Central School of Speech & Drama. In addition, he has been a directing mentor for the JMK Trust; a workshop facilitator at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Young Vic Creators’ Programme, Theatre by the Lake, Lyric Hammersmith, Almeida (among others); and a visiting practitioner for the International Schools Theatre Association (ISTA). He has also taught at Cambridge, Oxford and NYU.
AWARD AND PRIZE PANELS
2024 JMK Award for Emerging Directors
2023 Laurence Olivier Bursaries, SOLT
2022 Spotlight Award
2021 South Asian Writers Commission Scheme, 45 North
2019 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting
REPRESENTATION
Davina Shah at TEAM, davina@team-artists.co.uk,