Kirstie Davis

Kirstie has worked at many theatres around the country including the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, Salisbury Playhouse and Cheltenham Everyman. For six years she was the Associate Director and then Acting Artistic Director of Watford Palace Theatre where she directed acclaimed productions of Top Girls, The Daughter-in-law and The Beauty Queen of Leenane.

She was CEO and Artistic Director of Forest Forge from 2009 to 2016 where she commissioned and directed over 20 new plays, which included: Free Folk by Gary Owen, the first adaptations of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Stardust by Russ Tunney and Woman of Flowers by Kaite O’Reilly.

Recent projects include: Kiss me Quickstep by Amanda Whittington at Queens Theatre, Hornchurch, Daddy Long Legs by Paul Gordon and John Caird and The Girl on the Train by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel at The Barn Theatre, Ladies That Bus and the sequel Ladies That Dig by Joyce Branagh, both of which went on national tours; Robin Hood by Andrew Pollard at The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster and a revival of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary by John Nicholson and Tom’s Midnight Garden by David Wood at The Minack Theatre. The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary is now on a national tour and will be at the Southwark Playhouse this Christmas. She has just directed a pilot tour of The Elves and the Shoemaker by Joyce Branagh and is about to direct Alice in Wonderland by Andrew Pollard at Williamson Park in Lancaster.