Josie Rourke (she/her)

For the Royal Court: Crazyblackmuthfuckin’self, Loyal Women, The Herd, Children’s Day.   

Other theatre includes: Dancing at Lughnasa, Men Should Weep (National); Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing (West End); Measure for Measure, Saint Joan, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (& Broadway), The Vote, Privacy, City of Angels (& West End), Coriolanus, The Weir (& West End), Berenice, The Physicists, The Recruiting Officer, The Cryptogram, Frame 312, The Wrong Side of the Rainbow (Donmar); The Machine (Manchester International Festival); Sixty-Six Books, …like a fishbone…, If There Is I Haven’t Found it Yet, Apologia, 2,000 Feet Away, Tinderbox, How To Curse (Bush); Here (Riverside Studios); The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); The Life and Death of King John, Believe What You Will (RSC); The Long and the Short and the Tall (Lyceum, Sheffield); Much Ado About Nothing, The Unthinkable, World Music, Kick for Touch (Crucible, Sheffield); My Dad’s a Birdman (Young Vic); The Vagina Monologues (UK Tour); Romeo and Juliet (Liverpool Playhouse).  

Television includes: Talking Heads.   

Film includes: Mary Queen of Scots.   

Josie was the Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse, the Trainee Associate Director of The Royal Court Theatre, Associate Director of Sheffield Theatres, The Artistic Director of The Bush Theatre and The Donmar Warehouse.