Ola Ince

For the Royal Court: Living Newspaper, Poet in da Corner (& UK tour), White Sky (& RWCMD/Gate).

Other theatre includes: Romeo & Juliet (Globe); Appropriate (Donmar); Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Gate); Start Swimming (& Summerhall), The Convert, Dutchman, One Million Tiny Plays About Britain (Young Vic); Broad Shadow, Access Denied, Cutting It (National Theatre); Rachel, The Soft of Her Palm (Finborough); Pets Corner (Arcola); Games (Pleasance).

As associate director, theatre includes: Tina: The Musical (West End/Broadway/Hamburg/Utrecht); Tipping the Velvet (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); Bugsy Malone (Lyric, Hammersmith); Fog (UK tour).  

As assistant director, theatre includes: Shakespeare Trilogy (Donmar/St. Ann’s, NYC); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Dara, A Taste of Honey (National); Porgy & Bess (Regent’s Park Open Air); Josephine & I (Bush); Wild Swans, Disco Pigs, Electra (Young Vic); Fanta Orange, Blue Serge (Finborough); Secret Thoughts, The Demolition Man (Octagon, Bolton).

Awards include: Genesis Future Director Award, Theatre & Performance Award (H 100 Club Awards), 50 Game Changers Of Now (The Elle List). 

Ola has been Resident Assistant Director and Senior Reader at the Finborough Theatre, and was recipient of the Rose Bruford Directing Bursary and the Boris Karloff Bursary. In 2015 Ola became a BBC Performing Arts Fellow and Resident Associate Director at the Lyric, Hammersmith. She is currently an Associate Director at the Royal Court and Artistic Associate at the Lyric and Theatre Royal, Stratford East.