Blanche McIntyre’s directing credits span Shakespeare’s Globe, Nuffield Theatre, The English Touring Theatre, Out of Joint, The Royal Exchange, Southwark Playhouse, Bush Theatre, Focus Theatre and Soho Theatre, among many others.
She has won numerous awards including the Leverhulme Bursary for Emerging Theatre Directors in 2009; the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Newcomer; the Off West End Theatre Award for Best Director in 2012; and Best Director (for The Seagull) at the TMA UK Theatre Awards in 2013.
Blanche is currently Associate Director at Nuffield Theatre. For HOME’s opening season, she directs Ted Hughes’s translation of The Oresteia, the first great work of theatre.