Nadia Fall is a playwright and theatre and film director. From 2025, she is the artistic director and joint-chief executive of the Young Vic Theatre.
Nadia Fall is a playwright and theatre and film director. From 2025, she is the artistic director and joint-chief executive of the Young Vic Theatre.
She was born to south Asian parents in Southwark, London and raised in and around London as well as in the Middle East. [1] [2] She trained in directing at Goldsmiths College, University of London and on the National Theatre Studio’s directors programme. [3]
As a theatre director at the Royal National Theatre her plays included directing The Doctor’s Dilemma in 2012. and writing and directing Home in 2013. [4] [5] She also directed Chewing Gum Dreams by Michaela Coel and Inua Ellams’ adaptation of Three Sisters . She was an associate at the National between 2015 and 2018. [1] [6] She also worked with London's Hampstead Theatre and Bush Theatre, where she directed Taylor Mac's Hir. [7]
She joined Theatre Royal Stratford East as artistic director in 2017. The productions she directed at Stratford East include August Wilson’s King Hedley II starring Sir Lenny Henry and a large-scale production of Noye's Fludde in collaboration with the English National Opera, which won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. [1] [6] Her programming highlights included a hit revival of Equus , which won three Off-West End Awards in 2020, including Best Production, and later transferred to the West End. [8] [9]
In 2024, she was announced to be succeeding Kwame Kwei-Armah in January 2025 as the artistic director and joint-chief executive of the Young Vic Theatre. [1]
The world premiere of her debut feature-length film Brides occurred at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. [10] [11]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Brides | Director | |