Irina Brown
Director FILLER UP!
In October 2003 Irina is directing Andrei Tarkovsky’s BORIS GODUNOV at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden to celebrate the production’s twentieth anniversary.

Recently directed THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES by Eve Ensler in the West End of London (the Arts Theatre and the New Ambassadors), as well as the touring production of the piece for the national tour, and PARENTS’ EVENING, a new play by Bathsheba Doran, at the Cherry Lane Theatre, New York.

Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre, Glasgow from 1996 - 1999. Pdns. included UK premieres of Lavochkin-5 by Alexei Shipenko and Mate in Three by Vittorio Franceschi, Sea Urchins by Sharman Macdonald, The Tempest Dream after William Shakespeare, the world premiere of Speedrun by Isabel Wright, and The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union by David Greig, developed at the newly established Tron Writers’ Lab in 1997.

Directed an award-winning production of FURTHER THAN THE FURTHEST THING by Zinnie Harris, for the Royal National Theatre in co-production with the Tron (Edinburgh Festival; Cottesloe, RNT 2000; Tricycle Theatre, London, 2001; British Council Tour of South Africa, summer 2001).

Other directing credits include The Misunderstanding (Gate Theatre, Consummate Classics Season - winner of the Time Out/-01 for London Award 1990); Marina Tsvetaeva. Poet. Outcast. (with Fiona Shaw, Cottesloe, Royal National Theatre); A Doll’s House (Birmingham Rep), the world premiere of Blood Libel by Arnold Wesker (Norwich Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet (Contact Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (inaugural production for the Southern Shakespeare Festival, Florida); The Sound of Music (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Our Country’s Good (Tabakov Theatre, Moscow).

Worked as a staff producer at the Royal Opera House, directing a number of revivals. She directed Dido and Aeneas at the Royal Academy of Music.

Radio work includes an English-language premiere of More Sinned Against by Alexander Ostrovsky in a new version by Frank McGuinness for BBC 3 (with Rhys Ifans and Samantha Bond).