Nathan Powell, Creative Director

Nathan Powell is Creative Director for the Everyman & Playhouse Theatres.

Previously Artistic Director of the National Student Drama Festival (NSDF), Powell has championed emerging talent and forged groundbreaking partnerships, showcasing some of the most exciting new work from across the country. He was the Creative Producer and Associate Artist for 20 Stories High (an Associate Company of the theatres) and is co-founder of New Step Theatre with writer Joe Ward Munrow (their production of DOGS was a sellout in the Playhouse Studio in 2022).

As writer and adapter, credits include Pleasant Land and Homegirl (Derby Theatre); while as a director his recent credits include Sucker Punch (Queens Theatre Hornchurch in association with the National Theatre) and A Play for the Living in the Time of Extinction (Headlong and The Barbican in association with Shakespeare North).

He is about to direct The Mountaintop for Leicester Curve, which will tour nationally this Autumn, and Alice In Wonderland for Shakespeare North at Christmas.