Bijan Sheibani

Bijan Sheibani (born c 1979) is an award-winning English-Iranian theatre director. He is currently artistic director of the Actors Touring Company.

Sheibani was awarded the James Menzies Kitchen Trust Award in 2003, which funded a double bill of Harold Pinter plays that he staged later that year at Battersea Arts Centre (and which he had been a runner up for the previous year). He won the inaugural Peter Brook Empty Spaces award and the 2002 Mark Marvin Rent Subsidy Award, which allowed him to stage"Have I None" at the Southwark Playhouse. Sheibani also received the Cohen Bursary, which saw him serve as director on attachment at both the National Theatre studio and English Touring Theatre for the year 2004/5.

In 2004, he assisted Katie Mitchell in a series of workshops exploring Stanislavski and neuroscience at the NT studio.

Credits

*"Gone Too Far" (2007, Royal Court Theatre)
*"The Brothers Size" (2006, Soho Theatre - reading)
*"Antigone" (2006, NT studio - workshop)
*"Fixer" (2006, Almeida Theatre)
*"Other Hands" (2006, Soho Theatre)
*"Last Summer At Chulimsk" (2006, Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast - reading)
*"Breath" (2006, BAC)
*"Crime of the Twenty-first Century" (2006, NT studio)
*"Amnesia" (2006, Royal Court Theatre - reading)
*"Schlafengehn" (2004, Royal Court Theatre - reading)
*"Flush" (2004, Soho Theatre)
*"The Clink" (2003, Rose Bruford College)
*"Party Time"/"One for the Road" (2003, BAC)
*"Have I None" (2002, Southwark Playhouse)
*"The Stoning" (2002, BAC - reading)
*"Summer" (2002, Lion & Unicorn Theatre)
*"Peace For Our Time" (2002, City of Westminster College)
*"The Lover" (2000, Burton Taylor Theatre, Oxford)

Assistant director credits

*"The Tempest" (2007, Royal Opera House)
*"Cinderella" (2006, China Children's National Theatre)
*"The Tempest" (2005, Copenhagen Opera House)
*"As You Like It" (2005, Young Vic/ Wyndham's Theatre)
*"After The Fire" (2005, Olivier Theatre NT - reading)
*"The Black Glove" (2005, Olivier Theatre NT - reading)
*"A Dream Play" (2005, NT)
*"Twelfth Night" (2004, English Touring Theatre)
*"Primo" (2004, NT studio - workshop)
*"The Io Passion" (2004, Almeida Theatre)
*"Terrorism" (2003, Royal Court Theatre)

Background

Sheibani was born in Liverpool, and raised in Brighton. He studied English Literature at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and holds an MA in advanced theatre practice from the Central School of Speech and Drama.

External links

* [http://www.pfd.co.uk/clients/sheibani/f-sdi.html Agency CV]