Joseph Alford

Alford is Artistic Director of Theatre O. His Movement Director credits include Blue/Orange, Happy Days, The Cherry Orchard and Blackta (Young Vic), How the Whale Became and Clemency (Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House), Cleansed, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Hansel and Gretel, Beauty and the Beast, The Cat in the Hat and A Woman Killed with Kindness (National Theatre), Hamlet (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Trial of Ubu (Hampstead), Playhouse (Orange Tree Theatre), Idomeneo (English National Opera) and Dancing at Lughnasa (Theatre Clwyd). As a director, his work includes The Secret Agent (Theatre O/Young Vic), The Man Jesus (Lyric Belfast and UK tour), Delirium, Astronaut and The Argument (Theatre O/Barbican), The Bridge (Mimbre), Arsenic and Old Lace (Derby Playhouse), 3 Dark Tales (Theatre O) and Sick Room (co-director, National Youth Theatre). His opera credits as Associate Director include The Way Back Home (ENO/Young Vic), Neither and Le Vin herbé (Berlin State Opera) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (English Touring Opera).