Lilac Yosiphon
Theatre Director
About
Lilac Yosiphon is a writer-director and the Baylis Director at the Old Vic. She is currently the Associate Director & BSL Director on Summerfolk at the National Theatre and the Young Company Director at Stratford East.
Trained at Mountview, her work in theatre includes:
As director, Kiss Me Quickstep (Derby Theatre); Scenes from RENT and Oh! What A Lovely War (Curve, Leicester); I Want to Live (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Kaleidoscopes (Criterion Theatre, West End); Heroes (VAULT Festival, Origins Award nomination); The Glass Will Shatter (Omnibus and on UK tour); One Last Thing (For Now) (Old Red Lion Theatre, Off-West End Award nominated);
As Associate Director, Mary Page Marlowe and Oedipus (The Old Vic), Chariots of Fire (Sheffield Theatre), Odd and the Frost Giants (Unicorn Theatre), Alice in Wonderland & Robin Hood and the Magic Oak (Derby Theatre), 10 Nights (Graeae, Tamasha & Bush Theatre, Olivier Award nominated).
As staff director, The House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre; As Assistant/Resident Director, The Real Thing (Old Vic), Billy Elliot the Musical and The Wizard of Oz (Curve, Leicester).
BSL Direction includes The Magic Flute (Opera North) and Summerfolk (Olivier stage, National Theatre).
Runner up for the Peter Hall Award 2023 & recipient of the inaugural Annie Castledine Award. Recipient of an MGCFutures Bursary 2021, awarded an Unlimited commission in partnership with Polka Theatre.
She wrote and performed in There's No Place Like (premiered at Brighton Fringe 2015, transferred to the Arts Theatre and was awarded Outstanding Site Specific at San Diego Fringe 2017), Jericho’s Rose (Here’s the News from over There, The Northern Stage, Edinburgh Fringe 2015) and Faux Amis (Memoire de l’Avenir, Paris). Her play Asylum won the SES International Playwriting Award in LA and had a rehearsed reading at the Odyssey Theatre.
Lilac is currently in development for projects for stage and screen. Get in touch for more information.
