Lyndsey Turner

Lyndsey Turner is a British theatre director known for directing plays in the West End, the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Broadway. She is the third female director to receive a Laurence Olivier Award (2014) in the ceremony's history. Turner graduated with an MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck, University of London in 2007. In addition to directing plays, Turner also serves as a board member of Pentabus Theatre and has served as an associate director of Sheffield Theatres and Gate Theatre. She has worked extensively at the Royal Court Theatre and writes regularly for the theatre section of The Guardian. She directs and teaches with the Royal Shakespeare Company and lectures at the University of London for their MFA in Theatre Directing course. In 2014, Turner directed Rebecca Hall in "Machinal" on Broadway for the Roundabout Theatre Company which marked both Hall's and Turner's debut in the American theatrical scene. The revival was met with critical acclaim. In June 2014, she directed "Fathers and Sons" at the Donmar Warehouse. In August 2015, she will direct Benedict Cumberbatch in Sonia Friedman Productions' "Hamlet" at the Barbican Theatre. In November 2013, she was nominated for a London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for "Chimerica." She was the only director who is not a past or present artistic director of the Royal National Theatre to be nominated in the category. She subsequently won the Critic's Circle Theatre Awards and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director in 2014 for the same play.