Ed Burnside

Currently: The Fear of 13 (Donmar Warehouse) - Associate Director for Justin Martin.

Upcoming: Kyoto (RSC - Soho Place)
Billy Elliot The Musical - Korean revival for Working Title Films and Seensee (Seoul)
Billy for Good Chance Theatre (Workshop)

Most Recently: International Associate Director of Billy Elliot The Musical (Tokyo and Osaka), Ed was Associate Director of Erica Whyman’s production of Hamnet (Swan Theatre - RSC and Garrick Theatre, West End), after returning from USA as Resident Director of Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin’s production of The Jungle (St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn and Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington DC).

Television and Film: Ed was Children’s Director on The Crown - Season 3 - Aberfan (Netflix). He wrote and directed Matilda at Home (SKY VIP/RSC).

Theatre As Director: Matilda The Musical at Home (SKY VIP), The Little Prince (ICT - Brighton),  Black (Theatre Royal, Stratford East, Adelaide Festival, SOHO Theatre, Edinburgh Festival – Total Theatre Award Nomination for Innovation and Experimentation), Persuasion, Far From The Madding Crowd, Northanger Abbey (DCTC National Tours), Le Gateau Chocolat (Menier Chocolate Factory, Sydney Opera House) Cinderella (Fareham and Redditch), Jack and The Beanstalk (Fareham), Diamond (Brighton Dome), Threepenny Opera (Old Market), The Circle Game (Brit School, Brighton Festival).

Theatre As Associate, Rehearsal, Resident Director: Hamnet (RSC and Garrick Theatre, West End), The Jungle (Good Chance, NYC and Washington DC), Matilda The Musical (Resident and Senior Rehearsal Director - Cambridge Theatre, West End), Billy Elliot The Musical (Resident Director - UK and Ireland Tour and Hamburg, Deputy International Associate Director - Japan and Korea). Starting Line (Paralympics 2012), Twisted Dreams (Street late night circus – Glastonbury Festival).

Workshops include: New versions of Closer Than Ever and Starting Here Starting Now (with orchestrator Julian Kelly, Chichester - with special permission from Richard Maltby and David Shire),  Marry Me A Little (Chichester). The Puppy That Ate Christmas and Smouldering (New Writing South)

Ed has been a visiting director and lecturer at University of Chichester, Central School of Speech and Drama, ICTheatre Brighton, Trinity College of Music, BRIT School, Croydon, Italia Conti (Acting Department) and Urdang, London as well as delivering workshops for The Old Vic. Ed trained originally as an actor. Notable acting credits include: Power (National Theatre), Iphigenia at Aulis (Oxford Playhouse), The Iron Eyelashes (Dublin, Ipswich) and Bright Star (BBC Films).