Polly Wain

Polly Wain

Associate Director

For the New Vic as Director: The Miner Birds, Blessing in Burslem, a staged reading of The Doris Effect and Alfie and War (RSC 37 Plays).

As Assistant Director: A Matter of Life and Death, The Three Musketeers, The Company of Wolves, The Haunting, Ladies Down Under, The Nutcracker – A Christmas Fairytale.

Other credits as Director include: The Queen’s Shoulders (BCB and Trinity Church Leek); An Evening with Simon Stephens (Royal Exchange Theatre); The Sobcentre (Arts House Wimbledon and The Island Bristol); Marathon (The Cockpit Theatre Online); V-Card and Trouble (The PRSC, Bristol); Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons (Samuel Beckett Studio Theatre, Dublin); Cherry (Edinburgh Fringe Festival).

Other credits as Assistant Director include: No Pay? No Way!, Beginning, Betty! A Sort of Musical (Royal Exchange Theatre); Macbeth (Bristol Old Vic).

Polly has a Masters in Theatre Directing from Birkbeck, University of London. Previously, Polly was Resident Assistant Director at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.