A Keynote Speech with Rob Hastie
Stage@TheDock
Tickets (Free)
Booking required
Sat 18 July
7.00pm
Keynote Speech
Each year at Fresh Ink, we invite a leading voice from the theatre industry to reflect on the state of new writing, the stories we tell and where the future might take us.
Following previous keynote speakers David Byrne and Ola Animashawun, this year's keynote comes from Robert Hastie, deputy artistic director of the National Theatre and one of the UK's most influential theatre-makers.
Across a career spanning directing, artistic leadership and championing new work, Robert has helped bring some of the country's most ambitious productions to life. From Standing at the Sky's Edge and Operation Mincemeat to his work at Sheffield Theatres, the Donmar Warehouse and now the National Theatre, he has consistently championed bold storytelling and the artists behind it.
Drawing on his experience developing new work, leading organisations and navigating a rapidly changing cultural landscape, Robert will share his thoughts on the opportunities, challenges and possibilities facing writers and theatre-makers today.
Whether you're an emerging playwright, an established artist, or simply curious about where theatre goes next, this is a rare opportunity to hear from one of the people helping shape its future.
Rob Hastie
Robert Hastie is Deputy Artistic Director of the National Theatre, where his work includes Summerfolk, Hamlet (also BAM, New York) and Standing at the Sky’s Edge, which began at the Sheffield Crucible, and subsequently ran in the West End, winning two Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical.
Other theatre includes: Operation Mincemeat , West End and Broadway (Olivier Award for Best New Musical); for the Donmar Warehouse My Night with Reg (also West End), The York Realist (co-produced with Sheffield Theatres) and Splendour ; for Sheffield Theatres Chariots of Fire, Miss Saigon, ROCK / PAPER / SCISSORS, She Loves Me, The Band Plays On, Coriolanus, Guys and Dolls, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Wizard of Oz, Of Kith and Kin (co-produced with the Bush), Much Ado About Nothing (co-produced with Ramps On The Moon) and Julius Caesar ; Macbeth at Shakespeare’s Globe; Breaking the Code at the Manchester Royal Exchange; Henry V at Regent’s Park; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Theatr Clwyd; Carthage and Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun at the Finborough; Sixty-Six Books at the Bush; A Breakfast of Eels at the Print Room. TV includes Sex Education. Robert was Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres and Associate Director at the Donmar Warehouse.
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