Robert Icke
Adapter and Director
Robert Icke is a writer and director. His recent productions include Children of Nora and Oedipus at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, where he is Ibsen Artist in Residence, and where his new production Judas will open in 2022. Other credits include Enemy of the People (Park Avenue Armory), Ivanov (Schauspiel Stuttgart), and The Doctor (Adelaide Festival, Almeida, will open in the West End in 2022).
His work while Associate Director at the Almeida (until 2019) included adapting and directing The Wild Duck, Mary Stuart (also West End and national tour), Uncle Vanya, Oresteia (also West End, for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award) and 1984 (co-created with Duncan Macmillan, also Broadway, West End, national and international tours), as a director, his productions included Hamlet (also West End and screened on BBC2), The Fever and Mr Burns.