Irina Brown (born Leningrad, Russia) is a theatre and opera director in the United Kingdom, where she has lived and worked for over thirty years. Brown was the artistic director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow from 1996 to 2000, and Natural Perspective Theatre Company, London from 2006 to 2011. She is noted for directing the production of Further Than the Furthest Thing by Zinnie Harris for the Royal National Theatre, The Sound of Music for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Racine's Britannicus at Wilton's Music Hall and The Importance of Being Earnest at Open Air Theatre, Regents Park as well as Bird of Night by Dominique Le Gendre at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and War and Peace for the Scottish Opera/ RSAMD. Brown was the Granada Artist-in-Residence at the University of California, Davis in 2004 and 2008.Faculty Profile, University of California Davis
Currently she is Programme Director for the MA and MFA Contemporary Directing Practice at Rose Bruford College.
Selected Directing Credits +YearTitleWriterTheatreNotes1996A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam ShakespeareThe inaugural production for the Southern Shakespeare Festival, Florida, produced by Michael J. Trout1996Blood LibelArnold WeskerNorwich PlayhouseWorld Premiere1998Mate in ThreeVittorio FranceschiTron Theatre, GlasgowCompanyTron Theatre CompanyDesignPamela McBainLightingGeorge ThomsonPerformerFiona BellPerformerJohn BettPerformerAndy Gray1998SpeedrunIsabel WrightWorld PremiereThe Tempest DreamAdaptation of William Shakespeare's The TempestThe Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet UnionDavid GreigThe MisunderstandingGate Theatre, Dublin Adaptation of Camus’ absurdist play. Featured as part of the Consummate Classics Season; the production was the winner of the Time Out magazine/01- for London Award 1990Marina Tsvetaeva. Poet. Outcast.Royal National Theatre, (Cottesloe Stage), LondonStarred Fiona ShawThe Doll's HouseBirmingham Rep TheatreRomeo and JulietContact Theatre, ManchesterOur Country's GoodTabakov Theatre, Moscow
References
http://www.performing-arts.co.uk/irina-brown/