Oliver Hurst

Oliver Hurst (He/Him) is Artistic Director of Red Brick Theatre. He is a director with a commitment to telling stories exploring memory, grief and human relationships with time. Oliver won the Royal Exchange Hodgkiss Award 2024 and is a member of the Young Vic Fresh Directions cohort 2023/24.

He is currently assistant directing Josh Roche on a dazzling revival of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at the Royal Exchange, and developing Bad Moult (Winner of the Cambridge Playwrighting Award) by Robin Cantwell, which will premiere in Manchester this summer.

Recent directing credits includes the first professional UK revival of Simon Stephens’ Pornography since 2009, The BBC’s First Homosexual as part of the BBC100 celebrations, and Sour Milk by Jonathan Mitchell

Credits

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Royal Exchange Den Festival, Royal Exchange Manchester, 2 Weeks, 2024

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Importance of Being Earnest, Royal Exchange Manchester, 6 Weeks, 2024

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, A Number, 53two Manchester, 3 Nights, 2024

SHADOWING DIRECTOR, Sweat, Royal Exchange Manchester, 5 Weeks, 2024

DIRECTOR, Love and Information, New Adelphi Theatre, 3 Shows, 2024

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, American Buffalo, The King's Arms Salford, 2 Weeks, 2024

DIRECTOR, SOUR MILK, The King's Arms Salford, 1 Week, 2023

DIRECTOR, Pornography, 53Two, 1 Week, 2023

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, BRICKS, 53Two, 2 Weeks, 2023

DIRECTOR, The BBC's First Homosexual, New Adelphi Theatre, 2 performances, 2022

DIRECTOR, Brick by Brick: Monologue Event, 53Two, 3 nights, 2022

DIRECTOR, Sea Wall, 5Two, 3 nights, 2022

DIRECTOR, The Outside Dog, 5Two, 3 nights, 2022

DIRECTOR, The Dumb Waiter, The King's Arms, 3 nights 2022

DIRECTOR, Sour Milk, GM Fringe, 3 nights, 2021

DIRECTOR, Road (R&D), New Adelphi Theatre, 1 performance, 2021

DIRECTOR & PERFORMANCE ARTIST, Crave, Digital Performance, 2021

Training

Royal Exchange Hodgkiss Award 2024

Young Vic: Fresh Directions cohort 2023/24

University of Salford: First Class Honours in Theatre and Performance Practice