Oscar Toeman
Director DramaturgHe/him
Oscar trained on the Young Vic's Springboard Program, the Barbican Pit lab workshops with Thomas Ostermeier and Ivo van Hove, the NT Studio Directors Course, and the Lincoln Centre Theatre Lab.
He was runner up for the JMK Award 2019, and a finalist for the Peter Hall RTST Award 2018 and 2023. He received an MGC Futures Bursary in 2017. In 2023 he participated on the Hollyoaks from Stage to Screen Programme, designed to train up theatre directors for the screen.
He will begin a new role as the Baylis Director at the Old Vic in 2024.
He regularly works as a guest director at RWCMD, Guildhall, RCSSD, East 15 and Arts Ed; and is an Associate Artist at National Youth Theatre.
Credits
Recent direction includes:The Misfortune of the English by Pamela Carter, Orange Tree Theatre, 5 weeks, 2022.
The Sugar Syndrome by Lucy Prebble, Orange Tree Theatre, 5 weeks, 2020.
Actually by Anna Ziegler, Trafalgar Studios, 4 weeks, 2019.
After October by Rodney Ackland, Finborough Theatre, 5 weeks 2016.
As Associate/ Assistant:
Oslo by J.T Rogers, National Theatre and West End, 2017
Waste by Harley Granville Barker, National Theatre, 2015-16
The Merchant of Venice, RSC, 2015
Training
NT Studio Directors CourseLincoln Centre Directors Lab
Barbican Pit Labs with Thomas Ostermeier and Ivo von Hove
Springboard, Young Vic
Location
LondonExperience
10+ years
Art forms / Disciplines
- Comedy
- Film - feature
- Film - short
- Gaming and interactivity
- Radio/Audio
- Theatre / Live perfomance
- TV - documentary
- TV - drama
What I do
- Dramaturgy
- Languages
- Theatre making
- Working with young people
- Workshopping & Development
- Writing
Additional Languages
German(basic)
