Bijan Sheibani
Bijan won the James Menzies-Kitchin Memorial Trust Award for Young Directors in 2003, for which he directed Harold Pinter's Party Time and One for the Road, and he won a Mark Marvin Rent Subsidy Award for his production of Edward Bond's Have I None in 2002. He was director on attachment at the National Theatre Studio and English Touring Theatre, supported by the John S Cohen Foundation from April 2004 until April 2005. Previous directing credits include Flush (Soho); Breath, Party Time, One for the Road, The Stoning (BAC); The Clink (Rose Theatre); Have I None (Southwark Playhouse); Summer (Lion and Unicorn); Nightwatchman (Oval Cricket Ground); Peace for our Time (Cockpit Theatre); Hystery (Embassy Theatre) and The Lover (Burton Taylor Theatre). Previous assistant directing credits include As You Like It (West End); A Dream Play (National Theatre); Terrorism (Royal Court); Twelfth Night (ETT) and Ryman and the Sheikh (Tamasha). He has also assisted on two operas: The Tempest by Thomas Ades (Copenhagen Opera House) and The IO Passion by Harrison Birtwistle (Almeida, Aldeburgh and European Tour).
