Tamara Harvey

Tamara was born in Botswana and grew up in Birghton. She is a graduate of the University of Bristol and trained at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, USA. Most recently, she directed the premiere of Alistair McGowan’s Timing at the King’s Head Theatre in London, which was nominated for Best New Comedy in the 2009 Whatsonstage Awards. In 2009 she directed Alan Ayckbourn’s Bedroom Farce at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and the premiere of Resillience as part of Steve Water’s The Contingency Plan at the Bush Theatre, London.

Other theatre includes: Plague Over England (Finborough, 2008, nominated for Best Off-West End Production, Whatsonstage Awards and the subsequent West End production, 2009); Romeo and Juliet (Theatre of Memory at Middle Temple Hall); tHe dYsFUnCKshOnalZ! (Nominated for Best Off-West End Production, Whatsonstage Awards); Grand Slam, Who’s The Daddy? (King’s Head); Rock (tour); Touch Wood, Purvis, Storm In A Tea Chest, The Prodigal Son (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); Closer (Royal Theatre, Northampton); One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (UK tour); Bash (Trafalgar studios); An Hour And A Half Late (Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour); The Importance Of Being Earnest (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, USA); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Strageness Of Others, Odysseus (RADA); Sitting Pretty (Watford Palace); Romeo and Juliet, The Golden Ass (University of South Florida, USA); Markings (Southwark Playhouse/Traverse, Edinburgh); The Graduate (Uk tour); A Tempestade (Associate director, Teatro Sao Luiz, Portugal); Young Emma, Something Cloudy, Something Clear (Finborough); The Lion, The With And The Wardrobe (Maitisong, Botswana). In the West End, she has directed Whipping It Up (Olivier Award nominee, Best New Comedy, from the original production at the Bush by Terry Johnson) and co-directed One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (2005 and 2006).

Tamara was one of the directors of the 24 Hour Plays at The Old Vic in 2007 and 2008. She is an Artistic Associate for Theatre of Memory, co-director of the Factory’s Hamlet and a trustee of the Peggy Ramsay Foundation.