Katherine Nesbitt

Katherine Nesbitt is a theatre director from Belfast, based in Glasgow. She was an Associate Director for National Theatre Connections and was an Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. She's an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors' Lab in New York and was a finalist for the JMK Award 2021 and the Sir Peter Hall Directors Award 2021. Directing credits include NORA: A DOLL'S HOUSE (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), ROOST (A Play, A Pie and Pint), THIS IS PARADISE (Traverse Theatre), EVERYMAN (Guildhall), STICKY CITY (CQAF), JADE CITY (Bunker Theatre). She was Associate Director on MOUTHPIECE by Kieran Hurley (Traverse, directed by Orla O'Loughlin). THE OPEN HOUSE by Will Eno (Bath Ustinov Studio, directed by Sir Michael Boyd), and THE FIFTH STEP by David Ireland (EIF and @SohoPlace directed by Finn Den Hertog). She was commissioned by the MAC Belfast, and was part of the Convergence screenwriters programme (Short Circuit/Screen Scotland) and the New Shorts Focus programme (Northern Ireland Screen). She directed 'THE PRESENT' by Stef Smith for BBC Arts Culture in Quarantine/National Theatre of Scotland in association with the Traverse Theatre, which was broadcast on BBC Scotland and iPlayer. She is a screenwriting graduate of the National Film and Television School. Her script 'THE MURDER HOLE' was shortlisted in the top 5% of entrants for the Channel 4 New Writers programme, and her short film script 'WILD SWIMMING' was a finalist in the screenwriting prize at Kerry International Film Festival. She is currently developing a verbatim play about declining birthrates in Scotland, and working on her debut TV pilot.