Tamara Harvey
Tamara is a graduate of the University of Bristol and trained at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, USA.
Theatre for the Bush includes: tHe dYsFUnCKshOnalZ! (nominated for Best Off-West End Production, Whatsonstage Awards).
Other theatre includes: Plague Over England (Finborough, nominated for Best Off-West End Production, Whatsonstage Awards and the subsequent West End production); Romeo and Juliet (Theatre of Memory at Middle Temple Hall); Grand Slam, Who's the Daddy? (King's Head); Rock (tour); Touch Wood, Purvis, Storm in a
Tea Chest, The Prodigal Son (Stephen Joseph); Closer (Theatre Royal, 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 Strangeness 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 Witch and the Wardrobe (Maitisong, Botswana); as co-director, Hamlet (The Factory). 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).
Forthcoming work includes: Bedroom Farce (West Yorkshire Playhouse). 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, and a Trustee of the Peggy Ramsay Foundation.