Jeremy Herrin is a Founding Director of Second Half Productions with Alan Stacey and Rob O'Rahilly.
13 Facts About Jeremy Herrin
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Jeremy Herrin was previously Artistic Director of the British touring theatre company; Headlong.
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Jeremy Herrin's hit production of James Graham's This House at the Royal National Theatre received a nomination for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play.
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Jeremy Herrin's breakthrough show was the critically successful That Face by Polly Stenham at the Royal Court Upstairs in 2007, which subsequently transferred to the West End in 2008.
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Jeremy Herrin became the deputy artistic director at the Royal Court Theatre to Dominic Cooke in 2009.
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Jeremy Herrin made his Shakespearean debut at the Globe Theatre in 2011, directing Eve Best in Much Ado About Nothing.
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Jeremy Herrin opened a well-received revival of Alan Ayckbourn's dark comedy Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter Theatre in 2012, produced by Sonia Friedman Productions.
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In 2013, Jeremy Herrin succeeded Rupert Goold as the artistic director of Headlong which he ran until 2020.
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Jeremy Herrin describes himself as the archetypal Royal Court Theatre director, putting the writer before the director:.
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Jeremy Herrin has expressed his belief that theatre has a role as a mirror to society.
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Jeremy Herrin believes theatre should engage with the political and social issues of the time.
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Jeremy Herrin was vocal about the impact of Brexit on British theatre, emphasizing the need for the arts to address the divided nature of the UK.
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Jeremy Herrin has been instrumental in the founding of Stage Directors UK, an organisation and trade union that aims to protect the interests of and create better terms and conditions for stage directors, choreographers and movement directors working in the UK.