Vicky Featherstone was born on 5 April 1967 and is a theatre and artistic director.
17 Facts About Vicky Featherstone
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Vicky Featherstone was artistic director of the UK new writing touring theatre company Paines Plough from 1997, founding director of the National Theatre of Scotland in 2004, and the first female artistic director of London's Royal Court Theatre from 2013 until 2023.
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Vicky Featherstone was born in Redhill, Surrey on 5 April 1967, but moved to Scotland at 6 weeks old, where she lived in Clackmannanshire until the age of 7, when her father's work took her around the world.
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Vicky Featherstone's father is a chemical engineer and her mother a nurse.
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Vicky Featherstone studied drama at Manchester University, and soon discovered she favoured directing over acting.
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Vicky Featherstone did an MA in directing at the university, in association with Manchester's Contact Theatre.
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Vicky Featherstone's worked as assistant director at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1990 on Martin Crimp's No One Sees the Video.
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Vicky Featherstone gained a place on the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme, under which she spent two years from 1992 to 1994, first as assistant director and then associate director, based at West Yorkshire Playhouse, then under the artistic directorship of Jude Kelly.
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Vicky Featherstone then became resident director at the Octagon Theatre Bolton from 1994 to 1996 and worked at Northern Stage, then became Literary Associate for the Bush Theatre from 1996 to 1997.
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Whilst a script editor at United Productions, Vicky Featherstone conceived, after attending a friend's wedding in Yorkshire, with writer Ashley Pharoah, the series Where the Heart Is, revolving around the lives of district nurses in a close-knit Yorkshire community.
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Vicky Featherstone was involved in the development of the pathologist drama Silent Witness, first broadcast in 1996, for which she was credited as script editor for the first two episodes.
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Vicky Featherstone was artistic director of Paines Plough, a theatre company based in the UK that specialises in new plays and touring, from 1997 to 2004.
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Vicky Featherstone appointed writers Mark Ravenhill as literary manager and Sarah Kane as writer-in-residence, and developed an atmosphere seen as welcoming to writers.
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Vicky Featherstone's hiring of John Tiffany as associate director was considered a significant contribution to the company's success.
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On 2 November 2005, Vicky Featherstone unveiled the National Theatre of Scotland's inaugural programme to a packed audience at the Tramway in Glasgow, having announced it the previous day.
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From October 2024, Vicky Featherstone directed a production of Krapp's Last Tape for Landmark Productions, starring Stephen Rea as Krapp.
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Vicky Featherstone married Danny Brown, a TV scriptwriter and former stand-up comedian.