About
Blythe believes in work that is subversive, sophisticated, frank and joyful. She stages new stories which share how social, personal and political upheavals impact our everyday lives.
This year...
Associate Director, 101 Dalmatians, Runaway Entertainment / UK Tour Associate, Minority Report, Nottingham Playhouse / Lyric Hammersmith Associate, Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible is Going to Happen
Francesca Moody Productions / The Bush Theatre
Director, How to Hold Your Breath, LAMDA
Before that...
Associate Director, The Crucible, West End Transfer, Gielgud Theatre
Director
Teenage Dick, Schools Tour for Donmar Warehouse
Jude Starbeam, a film for On the Button Productions
Work Bitch by Jessica Siân, for VAULT Festival
Finding Fassbender by Lydia Larson, at Edinburgh Fringe
Skin A Cat by Isley Lynn, UK Tour
Resident Director at the Donmar Warehouse
The Crucible at The National Theatre
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
UK & Ireland Tour, for National Theatre Productions
Favourite things at the moment...
Hunting out poems. Love a Mary Oliver verse
Relearning how to swim
Olivia Dean, Maggie Rogers, Sammy Rae and Friends' albums
Scene on Radio Podcasts
Reading those books on my shelf I've been starring at:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt, My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier, Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
Telly: Reservation Dogs, The Bear, Alma's Not Normal, Giri/Haji, Unorthodox, Succession, Derry Girls, The Traitors
Plays: Angels in America, We Are Proud to Present, Eurydice, John, View from a Bridge, Far Away, The Welkin, Macbeth, Cabaret, Passion