Whit Hertford

Whit Hertford
Hertford in East London UK
Occupation	Theatre director, writer and actor

Whit Hertford is an American theatre director, writer and actor.

Artistic Director of the UK based theatre company, Riot Act. Recently served as an Associate Director at Theatre N16 in South London. He received his MFA in theatre directing from The University of Essex's East 15 and studied in Moscow at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS). Quickly established himself in the London fringe theatre as an efant terrible with a penchant for adapting and directing resuscitations / redefinitions of classic plays. Known for a style and approach based in European avant garde realism.

Recent directing credits include his radical adaptations of Chekhov's The Seagull and Ivanov, retitled, The Misbegotten Hope of the Dirty Bird (or A Meditation on the Proper Use of Firearms in Dramatic Literature)* and Poor Bastard (A Triumphant Guide to Midlife Crisis). Additionally, he directed the 2016 critically acclaimed contemporary production of Henrik Ibsen's The League of Youth (in only its third UK production since publication in 1870) and a London fringe sellout run of Coverage, a newsroom retelling of Julius Caesar - both by Canadian playwright Ashley Pearson. Other directing credits include the debuts of his original plays: Dóttir - a bleak tragedy that explores seven of Shakespeare's motherless daughter archetypes, Lunatic a nü gothic psychological thriller which focuses on the therapeutic sessions of Dr. Seward and Renfield from Bram Stoker's Dracula, Anatomy of Arithmetic, Bloke and Hero & Leander - adapted from Marlowe.

Whit has also directed at the Arcola Theatre and Southwark Playhouse in London. He served as an Associate Director at The Courtyard Theatre, in Hoxton East London where he was artistic director of Versions, a month long festival of classical adaptations and devised theatre in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare.

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