ADAM MEGGIDO
Writer / Theatre Director
Adam is a writer, director and expert in improvisation. He is the Artistic Director of Extempore
Theatre (www.extemporetheatre.com) a company dedicated to new writing, innovation and
improvisation. He is also Head of Foundation at LAMDA, an Associate Director of the National
Youth Theatre and holds the world record for directing long-form improvisation – 55 hours in
Toronto.
THEATRE:
2014
PETER PAN GOES WRONG
Kenny Wax and Mischief Theatre
Pleasance Theatre
UK Tour (2014 - 15)
Apollo Theatre, West End (2015)
2014-15
THE SOCIETY OF STRANGE
Theatre 503 residency
Rome, Oslo, Edmonton
Edinburgh Festival (2015)
2015
RHAPSODES
Edinburgh Festival
2012
BURLESQUE
(Also composer and co-writer book/lyrics)
Danielle Tarento and The Sticking Place
Jermyn Street Theatre
Winner of four Off West End
Theatre Awards 2012 including
Best New Musical
2009-14
THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT
Olivier, National Theatre
Royal Court
Globe Theatre
Soho Theatre
Gilded Balloon
Latitude Festival
UK tours
BBC Radio 3
Winner of Spirit of the Fringe
Award 2012
2008-2015 SHOWSTOPPER! THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL
King’s Head Theatre (2008-10)
The Drill Hall Theatre (2009-10)
BBC Radio 4 series (2010)
Leicester Square Theatre (2009 and
2013)
Ambassadors Theatre (2011)
Criterion Theatre (2012)
Apollo Theatre, West End (2015)
Edinburgh Festivals
UK tours (over 6 years)
Tours in Ireland, Denmark, Norway,
Canada, China, Austria, India and
Singapore
Winner of Spirit of the Fringe
Award 2009 and Nominated for
Best Music Or Variety Act Chortle
Award 2011, Best Production MTM
Awards 2009, Judges’ Discretionary
Award at the MTM Awards 2009
and Total Theatre Award 2008 and
2009
2008-15
THE LONDON 50-HOUR IMPROVATHON
People Show Studios (2008 -2009)
Hoxton Hall (2010 -2013)
Park Theatre (2014)
Lost Theatre (2015)
2010-13
THE 53-HOUR SOAPATHON
Varscona Theatre, Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada
2004-12
THE TERROR SEASONS
Plays include: The Better Half
(Noel Coward)
Reanimator (William Ewart)
Psychogeography (Lucy Kirkwood)
The Disappearance (adapt. Daragh Carville)
Ripper (Mark Ravenhill)
The Premature Burial (Edgar Allan Poe)
My Favourite Murder (Ambrose Bierce)
In Pursuit Of Cardenio (with Ken Campbell)
Union Theatre, Southwark
Southwark Playhouse (2009)
Soho Theatre (2011)
Udderbelly (2006)
Nominated for Peter Brook
Empty Space Award 2007
and Best Entertainment at
Off West End Theatre Awards
2006
ROBIN HOOD
Creation Theatre, Oxford
2005
SHALL WE SHOG?
with Ken Campbell
Globe Theatre
2005
CHAOS OF DELIGHT
(writer/director)
Soho Theatre
2005
ORCHESTRA!
National Youth Theatre
2004
TEENAGER IN LOVE
National Youth Theatre
2004
AS YOU LIKE IT
Greenwich Park, Natural
Perspectives Company
2003
DARK MEANING MOUSE
Finborough Theatre
2003
THE END OF THE SENTENCE
Finborough Theatre
2003
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Greenwich Park, Natural
Perspectives Company
South (Vayu Naidu Company)
UK tour (2002)
OTHER APPOINTMENTS:
2007-present Head of Foundation at LAMDA
Directing credits include: Twelfth Night, The Wonderful World Of Dissocia,
Women Beware Women, 4:48 Psychosis, Three Sisters, Macbeth, The
Tempest, Edmond, Pale Horse, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The War Of The
Roses, Romeo and Juliet, Pornography, Motortown, The Hop Garden, Devil In
The Detail, Resurrection
2006-present Associate Director of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain
2011-present Artistic Director of Extempore Theatre
2003
US Revisited
Public screening and debate with Peter Brook/Glenda Jackson
1999-2001 Literary Manager for Goldhawk Universal
Productions include: Hotel Europa (BBC Radio 4), The Bone Trade (BAFTA nominated
short film) and The Lie (Sticking Place Theatre)
1995-99
Co-Artistic Director of Counterpoint Theatre Company, London
Projects include: development with Willis Hall on the first updated and uncensored
version of The Long And The Short And The Tall (Albery, West End), The Greenhouse
Effect (Riverside Studios, London), Punch Junkies (Scotsman’s Critics’ Choice,
Edinburgh), cult musical hit Saucy Jack And The Space Vixens (Edinburgh, Queens
Theatre West End and UK tour, National Theatre at The Albany, The Venue) The
Streets Of Dublin (Brixton Shaw and UK tour) and Stand-Up (Old Red Lion)