About

Connie Treves is a director, dramaturg and movement director who grew up in Dorset and is now based in London. She is interested in work which gives us new openings of seeing and being in the world, combining text based practices with her background in movement. Most recently, she was Revival Director on the National Theatre tour of James Graham’s award-winning Dear England. In 2017, she won the rights to direct the first adaptation of award-winning novelist Rene Denfeld’s The Enchanted, a story about the criminal justice system in the US which transferred from Edinburgh to the Bunker Theatre in London.

She is an associate artist with award-winning Good Chance Theatre (The Jungle, Walk with Amal) where between 2020-2024 she worked directly with the artistic leaderships team as a dramaturg, director and facilitator, developing award-winning productions such as The Walk, Kyoto and From Here On (co-production with Gecko).

She works regularly as a director with Mountview Academy of Arts, most recently directing Her Naked Skin by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. As an assistant, associate and staff director, she has worked with venues such as the National Theatre, the Almeida, the Globe and Sheffield Theatres. Between 2019-2020, she was the Resident Assistant Director at Sheffield Theatres, assisting director Rob Hastie on multiple productions.

Connie has worked extensively in participatory theatre and in 2018 she was the Resident Director in Good Chance’s dome in Paris, where she directed weekly shows with international theatre-makers and local communities. Since 2019, she has been artistic director of Change the Word - a national participatory project, which brings together leading artists and local communities to create and perform together, reimagining and shaping the towns, cities and world in which they want to live.

As a director with young people, she has worked with organisations such as the Big House, Compass Collective, the National Theatre, the Almeida, Sheffield Theatres, the National Theatre of Scotland and the Citizen’s Theatre.

She trained on the MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck and currently holds a DYCP grant to focus on adapting novels for the stage and re-imagining classics. 

Press

‘Connie Treves’s confident, clear direction allows the material to connect directly to the audience…with a deep sense of grace it spins a delicate web of collective responsibility from which it is impossible to escape’‍ ‍

SALLY HAYLES, EXEUNT on THE ENCHANTED

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