ABOUT

Júlia Levai is a theatre director & dramaturg from Budapest based in London. She recently trained on the National Theatre Studio’s Directors Course and was Staff Director on Coriolanus and Dear Octopus at the National Theatre.

She is interested in creating new work via collaborative processes and directing radical reworkings of classics.

Júlia co-directed the London premiere of Smoke at Southwark Playhouse with Polina Kalinina. She was the director of Naomi Obeng’s absurdist new play We’ll Be Who We Are which had its previews at the VAULT Festival in 2023. She is next working on a new play and a radical adaptation both premiering in 2025. 

Júlia has previously worked as assistant/associate/staff director at theatres such as the National Theatre, RSC, Royal Court, and the Young Vic. She previously received an MGCFutures bursary, and was ‘Director in Residence’ at the National Theatre in Belgrade supported by the European Theatre Convention & Creative Europe. 

She trained on LAMDA’s MA Directing course, the Royal Court’s inaugural Directors Group, and the Young Vic’s Jerwood Assistant Director Program.

She is a script reader for the NT Studio, Papatango Prize, Bruntwood Prize, and for Paines Plough’s Women’s Prize For Playwriting.