Contact

Email: juliaannalevai@gmail.com

Júlia Levai - Theatre director

Júlia is a theatre director from Budapest based in London.

Upcoming: Staff Director at the National Theatre & Co-creator of Vanishing collaborating with Tingying Dong & Blythe Brett.

Recent Staff directing work: Dear Octopus @National Theatre

Recent Directing work: ‘Not Really Now Not Any More’ by Stella Green (New Diorama, reading, 2023), ‘We’ll Be Who We Are’ by Naomi Obeng @VAULT Festival 2023, SMOKE @Southwark Playhouse February 2023.

In 2022 she worked as Assistant Director at the RSC assisting Blanche McIntyre on All’s Well That Ends Well. She also received a micro-commission from Projekt Europa & the Rose Theatre as part of Projekt Elevate (https://www.projekteuropa.org/elevate).

Júlia was an MGCFutures Bursary recipients in 2021, and was ‘Director in Residence’ at the National Theatre in Serbia supported by the European Theatre Convention & Creative Europe (2021). She was also part of the Royal Court’s first directors group (2021).

She trained on the LAMDA’s MA Directing course and on the Young Vic Theatre’s Jerwood Assistant Director Program.

She also works as a script reader for the NT Studio, Royal Court’s ‘Living Archive’, ‘Papatango Prize’, ‘Bruntwood Prize’, and for Paines Plough’s ‘Women’s Prize For Playwriting’.