ABOUT

Júlia Levai is a theatre director & dramaturg from Budapest based in London. Her work combines British theatre practices with a European theatrical sensibility. She recently directed the critically acclaimed premiere of Nancy Netherwood’s new play, Radiant Boy at Southwark Playhouse. Her production of Petty Men (after Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar) won the European Shakespeare Festival Network’s 2026 Award and will be touring across Europe in 2026.

Júlia regularly works at the National Theatre as Staff Director (Land of the Living, Coriolanus, Dear Octopus), Script Reader and Mentor Director for NT Connections. In 2024, she trained on the NT Studio’s Directors Course.

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.