Rebecca Atkinson-Lord is a British theater and film director and writer.
She grew up in Wolverhampton and was a scholarship pupil at St Dominic's High School for Girls in Brewood, Staffordshire. She read ancient history at the University of Bristol.[1] before training as a theater director at RADA.[2]
In 2008 she founded Arch 468, a theatre production and development hub in Brixton.[3] [4]
In 2010 she was appointed co Director of Theatre at Ovalhouse in London[5]
In 2012 she was nominated for the Off-West End Award for Best Director[6] for her production of Cuddles by Joseph Wilde at Ovalhouse. The production subsequently toured the UK before transferring to 59E59 Theatres in Manhattan in 2015[7] where it was awarded a New York Times Critic's Pick[8] and named as one of the best theater shows of 2015 by the New York Times.[9] In May 2016 Nicole Kidman and her production company Blossom Films announced that she had optioned the rights to "Cuddles" and that Wilde would be adapting the play for screen.[10]
Since February 2015, she has been a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper's online theatre blog[11] and has written extensively on theatre and arts politics issues for both The Guardian and The Stage newspapers.
In November 2015 Atkinson-Lord and her co-director Rachel Briscoe announced that they were stepping down from Ovalhouse to concentrate on individual projects.[12]
In September 2017, Atkinson-Lord's first film, "Domesticity", written by Chisa Hutchinson, won the award for Best Micro Drama at London's Discover.film Festival.[13]
In May 2021 Atkinson-Lord was appointed Artistic Director and Chief Executive of An Tobar & Mull Theatre on the Isle of Mull in the Scottish Hebridies.[14]