Webinar Replay: In Conversation with Yaël Farber

Yaël Farber

Yaël Farber is a multiple award-winning director and playwright of international acclaim. Her productions have toured extensively worldwide, earning her a reputation for hard-hitting, controversial works of the highest artistic standard.

Farber most recently directed KING LEAR to critical acclaim at The Almeida Theatre in London (2024). Other directing credits include:

• The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) at the Almeida Theatre, starring 4x Oscar-nominee Saiorse Ronan
• A revisioning of Hamlet starring Oscar and Tony-nominee Ruth Negga at The Gate Theatre, Dublin, and St. Anne's Warehouse in Brooklyn, NYC (2020)
• Lorraine Hansberry's unfinished final work, Les Blancs, reworked and directed for the National Theatre (2016) and in London to powerful critical acclaim
• Salomé (written and directed by Farber) for Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company (2015), which was nominated for 10 Helen Hayes Awards, and won 7, including Best Director and Best Play 2015, and transferred to the National Theatre in London (2017)
• Mies Julie (2012), a rewrite of Strindberg's Miss Julie which took the Edinburgh Festival by storm, won multiple international awards, and toured internationally for several years
• The Crucible (2014) for The Old Vic, which garnered ten 5-star reviews from the UK's top national press, and an Olivier-nomination for Best Revival

Her productions have toured across the major cities of the USA, the UK, Europe, Africa, Canada, Australia, Japan, Asia and the India, United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Hong Kong. She has been an invitee at the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab (NYC), a guest artist at Mabou Mines Theatre Company (NYC), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), The Public Theater (NYC) and the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab (Utah). Farber served as Head of the Directing Program at the National Theatre School of Canada between 2009 and 2012.