Clint Dyer
Clint was appointed as Deputy Artistic Director of the National Theatre in 2021. Clint directed the Olivier, Evening Standard, and What’sOnStage-nominated show THE BIG LIFE, at TRSE, bringing it to the Apollo Theatre, the first Black British musical to go the West End. He went on to write and direct SYLVIA PLATH, and direct the award-winning THE WESTBRIDGE at the Royal Court where he also wrote and performed in THE BIG IDEA – THE NEW ORDER. He directed Roy Williams’s hit play KINGSTON 14 at Theatre Royal Stratford-East, wrote STARTER MOTOR for the BBC’s Soon Gone Windrush Monologues and wrote and co-directed with Simon McBurney THE HAPPY TRAGEDY OF BEING WOKE for Complicite.
Clint reopened the National Theatre in 2020 with DEATH OF ENGLAND:DELROY, which he directed and co-wrote with Roy Williams, the sequel to the celebrated DEATH OF ENGLAND. He is directing the upcoming musical celebrating the life and music of Bob Marley, GET UP, STAND UP which opens at the Lyric Theatre in London’s West End in October 2021.
He starred on stage in the National Theatre’s Oliver-winning production of MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM, directed by Dominic Cooke, for which he won best actor in the I.A.R. Awards.
Over the course of his extensive acting career, Clint has featured across film, television and theatre.
Nina Steiger
Nina is Head of Play Development at the National Theatre.
Prior to this, she was Associate Director at Soho Theatre, where she commissioned and developed new playwrights and theatre-makers; before this, she worked as a writer and director in New York and in play development with companies such as NY Stage and Film and Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Outside of the NT, she has worked closely with Bryony Kimmings, Inua Ellams, Kim Noble, Rash Dash and others and is an Artistic Associate of the Lyric Hammersmith. In addition to her dramaturgical work with artists, she enjoys regular teaching work with some of London and the UK’s leading writing programmes and courses, working with students and young people to develop their own stories and creative voices. She has also consulted with organisations and brands on the role of narrative in creative strategy.
