Nick Starr
Nick Starr has been Executive Director of the National Theatre since 2002.
Nick Starr began work in the theatre as a volunteer for the Half Moon Theatre in the East End. After jobs in publicity with Cambridge Theatre Company, the Half Moon and in the West End, he joined the National Theatre press office in 1987. He became its Head of Planning in 1991.
In 1996 he became Director of Warwick Arts Centre, and the following year joined the Almeida as Executive Director, working alongside Jonathan Kent and Ian McDiarmid to broaden the company’s scope with touring, seasons in the West End, the Malvern Festival, the conversion of Gainsborough Studios for ‘Shakespeare in Shoreditch’. He left in February 2001 after securing the company in its temporary theatres in King Cross while the home theatre in Islington was refurbished.
Before joining the National, he ran a production company that commissioned and developed projects (‘Power’, and ‘Jerry Springer The Opera) and produced ‘The Lieutenant of Inishmore’ in the West End.
Nick is on the board of the Society of London Theatre. He is the chair of Battersea Arts Centre.