Tamsin Oglesby

Tamsin is currently under commission to The Old Vic and The Lighthouse film and tv productions. Her play Future Conditional opened Matthew Warchus’ season at the Old Vic Theatre to great acclaim. Her monologue Have you ever committed genocide? was performed for the Old Vic One Voice and the play Two Halves for the HeforShe campaign at the Vault Festival. Tamsin’s adaptation of Feydeau’s Every Last Trick was performed by Spymonkey at the Royal and Derngate Theatre, Northampton. Her adaptation of Russell Hoban’s The Mouse and His Child was a sell-out success at the RSC. The Imaginary Misogynist was commissioned by and performed at the Landestheater, Linz, Austria where it played for several seasons, as did her play Ephebiphobia.

Her other plays include Really Old, like Forty Five at the National Theatre (nominated for WOS Best Comedy Award and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), The War Next at the Tricycle (SS Blackburn nomination), Only the Lonely at the Birmingham Rep, Us and Them at Hampstead Theatre (nomination: WOS Award), Olive for the National Theatre (Connections), My Best Friend at Hampstead Theatre and Birmingham Rep (nomination: John Whiting Award) and Two Lips Indifferent Red at the Bush Theatre (nomination: SS Blackburn). Radio plays include: Hamlette, The English Lesson, A Tiny Problem, Different Planes, and Touching Lamposts.

Previously Tamsin has worked as a director at the Royal Court, National Theatre and with her own company, Hostage Productions. She was runner up for the BP Director’s Award and winner of the Fringe Awards. She recently directed Feydeau’s Flea In Her Ear at the Landestheatre, Linz where it remained in the Repertoire for several seasons, and a production of her own play The Imaginary Mysoginist at Guildhall school of music and drama. She is an associate at the Old Vic Theatre and a board member of the WGGB.