★★★★ “The beats and rhythms of Bethany Pitts’s production are very
appealing.” Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard on A Funny Thing ... ★★★★ “a production by Bethany Pitts that reminds that we can change the world beginning with ourselves and our own community.” - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian on Spine ★★★★“Directed with an eye for the humour found in moments of bleakness by Bethany Pitts" The Independent on Brutal Cessation |
BETHANY PITTS - DirectorBethany Pitts is a theatre director specialising in new work, both scripted and devised. She was Assistant Director at Theatre Royal Plymouth from 2012–2013, working under Artistic Director Simon Stokes, and prior to that worked as Resident Assistant Director at Theatre 503.
Last autumn she directed the triple Offie nominated European premiere of Halley Feiffer’s A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Gynecologic Oncology Unit at the Finborough Theatre Directing credits include: Fuck You Pay Me by Joana Nastari (VAULT & Edinburgh Festivals) Brutal Cessation by Milly Thomas (Edinburgh 2017); Spine (Underbelly Edinburgh / Soho Theatre / UK Tour – Fringe First Winner 2014); Tether (Underbelly Edinburgh); Much Further Out Than You Thought (Underbelly, Edinburgh & UK Tour); FreeFall (Pleasance Islington – Nominated for Off West End Best Director); DESERT (National Tour / Latitude Festival). Assistant / Associate directing includes: Abi by Athia Sen Gupta (Derby Theatre / Queens' Theatre Hornchurch) Frogman by curious directive (Shoreditch Town Hall / Norwich Theatre Royal / UK Tour) Dark Vanilla Jungle by Philip Ridley (Soho / Pleasance - Fringe First winner 2013); Theatre Uncut (Traverse Theatre Fringe First Winner 2012 / Young Vic 2013). BETHANY's full cv is here. |
CURRENT PROJECTS include -
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Fuck You Pay Me by Joana Nastari returns to London at the Bunker 7th - 19th May as part of new Artistic Director Chris Sonnex's 'revolutionary' first season.
Featuring a live score and nightly special guests, Joana Nastari’s award-winning debut Fuck You Pay Me is a love letter to strippers and a surreal collision of comedy, poetry and live music exploring power, money and sisterhood. An evening of shameless entertainment, of divine feminine fury. A burial of preconceptions, a night of Sex-Witch Anarchy.
Reviews:
★★★★★ "Masterfully directed by Bethany Pitts... the show combines poetry, direct address, audience participation, and set-pieces... to truly immersive effect." -Everything Theatre ★★★★ "Pitts' show is the last in a line of cracking work at The Bunker... an unbelievable place to grow from." -The Reviews Hub "Joana Nastari and her director, Bethany Pitts, have created an intricate, intimate, and really quite special piece of theatre..." -Victoria Sadler |
PAST PROJECTS include -
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Song at Twilight
World famous author Sir Hugo Latymer is growing old, rude and haughty. In the private suite of a lakeside hotel where he lives, he is attended to by his long-suffering wife and former secretary, Hilde, and Felix, a handsome young waiter. Here he nervously awaits the arrival of an old flame, actress Carlotta Gray, with whom he enjoyed a two year love affair more than forty years ago. What can she possibly want now? Revenge for his uncharitable characterisation of her in his recent autobiography? Money, to compensate for a second-rate acting career in the States? But it turns out Carlotta is writing her own memoir, and wants something much more significant than cash… |
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Three Billion Seconds by Maud Dromgoole (listed in WhatsonStage's picks of VAULT festival and being published in the VAULT anthology by Nick Hern books)
6th - 10th March When it comes to the 3 F words. Food. Fuel. And Freshwater. We are fucked. Fucked. And fucked. And we are getting more fucked, the more fucking, people are doing." |
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Population Matters activists Daisy and Michael want to save the world. And all they want you to do is not have a baby. Do you know that a baby born in Britain today will live an estimated 3 billion seconds? And be responsible for 160 times the greenhouse gas emissions as a baby born in Ethiopia?
They do. Daisy and Michael know a lot of things about population. But now they are pregnant. And they don't know what to do. How can you offset 3 billion seconds of life?
They do. Daisy and Michael know a lot of things about population. But now they are pregnant. And they don't know what to do. How can you offset 3 billion seconds of life?
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Gynecologic Oncology Unit wins three Offie nominations
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A European première at the Finborough Theatre from acclaimed American playwright Halley Feiffer, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City received its critically acclaimed world premiere Off-Broadway in 2016 at the MCC Theater at Lucille Lortel Theatre before its West Coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse.
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Awards/ Nominations
Free Fall, 2014 - Nominated for Off West End Best Director
Spine, 2014 - Fringe First, Herald Angel and Stage Award 2014
Much Further Out Than You Thought, 2015 - IdeasTap/ Underbelly Award Winner
Spine, 2014 - Fringe First, Herald Angel and Stage Award 2014
Much Further Out Than You Thought, 2015 - IdeasTap/ Underbelly Award Winner
