Bethany Pitts

Bethany recently directed Joe Orton's LOOT at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, and FAUSTUS: THAT DAMNED WOMAN at Arts Ed; and co-runs the Brighton-based new writing theatre company, Play On Theatre

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Bethany Pitts is an award winning director and dramaturg, specialising in new work with a focus on female driven stories and revisions of classical texts.

She trained on the National Theatre Studio Directors Course and as the Resident Assistant Director at Theatre Royal Plymouth and Theatre 503. She received an Arts Council DYCP grant in 2020 to upscale her practice, which led to developing an adaptation of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf with the writer Maud Dromgoole under the mentorship of Katie Mitchell. She is currently on the Old Vic Mentoring Scheme for Mid Career Directors where her mentor is Richard Jones.

This year she directed a mid scale revival of Loot by Joe Orton at Queen's Theatre Hornchurch. Previous notable credits include the Fringe First winning Spine by Clara Brennan (Soho Theatre / Francesca Moody Productions); the cross form Fuck You Pay Me by Joana Nastari (Edinburgh / Bunker Theatre) described by Elle Magazine as ‘taking the world by storm’ and the triple Offie Nominated UK premiere of A Funny Thing Happened by Halley Feiffer (Finborough theatre).

She also co-runs the Brighton based theatre company Play On Theatre, who currently have three new plays in development with Brighton Dome.  She is passionate about working with artists and writers from the very early stage of an idea through to full production, often working as dramaturg as well as director. She also regularly works at top drama schools, including Arts Ed and East 15, where she is dedicated to providing empowering and rigorous professional practice to actors in training.

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Represented by Gabrielle Dawes