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VIK SIVALINGHAM

Vik is a London based freelance Theatre Director.

He has worked in theatres all over the UK including the Almeida, the Old Vic, the Royal Court, Tricycle Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Sheffield Crucible, the New Wolsey Theatre and Headlong Theatre. Vik was Resident Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company culminating in their Lincoln Centre Festival, NYC season in 2011.  He was also the Resident Director on Made in Dagenham- the Musical at the Adelphi Theatre (West End, London). Internationally, he has directed in New York, Amsterdam, Kuala Lumpur and Rio de Janiero.

Selected directing credits include The Tempest (Olympics, Rio de Janeiro 2016), Posh (LAMDA), Much Ado About Nothing (Brooklyn College), The Drunken City (The Tabard), Twelfth Night (Iris Theatre), Radio Serenade (Urban Lyrik, NY), Invisible Man (RSC at Park Avenue Armory), The Bullet (RSC at Hampstead Theatre), Blue/ Orange (The New Wolsey Theatre) and Home (The Last Refuge)

Vik is a graduate of the Arts Council/ Birkbeck, University of London MFA in Theatre Directing and also holds a PG Award in Teaching Shakespeare (RSC/ Warwick University). He is a much sought after Tutor and Workshop Leader working with actors in the UK and around the world.