Naeem Hayat trained at RADA.

Theatre credits include: The Girl On The Train (UK Tour);  Nora: A Dolls House (Royal Exchange Theatre); The Village (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Sonnet Walks, Shakespeare Within The Abbey, The Captive Queen, Globe to Globe world tour of Hamlet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Faster-Higher-Stronger-Straighter (Dominion Studio).

Film credits include: Duperie; Undercliffe.

Naeem was Resident Associate Director for Shakespeare’s Globe 2023.  As Co-Director – The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare’s Globe). as Director - SEEN (Pentabus); Burnt at the Stake (Shakespeare’s Globe). As Globe Associate Director; King Lear (directed by Helena Kaut Howson); The Tempest (co-directed by Sean Holmes and Diane Page); Henry V (directed by Holly Race Roughan); The Comedy of Errors and Much Ado About Nothing (directed by Sean Holmes).