Naeem Hayat

Naeem’s directing work includes, as Co-Director: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (co-production with Headlong, 2025-6), The Comedy of Errors (2024), Burnt at the Stake (2023); as Associate Director: Much Ado About Nothing (2024), The Comedy of Errors (2023), Macbeth (2023), Henry V (co-production with Headlong, 2022); as Assistant Director: King Lear (2022), The Tempest (2022) – all for Shakespeare’s Globe.

Acting credits in theatre include: Nora: A Doll’s House (Royal Exchange); The Girl on the Train (UK Tour); The Village (Theatre Royal Stratford East); and Sonnet Walks – Shakespeare in the Abbey, The Captive Queen, Globe to Globe: Hamlet World Tour (all Shakespeare’s Globe). Film credits include: Duperie, and Undercliffe.

He is an Associate Artist for Pentabus Theatre, and was Resident Associate Director at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2023.