Yvonne McDevitt

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Yvonne McDevitt read Drama at Trinity College Dublin (1989-93). Since then she has worked as a Dramaturg for Robert Wilson at the Opera Bastille and Odeon Theatre in Paris (1994). Her (1995) Dublin Theatre Festival productions of Not I and Rockaby by Samuel Beckett were invited to the Hermitage Theatre in Moscow in 1996.

She was awarded the Channel Four Young Directors Award (1998), and went on to work as an Assistant and Associate Director at the Traverse and Royal Court Theatres (1998 – 2001). 

Her productions include: Acts by Riccardo Galgani (Traverse Theatre, 1998); Karate Billy Comes Home by Klaus Pohl (Auden Theatre, Norwich, 2000); A Doll's House (National Theatre Norway, 2000); The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh (Salisbury Playhouse, 2001); Parfois il Arrive des Chose D’etrange by Paul Godfrey (Panta Theatre, Normandy, 2003); Marching Song by John Whiting (Royal National Theatre Studio, 2003); Exiles by James Joyce and On War: 26 Directors Respond to War (Young Vic Theatre, 2002 & 2003); and Brussels Manifesto (Espace Theatral Scarabaeus, Brussels, 2005).

Current projects include: Miss Shazia (three short films based on Miss Julie by August Strindberg starring Shazia Mirza); The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Copies (A Number) by Caryl Churchill; The Terrible Voices of Satan by Gregory Motton; Eleutheria by Samuel Beckett.

She was awarded the Jerwood Young Directors Award in 2002. She has just been awarded the Robert David Macdonald Directors Award for 2006.