The Young Vic Theatre has announced the appointment of NADIA FALL as its new Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive, effective from January 2025. She succeeds KWAME KWEI-ARMAH who will step down in September after more than six years in the role.
Fall will lead the organisation together with Executive Director LUCY DAVIES who also becomes Joint Chief Executive.
Currently, Fall is Artistic Director of Stratford East where she has served since 2017. Previously from 2015-18, she wasAssociate at the National Theatre. Her debut feature film Brides was chosen for the Great8 platform of British films at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Commenting on her appointment, Fall said: “The Young Vic was first built as a pop-up theatre for a younger, bolder generation of artists and audiences. Today it is a celebrated cornerstone of London theatre but that mischievous spirit of a makeshift, anti-establishment theatre still courses through its veins, and I find that incredibly compelling.
“I was born in Southwark and raised in and around the borough as well as the Middle East, to South Asian parents, and I love that the Young Vic holds hands with its local community of Southwark and Lambeth whilst looking out towards the rest of the world through its artists and stories. It’s exactly who we are in London - both local and international."
GLENN EARLE, Chair of the Board, said: “Nadia has a proven and long-standing record not only of theatre leadership, but also of significant artistic success, at the National Theatre, at Stratford East and as a freelance director. Critically, Nadia also shares our core Young Vic values of commitment to community and to broadening access to theatre and creative education.
Kwei-Armah added: “I congratulate Nadia and the Young Vic. Nadia will get to work with some of the most dedicated and skilled theatre people in our sector, and they will get to work with a fearless artistic leader.”