Rufus Norris

Rufus Norris

Work

Director
Broken
Feature
2012
Cuba Pictures for BBC Films
Producer Dixie Linder, Nick Marston and Tally Garner Director Rufus Norris Writer Mark O'Rowe Starring Robert Emms, Rory Kinnear, Cillian Murphy, Bill Milner & Tim Roth

Rufus' debut feature

King Bastard
Short
2009
Working Title/BNBC Films for UKFC
Producer Dixie Linder Director Rufus Norris Writer Tanya Ronder Starring Peter Mullan

Short film about a young girl's grief for her grandfather

Director
Feast
2013
Young Vic
Director Rufus Norris Writer Yunior García Aguilera, Rotimi Babatunde, Marcos Barbosa, Tanya Barfield & Gbolahan Obisesan

Production celebrating Yoruba culture through story, live music and choreography

Table
2013
Shed, National Theatre
Director Rufus Norris Writer Tanya Ronder Starring Daniel Cerqueira, Rosalie Craig, Jonathan Cullen, Paul Hilton & Penny Layden

Inaugural play in the National Theatre's Shed, following one family across 200 years

Cabaret
2012
Savoy Theatre
Producer Bill Kenwright Director Rufus Norris Starring Michelle Ryan & Will Young

Musical sensation

Doctor Dee
2011
Palace Theatre
Creator Rufus Norris and Damon Albarn Director Rufus Norris Writer Damon Albarn

A new work composed by Damon Albarn and directed by Rufus Norris.

London Road
2011
National Theatre, Cottesloe
Director Rufus Norris Writer Alecky Blythe Starring Rosalie Craig, Kate Fleetwood, Nick Holder, Claire Moore & Michael Shaeffer

Lyrical drama about the Ipswich murders

Vernon God Little
2011
Young Vic Theatre
Director Rufus Norris Writer Tanya Ronder Starring Luke Brady, Clare Burt, Peter Drake, Johnnie Fiori & Peter De Jersey

Revival of Rufus' 2007 production of Tanya Ronder's adaptation of the Booker prize winning novel

Don Giovanni
2010
ENO
Director Rufus Norris Writer Mozart Starring Katherine Broderick, Rebecca Evans, Iain Patterson, Brindley Sherratt & Sarah Tynan

Rufus' operatic debut of Mozart's darkly seductive tale

The Country Girl
2010
Theatre Royal, Windsor
Producer Bill Kenwright Director Rufus Norris Writer Clifford Odet Starring Jenny Seagrove & Martin Shaw

Number One tour and West End run of Clifford Odet's play

Death and the King's Horseman
2009
National Theatre, Lyttleton
Producer National Thaetre Director Rufus Norris Writer Wole Soyinka Starring Nonso Anozie

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
2008
Roundhouse Theatre
Director Rufus Norris Writer Christopher Hampton Starring Laura Linney & Ben Daniels

Adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' novel of the same name

Vernon God Little
2007
Young Vic
Producer Cuba Pictures and Young Vic Theatre Director Rufus Norris Writer Tanya Ronder Starring Mark Lockyer, Colin Morgan & Mariah Gale

Adaptation of the Booker Prize winning debut novel written by DBC Pierre

Cabaret
2006
Lyric Theatre
Director Rufus Norris Starring James Dreyfus, Sheila Hancock & Anna Maxwell Martin

Market Boy
2006
National Theatre, Olivier
Director Rufus Norris Writer David Eldridge Starring Paul Anderson, Nicola Blackwell & Jonathan Cullen

Waking Beauty
2005
Arts Threshold
Producer Wink Productions Director Rufus Norris

Play by Deirdre Strath for Arts Threshold

Blood Wedding
2004
Almeida
Director Rufus Norris Writer Tanya Ronder Starring Gabriel Garcia Bernal

Festen
2004
Almeida
Director Rufus Norris Writer David Eldridge Starring Jonny Lee Miller & Tom Hardy

New stage version of the Danish arthouse film

Dirty Butterfly
2003
Soho Theatre
Director Rufus Norris Writer Debbie Tucker Green

Peribàñez
2003
The Young Vic
Director Rufus Norris Writer Tanya Ronder

Lope de Vega's play

Small Change
2002
Sheffield Crucible
Director Rufus Norris Writer Peter Gill

Tall Stories
2002
Battersea Arts Centre
Director Rufus Norris Starring The Shout

A staged song-cycle written by Orlando Gough and Richard Chew, and performed by The Shout

The Lizzie Play
2002
Arts Threshold
Producer Wink Productions Director Rufus Norris Writer Deirdre Strath

The Tempest
2002
Arts Threshold
Director Rufus Norris Writer William Shakespeare

Afore Night Come
2001
Young Vic
Producer Young Vic Director Rufus Norris Writer David Rudkin Starring Christopher Brand, Edward Clayton, Tim Harris & Zoe Dawson

David Rudkin's first play

Mish Alla Ruman
2001
Al Kasaba, Ramallah
Director Rufus Norris Writer David Greig

Sea Tongue
2001
Huddersfield Contemporary Festival
Director Rufus Norris Writer Gough/Chew

Shawna and Ron's Half Moon
2001
ENO
Producer ENO baylis Director Rufus Norris Writer Eva Salzman

While I Was Waiting
2001
Battersea Arts Centre
Producer Wink Productions Director Rufus Norris Writer Orlando Gough

Workers Writes
2001
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
Director Rufus Norris

My Dad's Cornershop
2000
Birmingham Rep
Director Rufus Norris Writer Ray Grewal

Two Women
2000
Soho Theatre
Director Rufus Norris Writer Debbie Green

Under the Blue Sky
2000
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
Director Rufus Norris Writer David Eldridge

Pierrot
1999
ENO
Director Rufus Norris Writer Orlando Gough

Small Craft Warnings
1999
Pleasance, London
Director Rufus Norris Writer Tennessee Williams

About the Boy
1998
Royal Court Theatre, Upstairs
Director Rufus Norris Writer Ed Hime

Clubbed Out
1998
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
Director Rufus Norris Writer Ezra Elia

For the Class Festival

The Measles
1998
Gate Theatre
Director Rufus Norris Writer Ivan Vidic

The People Downstairs
1997
Young Vic Studio
Producer Wink Productions Director Rufus Norris Writer Deirdre Strath

Where the Devils Dwell
1997
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
Producer YPT Director Rufus Norris Writer Rhiannon Tise

The Art of Random Whistling
1996
Young Vic Studio
Producer Wink Productions Director Rufus Norris Writer Mark Jenkinson

Rosa Carnivora
1994
Theatr Clywd
Producer Wink Productions Director Rufus Norris Writer Deirdre Strath

Things Curious
1993
Battersea Arts Centre
Director Rufus Norris Writer Louise Warren

Writer and Director
Tin Tin
2005
Barbican
Producer BITE:05 and Barbican Director Rufus Norris Writer Rufus Norris Starring Russell Tovey

The first major UK stage adaptation of Hergé's legendary cartoon hero

Sleeping Beauty
2002
Young Vic
Director Rufus Norris Writer Rufus Norris Starring Helena Lymbery

Written and directed by Rufus for the Young Vic and transferred to the Babrican in 2004

Strike Gently
1999
Young Vic Studio
Producer Wink Productions Director Rufus Norris Writer Rufus Norris

Co-written with K Lindsay