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The Amplify Podcast is a new strand in our Playcast series. \\xa0

Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown. \\xa0

These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing.\\xa0


On this Episode Craig talks with Jeremy Herrin, Artistic Director of Headlong. \\xa0

Jeremy studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He trained at both the National Theatre and Royal Court, where he became Deputy Artistic Director in 2009 until 2012.

Between 2000 and 2008 he was Associate Director at Live Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Jeremy has most recently directed Labour of Love (No\\xebl Coward Theatre), People, Places and Things (NT/West End/UK Tour/NewYork), The House The Grew Up In (Chichester Festival Theatre), Common (National Theatre), This House (West End), Junkyard (Bristol Old Vic/Theatr Clwyd/Rose Theatre Kingston), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (UK Tour), The Absence of War (UK Tour) and The Nether (Royal Court / West End) for Headlong, and also the world premiere of Hilary Mantel\\u2019s Man Booker prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies in two parts for the RSC, which transferred to the West End in May 2014 and Broadway in March 2015 and for which he was nominated for an Olivier and Tony Award for Best Director.

Jeremy has directed several productions at the Royal Court including That Face by Polly Stenham, which transferred to the Duke of York\\u2019s Theatre in the West End. He was nominated for an Evening Standard Best Director Award for Stenham\\u2019s second play Tusk Tusk in 2009. Other work at the Court includes Stenham\\u2019s No Quarter, E V Crowe\\u2019s Hero and Kin, Richard Bean\\u2019s The Heretic, Michael Wynne\\u2019s The Priory, which won an Olivier award for Best Comedy and David Hare\\u2019s The Vertical Hour.

Other theatre directing credits include The Plough and the Stars (NT, co-directed with Howard Davies), Noises Off (American Airlines Theatre, Broadway) \\xa0The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead Theatre),Another Country (Chichester/West End), the critically acclaimed This House by James Graham at the National Theatre, for which he was nominated for an Olivier award for Best Director, The Tempest at the Globe, David Hare\\u2019s South Downs at Chichester Festival Theatre subsequently transferring to the Harold Pinter Theatre, Uncle Vanya with Roger Allam at Chichester, Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter and Much Ado About Nothing with Eve Best and Charles Edwards at the Globe.

Jeremy was also named as one of the Stage top 100 in 2014.