Writer & Director

Neetu Singh is a writer and director from Hackney, East London.

As a director, she is interested in exploring human dynamics across new writing, classics and revivals. In her writing, she explores these themes through drama and comedy.

While an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, she founded Haldi, which, in 2022, became Tamasha Theatre’s youngest Associate Company. She is an alumnus of the Hackney Empire’s Artist Development Programme, the Mercury Theatre’s Directors Development Programme, the New Diorama’s The Knot and the Young Vic’s Fresh Direction Programme.

Recently, she returned as assistant director on Benedict Andrews’ The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse) for its transfer to St Ann’s Warehouse, New York. She directed Our Place (Lyric Hammersmith) and assistant directed Alice Birch’s Romans at the Almeida Theatre.

She is currently staff directing The Playboy of the Western World at the National Theatre.