Eva Sampson

Eva Sampson trained on the National Theatre Studio Directors’ Course and at the University of Birmingham. Work as Director includes: The Little Gardener (Kew Gardens), The Last Nine Months (Vaults Festival), Sticky (Southwark Playhouse), The Tide (Young Vic), The Scarecrows’ Wedding (Watford Palace Theatre), A Peter Rabbit Tale (Singapore Repertory), Rudolf (Leeds Playhouse) and Decades (Ovalhouse). Work as Staff Director at The National Theatre includes: The Visit or The Old Lady Comes to Call and Downstate with Steppenwolf Theatre. Work as Associate and Assistant Director includes: Four Quartets with Ralph Fiennes (UK Tour), Olivier Award winning Noye’s Fludde (Theatre Royal Stratford East and ENO), Twelfth Night (Young Vic, Jerwood Assistant Director) and Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre).  Eva was Resident Assistant Director for Chichester Festival Theatre’s 2019 season: This is My Family and 8 Hotels. Digital Theatre work includes: Meet Mo, Ribena and Jack and the Beanstalk: A Pocket Pantomime (Theatre Royal Stratford East) and At the Statue of Venus (Royal Opera House). As Associate Director: Unprecedented (Headlong and Century Films), a major digital project broadcast on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer as part of BBC Arts’ Culture in Quarantine Season.  For TV/Radio: That’s How It Feels, REED TVC Campaign (MYNT and Kingdom Creative) and Keep the Home Fires Burning (The Culture Trust Luton).  Eva Sampson is the Co-Artistic Director of How It Ended theatre company and is an Associate Artist of National Youth Theatre.