Aspects of Practice -'Layered Behaviour: Translation, Creation, Adaption'with Katie Mitchell OBE

Join us on Wednesday 11 November (5th Week) for a talk and discussion with Q&A by theatre director Katie Mitchell OBE.

The event will be chaired by Wes Williams, theatre maker and academic.This event is part of 'Aspects of Practice', the public strand of the new University of Oxford Masters in Creative Translation. 'Aspects of Practice' is delivered in partnership with The Queen's College Translation Exchange.It is open to all and tickets are free.The event will be held in the Jarvis Doctorow Hall at St Edmund Hall at 5.30pm on Wednesday 11th November 2026.About Katie Mitchell OBEKatie Mitchell OBE is a British theatre director with a unique style and challenging, even uncompromising experimental methods.

Her productions have been innovative and groundbreaking, and have established her as one of Europe's leading artists in contemporary performance.She has directed over 100 productions in a career spanning 30 years.

She directs theatre, opera, and live cinema productions (a unique combination of video and theatre techniques), which she pioneered.

In the UK she has directed productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and The Royal Court - and she has been an Associate Director at all three organisations.

Her opera work includes productions for English National Opera, the Royal Opera House, The Staatsoper (Berlin) and Opera Comique (Paris).Since 2008 she has split her time between working in the UK and on mainland Europe in countries including Germany, France, Holland and Scandinavia.

She is currently a resident director at the Schaubuhne (Berlin), the Deutsches Schauspielhaus (Hamburg) and she had a seven-year residency at the Aix-en-Provence Festival (France).

Her many awards across Europe and beyond include a Tonic Award for her representations of woman and nurture of female talent (2018); this remains a focus in her work.

She has also pioneered work at the intersection between theatre, ecology, and the climate emergency since 2012.

She was presented with the Order of the British Empire (OBE) 2009 and the British Academy's President's Medal in 2017 for her services to theatre.

She is currently a Professor in Theatre Directing at Royal Holloway University where teaches on an MA directing course and she is also a Visiting Professor at Columbia University.Creative Translation Image (C) Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.