Robert Icke

Robert Icke, born in 1986 in Stockton-on-Tees, England, is an author, director, and theatre director. He became known for his radical reworkings of classic texts. 

After studying English at the University of Cambridge, he led the Arden Theatre Company, which he founded, from 2003 to 2007. From 2010 to 2013 he was Associate Director of the Headlong Theatre Company, and from 2013 Associate Director at the Almeida Theatre in London. Since 2019, Icke has worked as a freelancer and has directed productions at, among others, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the National Theatre in London, the Staatstheater Stuttgart, Theater Basel, the Burgtheater Vienna, as well as in London's West End and on Broadway in New York. 

Icke has received numerous awards for his work, including the Critics' Circle Theatre Award, the Evening Standard Theatre Award, the UK Theatre Award, and — as the youngest recipient to date — the Laurence Olivier Award. For his German adaptation of «Orestie» at the Schauspiel Stuttgart, he received the Kurt Hübner Directing Prize in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Among his best-known works are adaptations of «Hamlet», «Mary Stuart», «Oedipus», «1984» (co-written with Duncan Macmillan) and «Player Kings», which have been seen, among other venues, in London's West End. 

At the Residenztheater, Serbian director Miloš Lolić staged «Die Ärztin» by Robert Icke (after «Professor Bernhardi» by Arthur Schnitzler) in the 24/25 season. 

Following productions in Amsterdam, London, Athens and New York, Robert Icke directed the German-language premiere of «Ödipus» in Munich.