Lizzie Manwaring
Lizzie Manwaring is a British/American director who grew up in Germany, and is now based in London. She received her MFA in Theatre Directing from Birkbeck, with distinction. Between 2018-2020, she was the Resident Assistant Director at Hampstead Theatre. In 2019, she was part of the team who was awarded the Pleasance's Charlie Hartill Reserve, for «Bible John.» Lizzie was Associate Director to Robert Icke on «Player Kings» (West End) and «Oedipus» (West End). She then Revival Directed «Oedipus» at Onassis Stegi in Athens which ran between 2025-2026. Lizzie has worked extensively across the UK including in the West End, at the Almeida Theatre and at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Productions
Oedipus, the lead candidate of a new political movement, is as good as assured of election victory. But why are the circumstances of his predecessor’s fatal road traffic accident classified? And what is the fake news regarding his origins about? Oedipus starts to investigate – despite all the warnings. As in his updating of Schnitzler’s «The Doctor», Robert Icke has radically translated a theatre classic into the present. Icke’s «Oedipus» looks behind the myth and is both a family tragedy and a political thriller.
Ödipus (Oedipus)