As a stage director, Romer has won three Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards for productions of Lord of the Flies, and Beautiful Thing (2005).
Other directing work includes Sing Yer Heart Out For the Lads, by Roy Williams, Road by Jim Cartwright, Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess, The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, Mirad a Boy from Bosnia by Ad de Bont, Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton, Look Back in Anger by John Osborne, The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance, Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs, The Twits by Roald Dahl and Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy which won the TMA award in 2008[2] for best production for young people.
Romer directed a 2014 Pilot Theatre version of Antigone adapted as a contemporary street drama by Roy Williams.
[4] In July 2018 Romer co-directed a new production for National Theatre Wales.
'As Long As The Heart Beats' This production formed part of the National Health Service's 70th birthday celebration festival in 2018.