Neil Vivian Bartlett, OBE (born 1958) is a British director, performer, translator and writer.
He was one of the founding members of Gloria, a production company established in 1988 to produce his work along with that of Nicolas Bloomfield, Leah Hausman and Simon Mellor.
[3][4] His 2004 production of Shakespeare's Pericles was nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Theatrical Achievement in 2004.
He also took part in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six Books, where he wrote a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible[7] In 2022, he adapted Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando for a West End production that was directed by Michael Grandage and starred Emma Corrin.
In 2016 Bartlett read aloud the complete text of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis (1897) in the old chapel of HM Prison Reading, where Wilde had been incarcerated from 1895 to 1897.