Polly Findlay

Polly Findlay is a British theatre director, who won the Olivier for Best Entertainment in 2011 for Derren Brown's Svengali.

Findlay was, herself, a successful child actor, starting with a small part in an RSC play at the age of 12 and undertaking a professional job a year until she went to University.

[1] Findlay studied English at Exeter College, University of Oxford, from 2001 to 2004, then completed post-graduate training in directing at LAMDA.

[5] In 2018, she directed an adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the Donmar, and in 2019, a production of Rutherford and Son at the National Theatre.

[6] Outside of the UK, Findlay has directed in Germany and Denmark, including War Horse (Gefährten) at the Theater des Westens in Berlin, Strindberg's Frøken Julie at Aarhus Theatre.