Selina Cartmell is a British theatre director based in Dublin, Ireland.
Her mother Annie worked as a midwife and her father Gordon is a retired accountant, and she has three older brothers.
She holds a MA (Distinction) from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in Advanced Theatre Practice in Directing and an MA in History of Art and Drama from University of Glasgow and Trinity College Dublin, where she wrote her thesis on Samuel Beckett.
[5][6] In 2017, she was announced as the fourth artistic director of the Gate Theatre, where she has since directed three plays: Red Shoes (2018), Assassins (2018) and A Christmas Carol (2019).
[7] In April 2024 it was announced that she had been appointed as Creative Director for the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.