Walter Meierjohann

[1] In 2002, Meierjohann was asked by Peter Stein to direct Thornton Wilder’s A Long Christmas Dinner with Stein’s Ensemble in Berlin, and in the same year, he was nominated for a festival award for his production of The Just by Albert Camus.

Other productions in Germany include: Waiting for Godot, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Death of a Salesman, and Mary Stuart.

Meierjohann joined the Young Vic in 2007 as International Associate Director.

His productions there include: the European premiere of In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell McCraney, and Kafka’s Monkey,[2] a new adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Report to an Academy, starring award- winning actress Kathryn Hunter and adapted by Colin Teevan.

Other recent UK productions include: Unleashed at The Barbican,[3] The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui[4] at the Nottingham Playhouse, and All My Sons at The Curve.