Adam Penford is Artistic Director at Nottingham Playhouse, which has twice been awarded Theatre of the Year during his tenure. He trained at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA).

For Nottingham Playhouse credits include: Punch (& Young Vic; Apollo West End; Samuel Friedman Broadway); Dear Evan Hansen (& UK and Asia Tour); The Clothes They Stood Up In,  A Christmas Carol (& Birmingham Rep; worldwide cinema release); Piaf, Bubble and Holes (& UK Tour), An Enemy of the People, Coram Boy and The Madness of George III (& NT Live), Wonderland, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Dick Whittington.

For the National Theatre credits include: A Small Family Business (Olivier); Dorfman Opening Gala (Dorfman); Island (Cottlesloe); One Man Two Guvnors, Revival Director (West End/Broadway/UK and International Tour); and NT 50 Years on Stage, Associate Director (Olivier and BBC2).

Other Directing credits include: The Sound of Music (Chichester Festival Theatre); Committee (Donmar Warehouse); The Boys in The Band (Vaudeville/Park Theatre); Platinum (Hampstead Theatre); Unfaithful (Found 111); Watership Down (The Watermill Theatre); Deathtrap (Salisbury Playhouse/UK Tour); Ghost the Musical (The English Theatre, Frankfurt); Stepping Out (Salisbury Playhouse) and The Machine Gunners and Run! (Polka Theatre).

Assistant/Associate Director credits include: The Winter’s Tale (Propeller at The Watermill Theatre); The Vagina Monologues (National Tour); 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (Bush Theatre); Imagine This (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); Dying For It (Almeida) and Charley’s Aunt (Oxford Playhouse).