ATC Theatre

Actors Touring Company (ATC) is a touring theatre company based in London, founded in 1978 by Artistic Director John Retallack. Previous Artistic Directors have included Mark Brickman, Ceri Sherlock, Nick Philippou, Gordon Anderson, Bijan Sheibani, Ramin Gray and the current Artistic Director Matthew Xia (2018 – present).

Since 2007 the company has toured internationally and throughout the UK receiving Olivier Award nominations for the productions of The Brothers Size with the Young Vic and Ivan and the Dogs with Soho Theatre. ATC won an Olivier Award for the production of Gone Too Far! with the Royal Court Theatre. In 2021, ATC’s commission ‘Family Tree’ by Mojisola Adebayo won the 25th Alfred Fagon Award, in a ceremony held at the National Theatre.

The company pursues a policy of internationalism — making theatre collaboratively with artists from abroad, as well as with the voices of the global nations with the UK.

Matthew Xia's tenure (2018 – present)

 * 2021-2 Rice by Michele Lee, co-produced with Orange Tree Theatre, directed by Matthew Xia
 * 2021 Family Tree by Mojisola Adebayo, co-produced with Greenwich & Docklands International Festival and Young Vic, directed by Matthew Xia
 * 2021 Dear Tomorrow: Hope from Home, co-produced with Northern Stage, by Ameera Conrad, Satinder Chohan, Hannah Khalid, Nemo Martin, Chiméne Suleyman, Eve Leigh, directed by Matthew Xia and Natalie Ibu
 * 2020 Dear Tomorrow by Maya Arad Yasur, Kimber Lee & Stephanie Street (letters of hope delivered during COVID lockdowns) directed by Matthew Xia
 * 2019 Amsterdam by Maya Arad Yasur, co-produced with Orange Tree Theatre & Theatre Royal Plymouth. Richmond, 2019; tour, 2020 (cancelled due to COVID, production released via online streaming) directed by Matthew Xia

Ramin Gray's tenure (2011–2018)

 * 2016 – Winter Solstice by Roland Schimmelpfennig, directed by Ramin Gray
 * 2016 -2018 – The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus, in a new version by David Greig, directed by Ramin Gray
 * 2015 – Living with the Lights On with Mark Lockyer, directed by Ramin Gray
 * 2015 – Martyr by Marius von Mayenburg, directed by Ramin Gray
 * 2014 – Blind Hamlet by Nassim Soleimanpour, directed by Ramin Gray
 * 2014 – Hendelsen, the Norwegian-language version of The Events by David Greig, translated by Oda Radoor, directed by Ramin Gray
 * 2014 – Chorale – A Sam Shepard Roadshow directed by Simon Usher
 * 2013 – Die Ereignisse, the German-language version of The Events by David Greig, translated by Brigitte Auer, directed by Ramin Gray
 * 2013 – The Events by David Greig, directed by Ramin Gray
 * 2012 – The Broadwalk Trilogy, comprising three short plays by Mikhail Durnenkov, Pavel Pryazhko, and Natal’ya Vorozhbit, directed by Ramin Gray and Sacha Wares
 * 2012 – Making the Sound of Loneliness, created by Jack Tarlton and Simon Usher, directed by Simon Usher
 * 2012 – Illusions by Ivan Viripaev, translated by Cazimir Liske, directed by Ramin Gray
 * 2012 – Crave by Sarah Kane, directed by Ramin Gray
 * 2012 – Wild Swans, adapted by Alex Woods from the memoir by Jung Chang, directed by Sacha Wares
 * 2011 – The Golden Dragon by Roland Schimmelpfennig, directed by Ramin Gray

Bijan Sheibani's tenure (2007–2011)

 * 2011 – Fatherland by Tom Holloway, directed by Caroline Steinbeis
 * 2010 – Ivan and the Dogs by Hattie Naylor, directed by Ellen Mcdougall
 * 2010 – The Typist by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, directed by Bijan Sheibani
 * 2010 – Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Bihan Sheibani
 * 2009 – Ghosts or Those Who Return by Henrik Ibsen, in a new version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, directed by Bijan Sheibani
 * 2008 – The Brothers Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney, directed by Bijan Sheibani
 * 2008 – Gone Too Far! by Bola Agbaje, directed by Bijan Sheibani
 * 2007 – The Brothers Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney, directed by Bijan Sheibani

Spin-off

 * 2009– Young Blood, play readings in co-production with The Writers Company
 * 2009– Lorca: A Dark River, as part of the Spanish Film Festival
 * 2008– Directing Workshops
 * 2008– Play Size, collaborative pieces with The Young Vic
 * 2008– Going Far!
 * 2008– Have We Gone Too Far?
 * 2008– A Slam Too Far
 * 2007– Panel Size
 * 2007– Play Size, collaborative pieces with The Young Vic
 * 2007– Poets Size, co-produced with Apples and Snakes

Gordon Anderson's tenure (2001–2007)

 * 2006 – Bad Jazz by Robert Farquhar, directed by Gordon Anderson
 * 2006 – Gizmo Love by John Kolvenbach, directed by Matt Wilde
 * 2005 – A Brief History of Helen of Troy by Mark Schultz, directed by Gordon Anderson
 * 2004 – Jeff Koons by Rainald Goetz, directed by Gordon Anderson
 * 2004 – Country Music by Simon Stephens, directed by Gordon Anderson
 * 2003 – Excuses! by Joel Joan and Jordi Sanchez, directed by David Grindley
 * 2003 – One Minute by Simon Stephens, directed by Gordon Anderson
 * 2003 – Out of Our Heads directed by Gordon Anderson
 * 2002 – Arabian Night by Roland Schimmelpfennig, directed by Gordon Anderson
 * 2001 – In the Solitude of Cotton Fields by Bernard-Marie Koltès, directed by Gordon Anderson

Nick Philippou's tenure (1992–2000)

 * 2000 – The Boy Who Left Home after the Brothers Grimm, directed by Nick Philippou
 * 2000 – Macbeth False Memory by Deborah Levy, directed by Nick Philippou
 * 1999 – The Tempest by William Shakespeare, directed by Nick Philippou
 * 1998 – Handbag or The Importance of Being Someone by Mark Ravenhill, directed by Nick Philippou
 * 1997 – Orpheus by Kenneth McLeish, directed by Nick Philippou
 * 1997 – Faust with Pete Bailie and Alain Pelletier, text by Mark Ravenhill, directed by Nick Philippou
 * 1996 – The Belle Vue by Ödön von Horváth, translated by Kenneth McLeish, directed by Nick Philippou
 * 1996 – Miss Julie by August Strindberg, directed by Nick Philippou
 * 1995 – The Modern Husband by Paul Godfrey, directed by Nick Philippou
 * 1995 – Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare, directed by Nick Philippou
 * 1994 – Ion, the Lost Boy Found by Euripides, translated by Kenneth McLeish, directed by Nick Philippou
 * 1993 – Celestina, attributed to Fernando de Rojas, adapted by Max Hafler and Nick Philippou, directed by Nick Philippou
 * 1993 – The Maids by Jean Genet and No Way Out by Jean-Paul Sartre, directed by Nick Philippou
 * 1992 – The Coaldust Affair by Eugène Marin Labiche, directed by Jane Collins

Ceri Sherlock's tenure (1989–1992)

 * 1992 – Woman of Flowers, Blodeuwedd, directed by Ceri Sherlock
 * 1991 – Punishment Without Revenge by Lope de Vega, directed by Ceri Sherlock
 * 1991 – La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler, directed by Ceri Sherlock
 * 1991 – Mozart and Salieri by Alexander Pushkin, directed by Ceri Sherlock
 * 1990 – Torquato Tasso by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Robert David MacDonald, directed by Ceri Sherlock
 * 1990 – Phaedra by Marina Tsvetayeva directed by Ceri Sherlock
 * 1989 – The Triumph of Love by Pierre de Marivaux, directed by Ceri Sherlock
 * 1989 – Cleopatra and Antony by William Shakespeare, directed by Malcolm Edwards

Mark Brickman's tenure (1986–1988)

 * 1988 – The Illusion by Pierre Corneille, directed by Mark Brickman
 * 1988 – Princess Ivona by Witold Gombrowicz, directed by Mark Brickman
 * 1987 – Faustus, directed by Mark Brickman
 * 1987 – Heaven Bent, Hell Bound, directed by Mark Brickman
 * 1986 – The Bourgeois Gentleman by Molière, directed by Mark Brickman
 * 1986 – Hamlet by William Shakespeare, directed by Mark Brickman

John Retallack's tenure (1980–1985)

 * 1986 – Ubu and the Clowns / Ubu in Chains, based on Ubu enchaîné by Alfred Jarry, directed by John Retallack
 * 1984 – A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, in a version by Michael Meyer, directed by John Retallack
 * 1984 – Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, directed by John Retallack
 * 1984 – Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Mark Brickman and John Retallack
 * 1983 – Don Juan, adapted by Nigel Gearing and John Retallack, directed by John Retallack
 * 1982 – Ubu the Vandalist, freely adapted from Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry, directed by John Retallack
 * 1982 – The Provoked Wife by John Vanbrugh, directed by John Retallack
 * 1981 – The Tempest by John Vanbrugh, directed by John Retallack
 * 1980 – Berlin, Berlin, based on The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, music by Paul Sand, directed by John Retallack
 * 1980 – The Life and Death of Don Quixote, based on Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, directed by John Retallack
 * 1978 – Don Juan