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Life and career Mitchell was raised in Hermitage, Berkshire, and educated at Oakham School. Upon leaving Oakham she went up to Magdalen College, Oxford, to read English. She is particularly inspired by Eastern European theatre[1] and by choreographers such as Pina Bausch and Siobhan Davies. In a career spanning thirty years she has directed over 100 shows - over 70 theatre productions--Gerryyellow (talk) 15:54, 16 December 2019 (UTC)--Gerryyellow (talk) 15:54, 16 December 2019 (UTC) and nearly 30 operas. She began her career behind the scenes at the King's Head Theatre in London before taking on work as an assistant director at theatre companies including Paines Plough (1987) and the Royal Shakespeare Company (1988 – 1989). '''In 1989 she was awarded a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to study director’s training in Russian, Georgia, Lithuania and Poland and the work she saw there, including productions by Lev Dodin,Eiumentas Nekrosius and Anatoli Vassiliev, influenced her own practice for the next twenty years.  Early in her career in the 1990s she directed five a number of early productions under the umbrella of her company Classics On A Shoestring, including Women of Troy for which she won a Time Out Award.''' ''' Mitchell was an Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1996 and 1998 and in 1997 she became responsible for programming at the Other Place – the RSC's now defunct black box space. While at the RSC she directed nine productions, including The Phoenician Women which won her the Evening Standard Award for Best Director in 1996.

'''Between 2000 and 2003 she was an Associate Director at The Royal Court Theatre and between 2003 and 2011 she was an Associate of the Royal National Theatre.[2]

She has directed thirteen productions for the Royal Court, including Ten Billion (2012) and 2071(2014) about the climate emergency, an issue she is passionate about. Recent productions at The Royal Court include her ongoing collaboration with the writer Alice Birch on Ophelia’s Zimmer and Birch’s play, Anatomy of a Suicide.

At the National Theatre she has directed eighteen productions, the most innovative being an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, The Waves, where she combined theatre making with the use of live video, creating a form later called ‘live cinema’. The live cinema work was subsequently developed in Germany and France. She has directed over 15 live cinema productions in the UK, Austria, Germany and France, at theatres like the SchaubuhneTheatre (Berlin) and Cologne Schauspielhaus, and these pieces have toured the world including Greece, Russia, China, Portugal and Brazil. These ground-breaking shows have contributed to the development of the use of video in theatre and influenced the creative horizons of the younger generation of theatre makers.

Whilst at the National Theatre Mitchell also pioneered children’s theatre for primary school age theatre goers, including an adaptation of Dr Seuss’s Cat in the Hat. Her interest in this age group also led her to initiate English National Opera’s first ever opera commission for a primary school audience - an adaptation of Oliver Jeffers’s book, The Way Back Home.

In 1996 Mitchell started directing operas at Welsh National Opera where she directed four productions, including Handel’s Jephtha and Jancek’s Jenufa. Since then she has directed operas at houses, including the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Glyndebourne, the Salzburg Festival, the Staatsoper (Berlin), the Royal Danish Opera, Opera Comique (Paris), Geneva Opera and most recently, the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

From 2008 Mitchell started working regularly on mainland Europe in Germany, Holland, France, Denmark and Austria. Her first production for the Cologne Schauspiehaus, Wunchkonzert, earned her a place at the Theatretreffen in Berlin and since then she has directed four productions for the Cologne Schauspielaus, seven for the Schaubuhne Theatre, Berlin, and six for the Hamburg Schauspielhaus. She has also worked at the Toneelgroep, Amsterdam, and twice at the Bouffes du Nord, Paris. She is currently a resident director at The Schaubuhne Theatre, Berlin, the Hamburg Schaupsielhaus and she has just finished a seven-year artist-in-residency at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. In 2015 the Stadsschouwburg Theatre in Amsterdam held a retrospective of her opera and theatre work, presenting eight productions from across Europe. Her frequent collaborators include writer Martin Crimp and designer Vicki Mortimer.

Mitchell staged a new production of Luigi Nono's Al gran sole carico d'amore for the Salzburg Festival in 2009,[3] and a new production of James MacMillan's and Michael Symmons Roberts's Parthenogenesis at the Royal Opera House in June 2009.[4] She has also directed installations, including Five Truths at the V&A. In 2011 the Department of Theatre and Performance at the Victoria and Albert Museum invited Mitchell and Leo Warner of 59 Productions to conceive and produce a video installation exploring the nature of 'truth in performance'.[5] Taking as its inspiration 5 of the most influential European theatre directors of the last century, the project examines how each of the practitioners would direct the actress playing Ophelia in the famous 'mad' scenes in Shakespeare's Hamlet. This multiscreen video installation, launched at the Chantiers Europe festival at the Theatre de la Ville in Paris on 4 June, and opened at the V&A on 12 July 2011.[6] This commission was followed up in with another installation about the history of music hall. In 2008 she published The Director’s Craft for Routledge (in several translations, including Catalan, Korean and German), her practical manual to help young directors learn how to direct. She also published two books based on her live cinema productions – some trace of her and Waves, both in 2008.

Currently a Professor of Theatre Directing at Royal Holloway University, London, where she teaches on an MA in directing. Other academic positions include: Visiting Professor of Opera at Oxford University 2017 Visiting Fellow at Central St Martins, London 2016 – 2018 Honorary Fellow at Rose Bruford College, London 2014 Cultural Fellow at Kings College, London 2015 –Present

According to general manager Peter Gelb, Mitchell was scheduled to direct a future production of Mozart's opera Così fan tutte at the Metropolitan Opera House.[7] '''

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