CHRISTOPHER HAYDON

Christopher studied at Cambridge University and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, the National Theatre Studio, The Lincoln Center Director's Lab in New York and with Cicely Berry at the RSC. In 2007 he was the recipient of both the inaugural Chichester Festival Theatre Heller Fellowship and the Channel Four Theatre Director's Bursary which enabled him to spend a year on attachment at the Salisbury Playhouse.
 
He is the Associate Director of On Theatre and an Associate Artist at the Bush Theatre.
 
As a director, theatre includes: Monsters (Arcola Theatre); A Number (Salisbury Playhouse); Grace (British Council/On Theatre, Theatre Du Poche, Brussels, Belgium); Notes from Underground (Arcola Theatre); Deep Cut (Associate Director, Sherman Cymru/National Tour).

As assitant director, theatre includes Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart (Chichester Festival Theatre and West End), Twelfth Night (Chichester Festival Theatre), Othello, Touched, What the Butler Saw, Robin Hood (Salisbury Playhouse), On Religion (Soho Theatre/On Theatre), The Desire Tree (Oxford Playhouse/Tumanishvili Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia) The Found Man (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh).

He is also an award winning journalist and has written for The Financial Times, The Scotsman, Prospect Magazine, and The Guardian (online). He is co-editor of the books Conversations on Religion and Conversations on Truth both published by Continuum. He is currently co-editing a third book called Identity and Identification to be published by the Wellcome Trust in October 2009.