Anthony Almeida is a multi-award winning theatre and opera director.

He is the only director to have won both the RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award and the European Opera Director Prize. He has been nominated ‘Rising Star’ at the International Opera Awards, and ‘Best Director’ at The Stage Debut Awards.

Anthony has been Resident at both Almeida Theatre and Royal Opera House, and served on the Board of Trustees at Nottingham Playhouse.

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Interviews

“For me as a storyteller, it always has to be an act of love”: The Beekeeper of Aleppo, February 2026

Une odyssée de l’existence: Heroine, September 2024

The Guardian: The Doctor, October 2022

Love London Love Culture: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, September 2021

BBC Radio Leicester: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, June 2021

“The Work Has Got To Cost And It Has Got To Matter To Me”, November 2019