Gitika Buttoo

Director

Gitika is a British Indian Theatre Director from Yorkshire. Winner of the JMK Trust Bursary in 2017, she became Resident Assistant Director at Leeds Playhouse. She then went on to work for the Octagon Theatre in Bolton as their Participation Director where she was Assistant Director on main house productions and also directed all their youth theatre productions. She became the Artistic Associate of Birmingham Opera Company in Summer 2018. After one year in post, she moved on to work with the National Theatre and CAST, Doncaster on Public Acts. Gitika is now the Associate Director for LUNG Theatre and directs work nationally. 

Her most recent credits include: The Jungle Book (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, 2021); Runaway (Young Vic Theatre, 2021); Northern Girls (Pilot Theatre, 2020); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (National Theatre and CAST, 2020); Trojan Horse (UK Tour, 2020); Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Birmingham Opera Company, 2019); Beyond Shame (Derby Theatre, 2018).