Artistic Director
Holly Race Roughan
Holly Race Roughan, Artistic Director of Headlong and board member of theatre-in-prisons charity Kestrel, has directed works including The New Real (Royal Shakespeare Company), Metamorphoses (Shakespeare’s Globe), Prurience (Southbank Centre, Guggenheim New York), and Eye of a Needle (Southwark Playhouse).
For Headlong: The House Party (Chichester Festival Theatre & UK Tour), A View from the Bridge (Bolton Octagon & UK Tour), Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe & UK Tour), Corrina Corrina (Liverpool Everyman), Hedda Tesman (Chichester Festival Theatre), People, Places & Things (UK Tour), and Unprecedented (BBC).
In Autumn 2025 she will direct Ralph Fiennes in Small Hotel at Theatre Royal Bath.