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Joe Hill-Gibbins (born 1977 as Joseph Hill-Gibbins) is a British theatre director. He is an Artistic Associate of the Young Vic Theatre in London.
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- Joe hill gibbins
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Joe hill gibbins
Background
Hill-Gibbins was born and raised in Surrey by his parents, a car salesman and a primary school secretary. He read Drama at Manchester University.
Career
Hill-Gibbins directed his first professional production, Wallace Shawn’s A Thought In Three Parts, as winner of the 2002 James Menzies-Kitchen Trust Award for young directors.
He trained at the Royal Court Theatre, both as an assistant director to Dominic Cooke, James Macdonald and Ian Rickson, and as a senior script reader in the literary office. In 2004 he became Trainee Associate Director at the Royal Court, helping curate the Young Writer’s Festival for which he directed A Girl In A Car With A Man by Rob Evans.
In 2006 Hill-Gibbins joined the staff of the Young Vic theatre. After directing Bertolt Brecht’s one-act comedy A Respectable Wedding in a new translation by Rory Bremner, he became an Associate Director. In 2010 he was appointed Deputy Artistic Director and directed acclaimed productions of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, which returned to the theatre in 2011.
In 2011 he also directed Penelope Skinner's new play The Village Bike at the Royal Court.