Professional Work
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DIRECTING (THEATRE)
Written, Directed and Co-produced by Anastasia Osei-Kuffour
*Nominated for Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards 2024 ✨
Omnibus Theatre 3-20 April 2024
Talawa 29 May- 1 June 2024
Brenda’s Got A Baby
Written by Jess Hagan
New Diorama
November 2023
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4 Walls
Written by Rukus
Derby Theatre main stage.
September 2023
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Written by Roy Williams OBE
9 March 2023- 1 April 2023
Tramshed Theatre, New Wimbledon Theatre Studio, Theatre Peckham, Bernie Grant Arts Centre
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Written by Vernon Vanriel and Dougie Blaxland.
7 January 2023- 4 February 2023
Park Theatre
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Seeds
Written by Mel Pennant.
Spring 2020 national tour.
Leeds Playhouse, Live Newcastle, Derby Theatre & Warwick Arts Centre.
(Cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic).
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Typical
Written by Ryan Calais Cameron.
Soho Theatre, Sept 2019 & Pleasance Courtyard Beneath (Edinburgh Fringe) Aug 2019.
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Royal Court, London and Birmingham (19 schools)
Written by Maureen Hunter.
(Finborough Theatre, co-produced by Wrested Veil).
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Short pieces:
​An Adventure by Vinay Patel (An excerpt, Bush Theatre, private opening).
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Cell by Nathaniel Martello-White, 5 Plays Project, (Young Vic Theatre).
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Dishonour by Tanika Gupta, Acts of Defiance Festival (Theatre503).
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Here comes the Bride by Milli Bhatia, Black Lives, Black Words (Bush Theatre).
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All The Ways to Say Goodbye by Neil LaBute, Fresh Direction Project (Young Vic Theatre).
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The Christians & The Kalki Project, Wrested Veil in partnership with the Gate (Gate Theatre).
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Hosea’s Girl, Studio Firsts Award (Talawa Firsts).
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You know that I’ll be back by Tamara Felisa Micner (Theatre503).
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Universally Speaking by Connor Caroll (Theatre503). ​
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DIRECTING (FILM)
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Typical
Soho Theatre On Demand (2021)
Starring Richard Blackwood.
Writer: Ryan Calais Cameron
DoP: Jermaine Edwards
Editor: Oral Norrie Ottey
Producers: Soho Theatre and Nouveau Riche.
(Please contact Anastasia's agent if you would like to watch).
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Faith, Hope, Love
A collection of six short poetry films Anastasia wrote, directed and performed in 2019.
(Please contact Anastasia's agent if you would like to watch.)
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DIRECTING (AUDIO/RADIO)
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Faith, Hope & Glory
BBC Radio 4
Anastasia has been a regular series director from series 3 onwards.
Writers:
Roy Williams OBE, Carol Russel, Rex Obano. You can listen here.​
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We Need New Stories
Written by Zodwa Nyoni
Produced by Fifth Word Theatre
A collection of 9 audio stories inspired by oral history interviews of Zimbabwean-born residents living in Nottingham. You can listen here.
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Persons Unknown
Written by Fin Kennedy
The Bulletin
Written by Barbara Bergin.
November 2022
Produced by Applied Stories.
You can listen here.
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Middlemarch Monologues
BBC Radio 3
(Broadcast in March 2022)
More information here.
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A Stranger In A Strange Place
Written by Mel Pennant.
Produced by Tamasha and commissioned by the National Archives.
November 2021
A true story from The National Archives’ files, brought shockingly to life. You can listen here.
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Precious Little Thing
Written by Roberta Livingston.
BBC Radio 4.
First Broadcast: 21 May 2021, 2.15pm
You can listen here.
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF WRESTED VEIL
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2017 to present.
Wrested Veil is a producing company unveiling stories with potency and flourish, founded in 2017 to produce Footprints On The Moon at the Finborough Theatre. We have a desire to reveal stories that explore truth and the human story behind real world issues, in the hope of sparking change. Our second co-production was Seeds (Spring 2020). Our third co-production was Love Steps at Omnibus Theatre and Talawa 2024.
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ASSOCIATE DIRECTING (THEATRE)
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The Brightening Air
Old Vic, 2025
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Death of England: Michael
Death of England: Delroy
Death of England: Closing Time
Soho Place 2024
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good dog
tiata fahodzi and Tara Finney Productions in association with Watford Palace Theatre, Spring 2019 UK tour, 14 venues.
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Flowering Cherry
Finborough Theatre.
2015
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The Hackney Volpone
The Rose Lipman Building
2014
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Associate Director Residencies:
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Theatre 503
( 2019-2021).
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tiata fahodzi
(2017-2019)
(As Trainee Artistic Director)​​
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ASSISTANT DIRECTING
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mixed brain
A tiata fahodzi and Paines Plough co-production, Roundabout Summer Hall Edinburgh. Dir. Natalie Ibu.
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Macbeth
Dorfman National Theatre, Stratford Circus and Schools tour. Dir. Justin Audibert.
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Romeo & Juliet
Dorfman National Theatre, Stratford Circus and Schools tour. Dir. Bijan Sheibani.
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Cuttin’ It
A Young Vic/Royal Court Theatre co-production with Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Sheffield Theatres and The Yard Theatre (Part of the Young Vic’s Jerwood Assistant Director Programme 2016, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation). Dir. Gbolahan Obisesan.
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Plaques & Tangles,
Royal Court Theatre.
Dir. Lucy Morrison.
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Alpha Beta
Finborough Theatre.
Dir. Purni Morell.
Idomeneus
Gate Theatre.
Dir. Ellen McDougall.
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Henry the Fifth
Unicorn Theatre.
Dir. Ellen McDougall.
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Three Generations of Women
Greenwich Theatre (and touring).
Dir. Ria Parry.
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Andy Capp The Musical,
Finborough Theatre.
Dir. Jake Smith.
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A Doll’s House
Young Vic Theatre (as Boris Karloff Trainee Assistant Director).
Dir. Carrie Cracknell.