Professional Work
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
4 Walls
Written by Rukus
Derby Theatre main stage.
September 2023
Written by Roy Williams OBE
9 March 2023- 1 April 2023
Tramshed Theatre, New Wimbledon Theatre Studio, Theatre Peckham, Bernie Grant Arts Centre
Written by Vernon Vanriel and Dougie Blaxland.
7 January 2023- 4 February 2023
Park Theatre
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).
Typical
Written by Ryan Calais Cameron.
Soho Theatre, Sept 2019 & Pleasance Courtyard Beneath (Edinburgh Fringe) Aug 2019.
Royal Court, London and Birmingham (19 schools)
Written by Maureen Hunter.
(Finborough Theatre, co-produced by Wrested Veil).
Short pieces:
An Adventure by Vinay Patel (An excerpt, Bush Theatre, private opening).
Cell by Nathaniel Martello-White, 5 Plays Project, (Young Vic Theatre).
Dishonour by Tanika Gupta, Acts of Defiance Festival (Theatre503).
Here comes the Bride by Milli Bhatia, Black Lives, Black Words (Bush Theatre).
All The Ways to Say Goodbye by Neil LaBute, Fresh Direction Project (Young Vic Theatre).
The Christians & The Kalki Project, Wrested Veil in partnership with the Gate (Gate Theatre).
Hosea’s Girl, Studio Firsts Award (Talawa Firsts).
You know that I’ll be back by Tamara Felisa Micner (Theatre503).
Universally Speaking by Connor Caroll (Theatre503).
DIRECTING (FILM)
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).
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.)
DIRECTING (AUDIO/RADIO)
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.
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.
Persons Unknown
Written by Fin Kennedy
The Bulletin
Written by Barbara Bergin.
November 2022
Produced by Applied Stories.
You can listen here.
Middlemarch Monologues
BBC Radio 3
(Broadcast in March 2022)
More information here.
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.
Precious Little Thing
Written by Roberta Livingston.
BBC Radio 4.
First Broadcast: 21 May 2021, 2.15pm
You can listen here.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF WRESTED VEIL
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.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTING (THEATRE)
The Brightening Air
Old Vic, 2025
Death of England: Michael
Death of England: Delroy
Death of England: Closing Time
Soho Place 2024
good dog
tiata fahodzi and Tara Finney Productions in association with Watford Palace Theatre, Spring 2019 UK tour, 14 venues.
Flowering Cherry
Finborough Theatre.
2015
The Hackney Volpone
The Rose Lipman Building
2014
Associate Director Residencies:
Theatre 503
( 2019-2021).
tiata fahodzi
(2017-2019)
(As Trainee Artistic Director)
ASSISTANT DIRECTING
mixed brain
A tiata fahodzi and Paines Plough co-production, Roundabout Summer Hall Edinburgh. Dir. Natalie Ibu.
Macbeth
Dorfman National Theatre, Stratford Circus and Schools tour. Dir. Justin Audibert.
Romeo & Juliet
Dorfman National Theatre, Stratford Circus and Schools tour. Dir. Bijan Sheibani.
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.
Plaques & Tangles,
Royal Court Theatre.
Dir. Lucy Morrison.
Alpha Beta
Finborough Theatre.
Dir. Purni Morell.
Idomeneus
Gate Theatre.
Dir. Ellen McDougall.
Henry the Fifth
Unicorn Theatre.
Dir. Ellen McDougall.
Three Generations of Women
Greenwich Theatre (and touring).
Dir. Ria Parry.
Andy Capp The Musical,
Finborough Theatre.
Dir. Jake Smith.
A Doll’s House
Young Vic Theatre (as Boris Karloff Trainee Assistant Director).
Dir. Carrie Cracknell.