The writer and director Simon Stone works in theatre, opera and film.
His theatre work includes Phaedra at the National Theatre in London, Yerma (which won the Olivier Award) at the Young Vic in London and at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, Medea at the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and London’s Barbican Centre, Flight 49, Ibsen Huis and Husbands and Wives at the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Peer Gynt at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Rocco und seine Brüder at the Munich Kammerspiele, John Gabriel Borkman (awarded the Nestroy Theatre Prize), Hotel Strindberg and Komplizen at the Vienna Burgtheater, Unsere Zeit at the Munich Residenztheater, Eine griechische Trilogie at the Berliner Ensemble, Les Trois Soeurs and La Trilogie de la vengeance at the Odéon in Paris, Engel in Amerika and Drei Schwestern at Theater Basel, The Wild Duck at the Barbican Centre, Perth Festival, the Ibsen Festival in Oslo, the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney and the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne, Thyestes, The Government Inspector, The Promise, Neighbourhood Watch, Miss Julie (as author), Hamlet, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Death of a Salesman and Strange Interlude at the Belvoir St Theatre, The Cherry Orchard with the Melbourne Theatre Company and Face to Face and Baal with the Sydney Theatre Company. As the founder and artistic director of the theatre company The Hayloft Project his productions included The Only Child, Spring Awakening, B. C., Chekhov Re-Cut: Platonov and The Suicide.
As an opera director Simon Stone’s productions include Lear and Medée at the Salzburg Festival, the world premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, with revivals at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Die tote Stadt at Theater Basel and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Los Angeles Opera, La traviata at the Paris Opéra and the Vienna State Opera, Wozzeck at the Vienna State Opera and Die Teufel von Loudun at the Bavarian State Opera.
Simon Stone’s films include The Dig (2021) and The Daughter (2015).
