Rebecca Atkinson-Lord is a Writer, Director and Producer based in London and working internationally.

Who I am. Where I come from.

I'm from Wolverhampton via Crete (it's a long story), so grew up with a dual cultural identity. I read Ancient History and Classics at Bristol (to feed my early obsession with brilliant stories), then went to RADA to train as a director.

In 2008 I founded Arch 468, an arts production and development hub that exists to blaze new trails and shape the cultural ecology of the future. From 2010 - 2016, I was Co-Director of Theatre at Ovalhouse where I commissioned, developed and co-produced more than 80 new pieces of theatre and, in addition to the organisation's NPO settlement, raised over £1.5 million for artists and their work.

Right now, I'm thinking about how the arts can offer people a hopeful vision of the future that they can choose to walk towards.

I want the arts to be a rare voice for liberalism and complexity even when I don’t agree with what is being said.

My work.

I tell stories to understand and be understood.

I want art that changes how I think about the world.

I want stories full of fallible, messy, honest humanity that flirt with truth.

I work in lots of different ways across several genres but mostly in theatre and film.

I'm a director, producer, writer, performer and curator.