Melly Still

Melly Still is a British stage director, designer and choreographer.
Still's first professional theatre job was assistant to the choreographer of James and the Giant Peach at Ray DaSilva's Norwich Puppet Theatre in 1985. She has worked as designer and co-director on many productions including the RSC's version of Tales from Ovid and Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie at the National Theatre.
Since the early 2000s, she principally directs and has worked regularly with the RSC, Bristol Old Vic, Rose Theatre, Birmingham Rep, Wales Millennium Centre, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and on several occasions for the National Theatre including with her multi-award nominated production of Coram Boy in London and on Broadway, The Revenger's Tragedy, From Morning to Midnight, and My Brilliant Friend – Parts 1 & 2 which transferred from Rose Theatre.
She is an Associate Artist at Bristol Old Vic and Rose Theatre, and a fellow at York St John University.
She often works closely with the designer Anna Fleischle and designer Ti Green and also the British director Tim Supple.

Directing credits

The Seven Pomegranate Seeds – by Colin Teevan.
The Mirror Crack'd – by Agatha Christie, adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and re-imagined for India by Ayeehsa Menon with Sonali Kulkarni, Denzil Smith and Shernaz Patel.
The Lovely Bones – by Alice Sebold, adapted by Bryony Lavery with Charlotte Beaumont.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin – by Louis de Bernières, adapted by Rona Munro.
Tiger Bay the Musical – music by Daf James, book and lyrics by Michael Williams with John Owen-Jones and Noel Sullivan.
My Brilliant Friend – Parts 1 & 2 – by Elena Ferrante, adapted by April De Angelis with Niamh Cusack and Catherine McCormack. The production transferred to London's Royal National Theatre in November 2019.
Cymbeline – William Shakespeare
Rats' Tales – based on Carol Ann Duffy, devised by Melly Still
The Cunning Little Vixen – Leoš Janáček
Coram Boy – by Jamila Gavin, adapted by Helen Edmundson
Beasts and Beauties – by Carol Ann Duffy
Zaide – Mozart, in an English Version by Michael Symmons Roberts and Ben Power
Nation – by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Mark Ravenhill
Rusalka – Dvořák
Cinderella – In a version by Ben Power
The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton –
Watership Down – by Richard Adams, adapted by Rona Munro
Coram Boy – by Jamila Gavin, adapted by Helen Edmundson
Alice in Wonderland –
Beasts and Beauties – by Carol Ann Duffy

Coram Boy was nominated for four Olivier Awards at London's National Theatre and six Tony Awards on Broadway. Still was nominated for both Best Director and Best Designer at each award ceremony.