"Let us hope that 2005 brings more of this company" Evening Standard . . . . . "One of the best new theatre companies around" Edinburgh Evening News . . . . . "Come and see it and be edutained" Rogues and Vagabonds . . . . . "An eclectic yet unified style" Time Out . . . . .

Activated Image


Company Members

Artistic Director

Adam Barnard

Founder and artistic director of Activated Image for which he directed The Tempest; dream.2000; Amy Evans' Strike (Edinburgh and London) ; The Straight Man (Pleasance); Latin! (King's Head); The Principle of Motion and Patience (Finborough).

His freelance directing credits include The Swing of Things, White Lies, Pro-Active, Face Value and Tiny Time Tales (all at Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough); Look Back In Anger and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lichfield Garrick); Virtual Heroes (Vienna's English Theatre); You Were After Poetry (HighTide); Future / Perfect (Soho); 1984 (Old Vic in development); O'Flaherty VC; Press Cuttings; The King, The Constitution and The Lady; Three In The Back, Two In The Head and The Little Years (all at the Orange Tree Theatre); Lark Rise (Oxfordshire Museum); Old Vic New Voices: the 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic); The Reunion (shorts at Arcola); The Bomb (Man in the Moon); How To Live Forever (Hampstead Theatre start night); Hamlet (American tour); Stories of Innocent Experience (cabaret) and interactive children's versions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing (Orange Tree). Also a number of radio plays for Bunbury Banter.

Forthcoming: The Mapmaker's Sorrow by Chris Lee for Eklektisk Theatr, Denmark and Vasco by Georges Schehadé for Orange Tree Theatre.

Assistant directing includes: Couples in Counterpoint (Royal Opera House Linbury Studio), Body and Soul (Gatehouse, Caird Company); Unsuspecting Susan (King's Head and off-Broadway, starring Celia Imrie); The Mob (Orange Tree); Strange Orchestra (Orange Tree); Dona Rosita (Orange Tree) and King Lear (Orange Tree education).

He graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge, in 2001 with a first class degree in English Literature and trained in theatre directing at Mountview Academy, London. He spent 2003-4 on a directing bursary attached to the Orange Tree Theatre, London. He is part of the National Theatre Studio Directors' Programme.

He has had poetry published in several magazines and collections; since 1998 he has written regularly for The Times newspaper. He has been script reader for Sheffield Theatres and the Old Vic. He lives in London.

Download Adam's CV here. Visit the website of his agent, Cole Kitchenn, here.