Phelim is a founder member and co-artistic director of Improbable..
Awards include
Winner Olivier Award Best Direction for My Neighbour Totoro
Winner Olivier Award Best New Opera Production for Akhnaten
Winner Time Out Off West End Best Production for 70 Hill Lane
Nominated Outstanding Musical Drama Desk Awards for The Addams Family
Winner Manchester Evening News Best Fringe Show for 70 Hill Lane
Winner Obie for best show off Broadway for 70 Hill Lane
Winner Best Show Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre for 70 Hill Lane
Winner 2002 Laurence Olivier Award, Best Entertainment for Shock Headed Peter.
Winner of The Best Director Award in the Barclays TMA Theatre Award 1998 for Shock Headed Peter
Nominated for the 1998/9 South Bank Show Theatre Award for Shock Headed Peter
Winner of the Time Out Director of the Year Award for Gaudete
Winner of the Barclays Theatre Award for Best Touring Production 1997 for A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Theatre and Opera Directing includes
My Neighbour Totoro
Improbable / Royal Shakespeare Company
Best Direction - WhatsOnStage Awards 2023
Best Director - Olivier Awards 2023 and 5 other Olivier's including Best Entertainment
The Hours
Met Opera
The Tao of Glass (Writer and Co-Director)
Improbable
Akhnaten
Improbable / ENO / LA Opera / Met Opera / Improbable
Olivier Winner Best New Opera Production
Opening Skinner's Box (with Lee Simpson)
Improbable / Northern Stage / West Yorkshire Playhouse
Aida
Improbable / ENO / Houston / Geneva
Cosi Fan Tutti
Improbable / ENO / Met Opera
A Christmas Carol
West End / Sonia Friedman Productions
The Tempest
Improbable / Northern Stage / Oxford Playhouse
The Little Match Girl (with Mark Down)
Improbable / Blind Summit / Spoleto Festival, Charleston, USA
Beauty and the Beast
Improbable / Young Vic / International
The Perfect American
ENO/ Teatro Real Madrid / Improbable
The Enchanted Island
The Metropolitan Opera, New York [World Premiere]
125th Anniversary Gala
The Metropolitan Opera, New York
Alex
Arts Theatre, UK and International Tour
Satyagraha
Improbable / ENO / Metropolitan Opera
Theatre of Blood
National Theatre/Improbable
Lifegame (with Julian Crouch and Lee Simpson)
Improbable
Coma (with Julian Crouch and Lee Simpson)
Improbable
The Hanging Man (with Julian Crouch and Lee Simpson)
West Yorkshire Playhouse/Lyric Hammersmith
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Deutsches Schauspielhaus
Cinderella (with Neil Bartlett, Julian Crouch and Lee Simpson)
Improbable / Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
Sticky (with Julian Crouch and Lee Simpson)
Improbable
Shock Headed Peter (with Julian Crouch)
Cultural Industry/Lyric Hammersmith/ West Yorkshire Playhouse
Gaudete
Almeida
The Sweetshop Owner
Croydon Warehouse
Would Say Something
Guy Dartnell one man show
The Glass Hill
Watermans Arts Centre
The Vinegar Works
Almeida
The Ghost Downstairs
Leicester Haymarket
Dr Faustus
Nottingham Playhouse
Don Quixote
Commotion Theatre Company
The Servant of Two Masters
West Yorkshire Playhouse Venice and Rome for the Goldoni Bicentennial
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
West Yorkshire Playhouse
Improbable Tales
Nottingham Playhouse
Get Off My Foot
Nottingham Playhouse
The Government Inspector
West Yorkshire Playhouse
A Family Affair
Theatre Clwyd
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
English Shakespeare Company Tour
Writing Credits include
Adapted for the Stage:
Cupboard Man by Ian McEwan
Gaudette by Ted Hughes
The Vinegar Works by Edward Gorey
The Sweetshop Owner by Graham Swift
The Ghost Downstairs by Leon Garfield for the Leicester Haymarket
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (with Julian Crouch)
The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban
Original Plays:
Get Off My Foot - a comedy about a double act written for the Nottingham Playhouse with Lee Simpson
The Glass Hill - a devised play based on a boy’s childhood fantasies
Improbable Tales - improvised at the Nottingham Playhouse
The Masterson Inheritance - improvised Radio 4 comedy drama
70 Hill Lane - an autobiographical piece about ghosts and supernatural goings on.
My Neighbour Totoro (Improbable/ RSC/ Barbican)
Akhnaten (ENO)
A Christmas Carol (Duke of York's Theatre)
Cosi Fan Tutti (ENO)
Satyagraha (ENO)
Shockheaded Peter (Cultural Industry/Lyric Hammersmith/ West Yorkshire Playhouse)
Shockheaded Peter (Cultural Industry/Lyric Hammersmith/ West Yorkshire Playhouse)
The Perfect American (ENO)
Theatre of Blood (National Theatre)