Jemima Levick

{{Short description|British theatre director (born 1978)}}

Jemima Levick (born 1978) is a British theatre director. From

2016 to 2021 she was artistic director of Edinburgh-based Stellar Quines Theatre Company, from 2021 - 2024 she was the Artistic Director of A Play, A Pie and A Pint at Òran Mór.{{cite web |url=https://playpiepint.com/about/meet-the-team/ |title=Meet our team |publisher =A Play A Pie and A Pint| access-date = 30 September 2023}} In April 2024 she became the Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow.{{cite news |last1=Morgan |first1=Fergus |title=Jemima Levick named Tron Theatre artistic director |url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/appointments/jemima-levick-named-tron-theatre-artistic-director |access-date=21 December 2023 |work=The Stage |date=20 December 2023 |language=En}}

Levick graduated with a BA (Hons) in Drama & Theatre Arts,{{cite web |title=50 Years of Drama and Performing Arts: Jemima Levick |url=https://www.qmu.ac.uk/alumni-and-friends/50-years-of-drama-and-performing-arts/jemima-levick/ |website=www.qmu.ac.uk |publisher= |access-date=30 September 2023 |language=en}} specialising in Directing,{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} from Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University School of Drama in 2002.{{cite news |title=Jemima Levick intreview[sic]: The direct approach |url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/jemima-levick-intreview-the-direct-approach-1-1352912 |accessdate=30 September 2023 |work=The Scotsman |date=22 May 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190802144927/https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/jemima-levick-intreview-the-direct-approach-1-1352912 |archive-date= 2 August 2019 }}

She worked as a freelance director for Stellar Quines, the National Theatre of Scotland, the Traverse, Grid Iron, Bordeline and the Royal Lyceum Theatre before being appointed associate director at Dundee Rep in 2009. She became its artistic director until May 2016 when she became artistic director of the Stellar Quines Theatre Company, an Edinburgh-based women's theatre company.{{cite web |title=Jemima Levick |url=https://www.stellarquines.com/about/meet-the-team/jemima-levick/ |publisher=Stellar Quines Theatre Company |accessdate=2 August 2019}}{{cite web |title=Artistic Director, Jemima Levick to Leave Dundee Rep Theatre |url=https://www.dundeerep.co.uk/article/levick |publisher=Dundee Rep |accessdate=2 August 2019 |date=February 2016}}

In the Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland she was shortlisted as "best director" in 2005-06 for A Christmas Carol at the Royal Lyceum Theatre and in 2008-09 for Beauty and the Beast at Dundee Rep (this production also being shortlisted as "Best production for children and young people"), and in 2009-10 she won "Best director" for The Elephant Man at Dundee Rep.{{cite web |title=Shortlists by director |url=https://www.criticsawards.theatrescotland.com/Shortlists/director.html |publisher=Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland |accessdate=2 August 2019}} This production was described as "an impressive mixture of artistry and confidence filled with imagination and poignancy".{{cite web |title=2009-10 winners |url=https://www.criticsawards.theatrescotland.com/Winners/09-10.html |publisher=Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland |accessdate=2 August 2019}}