Amy Iles

MA Drama Directing Student


Biography

Amy is a Bristol-based theatre director and facilitator. She is interested in character-driven storytelling that speaks to the nuance of human relationships, especially those that centre women and their experiences. Her work is brave, energetic, highly collaborative and playful. She enjoys working across devised theatre, adaptation, improvised theatre and boldly reinventing classical theatre.

Amy graduated from the University of Bristol in 2019 with First Class Honours in Theatre and Performance Studies. She has facilitated theatre classes, workshops and productions for companies across the South West since 2019, including Theatre Royal Bath, Travelling Light Theatre Company, Stagecoach Performing Arts, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and the Bristol Improv Theatre.  In 2024, she completed Tobacco Factory Theatre’s Young Producers scheme, ‘BLUEPRINT’.

Credits include: Deposit by Matt Hartley (Bristol Old Vic, 2025); The Winter’s Tale (Tobacco Factory Theatres, 2025 – Assistant Director); Redpython (Bristol Improv Theatre, 2023).

Students developing and growing in confidence during their time here, seeing their work reaching professional standards in approach and execution; a student who intends to be a stage manager producing a wonderful sound design; a first year student making a lovely recording of a song for their recording project; tracking the careers of former students and seeing them be successful; being able to find a job opportunity for a recent graduate. Frank Bradley, Sound Tutor