Oscar Toeman is an experienced freelance theatre director. He was runner up for the JMK Award 2019, and a finalist for the Peter Hall RTST Award 2018.

He trained as a Staff and Associate Director at the National Theatre, as an Assistant Director at the RSC, Shakespeare’s Globe and West End, and on the Young Vic’s Springboard programme. He is an alumni of Lincoln Centre Theater’s Directors Lab in New York, which he participated on in 2017 as a recepient of a Michael Grandage Company Futures Bursary.

1. Assistant Director, The Merchant of Venice

   RSC · Feb 2015 - Sep 2015

2. Staff Director, Waste

   National Theatre · Sep 2015 - Dec 2015

3. Director, The Grandfathers

   Mountview · Oct 2014 - Mar 2015

4. Assistant Director, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

   Theatre Royal Bath · May 2014 - Jul 2014

5. Director, Laburnum Grove

   Finborough · Jan 2013 - Mar 2013

6. Associate Director, Twelfth Night

   Shakespeare's Globe/ West End · Aug 2012 - Feb 2013

7. Assistant Director, Uncle Vanya

   The Print Room · Feb 2012 - Jul 2012

8. Assistant Director, Skane

   Hampstead Theatre · Sep 2011 - Nov 2011

9. Assistant Director, Accolade

   Finborough Theatre · Jan 2011 - Feb 2011

1. Workshop: How to develop and pitch a show with Emma Morgan and Anna Abenson

   ScreenSkills · Jul 2020

   ScreenSkills Funded

2. Workshop with Directors UK: Directing from stage to screen with Josie Rourke and Thomas Hescott

   ScreenSkills · Jul 2020

   ScreenSkills Funded

3. BA English

   University of Cambridge · Sep 2006 - Jun 2009