Christopher Geelan is a theatre director specialising in making Shakespeare accessible to young audiences. Productions directed for the Young Shakespeare Company include: Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing and Henry V.

His work as a freelance director includes a national tour of Romeo and Juliet for the English Shakespeare Company, open air productions of Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 for Principal Theatre Company, Measure for Measure and Othello at the Cochrane Theatre for Theatre Unlimited and ten different productions for the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. Christopher has been a guest lecturer on ‘Shakespeare in Performance’ for the Open University and his educational projects have been featured on News at Ten and on BBC Newsround.