Walter Meierjohann


Walter Meierjohann is a theatre director working in Britain. He is artistic director, theatre, of HOME, the centre for international contemporary arts, theatre and film formed by the merger of Cornerhouse and the .

Career

In 2002, Meierjohann was asked by Peter Stein to direct Thornton Wilder’s A Long Christmas Dinner with Stein’s Ensemble in Berlin, and in the same year, he was nominated for a festival award for his production of The Just by Albert Camus. In 2004 Meierjohann joined the State Theatre of Dresden as founder and Artistic Director of NEUBAU: an international New Writing theatre. Other productions in Germany include: Waiting for Godot, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Death of a Salesman, and Mary Stuart.
Meierjohann joined the Young Vic in 2007 as International Associate Director. His productions there include: the European premiere of In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell McCraney, and Kafka’s Monkey, a new adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Report to an Academy, starring award- winning actress Kathryn Hunter and adapted by Colin Teevan.
Other recent UK productions include: Unleashed at The Barbican, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Nottingham Playhouse, and All My Sons at The Curve.