Holly Race Roughan

Holly Race Roughan is Artistic Director of Headlong and board member of theatre-in-prisons charity Kestrel. Previous work at Shakespeare’s Globe includes Henry V (UK tour) and Metamorphoses.

Holly has directed works including The New Real (Royal Shakespeare Company), Prurience (Southbank Centre, Guggenheim New York), and Eye of a Needle (Southwark Playhouse).

For Headlong: The House Party (Chichester Festival Theatre & UK Tour), A View from the Bridge (Bolton Octagon & UK Tour), Corrina Corrina (Liverpool Everyman), Hedda Tesman (Chichester Festival Theatre), People, Places & Things (UK Tour only), and Unprecedented (BBC).

In Autumn 2025 she will direct Ralph Fiennes in Small Hotel by Rebecca Lenkiewicz for Theatre Royal Bath.