Indhu Rubasingham

Indhu Rubasingham is the Director and Joint Chief Executive of the National Theatre. 

Indhu was previously Artistic Director of Kiln Theatre from 2012. Notable collaborations during her tenure, include with Zadie Smith on White Teeth, The Wife of Willesden which transferred to BAM in New York, and with Ayad Aktar on The Invisible Hand which was twice Olivier Award nominated. Other directing credits include the multi award-winning Red Velvet and Handbagged, When The Crows Visit, A Wolf In Snakeskin Shoes, Multitudes, The House That Will Not Stand, and Paper Dolls. Highlights of her programming include Florian Zeller trilogy – The Father, The Mother and The Son; and Ryan Calais Cameron’s Retrograde.  

During her tenure, new writing became a mainstay of the mission, bringing voices into the mainstream. She oversaw a major £9m capital campaign, reopening the brand new building in 2018 as Kiln Theatre. 

She has worked regularly at the National Theatre in all three South Bank auditoriums, directing productions including The Waiting Room, The Ramayana, The Motherf*cker With the Hat, The Great Wave, Ugly Lies the Bone, Kerry Jackson and most recently the critically acclaimed sell out production of Anupama Chandrasekhar’s The Father and the Assassin which returned to the Olivier theatr.