Yusuf is a freelance, professional, theatre Director. He is passionate about exciting new work that messes with form and brings in new audiences. He loves new writing, contemporary plays, radical adaptations of classics, musicals and brand-new devised pieces.

• Experiment Director (Dream Arts, 2023- Present)

• Performing Arts Lecturer (Nescot College, Jan 2023 to Nov 2023)

• Learning and Engagement Officer: Communities (Oldham Coliseum Theatre, 2022-23)

• Associate Director (Exeter Northcott Theatre, 2021-22)

Productions

• How Did I Get Here? by Helen Squires (The Bread & Roses Theatre, 3 Week Run, Upcoming)

• The Banana Murder Hotel by Devised by Dream Arts Experiment Company (Dream Arts, Westminster College, 1 show, 2024)

• The Great Brazilian Adventure by Devised by Dream Arts Experiment Company (Dream Arts, Westminster College, 1 show, 2024)

• Maid Marion and the Merry Men’s Christmas by Alyx Toyle (Oldham Coliseum Theatre and Oldham and Tameside Libraries, 7 shows, 2022)

• Try Harder by Yusuf Niazi (Pursued by a Dragon, Omnibus Theatre, 2 week run, 2022)

• Footprints by Exeter University (Exeter University, Exeter Northcott Theatre, 3 shows, 2022)

• How Did I Get Here? by Helen Squires (Making Waves Theatre Company, Exeter Northcott Theatre, The Barnfield Theatre, 5 Shows 2021)

• The A Game by Exeter Northcott Kickstart Company (Southernhay Gardens, 5 shows, 2021)

• Earthquakes Festival by various writers (Same Boat Theatre Collective in collaboration with India and The USA, live via zoom, 2020)

• Small Screen Lives by Abhi Arumbakkam (Electric Dreams Festival, live via Zoom, 6 shows, 2020)

• South Asian Online Scratch Night by various writers (Pursued by a Dragon Theatre Company, YouTube, 2020)

• Between the Walls, devised by Pursued by a Dragon (Pursued by a Dragon Theatre Company, YouTube, 2020)

• So I Bled by Callan Rose McCarthy (Theatre 503, 2 shows, 2020)

• Dirty Butterfly by Debbie Tucker Green (Mountview Studios, 2 shows, 2020)

• Feeling Lonely at Parties, devised Pursued by a Dragon (The Space Arts Centre, Pursued by a Dragon Theatre Company, 1 week run, 2020)

• Change The World (Theatre 503, 2 shows, 2019)

• I Did a Bad Thing Once by Helen Squires (The Drayton Arms and The Chapel Playhouse, 3 shows, 2019)

• Feeling Lonely at Parties, devised by Pursued by a Dragon (The New Wolsey Theatre, The Camden People’s Theatre, Pursued by a Dragon Theatre Company, 1 week run, 2019)

• An Odyssey devised from The Odyssey by Homer by State of the Art Collective (The National Theatre of Rome, State of the Art Collective, 2 shows, 2019)

• Fennel Spiked Lamb by Nicole Latchana (The Bunker Theatre, The Upsetters, 2 shows, 2019)

• The Audition by Lydia Sabatini (The White Bear Theatre, Cuckoo Bang, 2 shows, 2019)

• A Murmuration of Starlings by Toby Moran Mylett (The Arcola Theatre, ACT II Festival, 1 show, 2019)

• Fuzzball – A New Musical by Lydia Byron with music and lyrics by Ben Devlin (Ravensfield Theatre, 2 shows, 2019)

• Pies Tomorrow, devised by Middlesex University Students (Ravensfield Theatre, 3 shows, 2018)

• Fugue in a Minor Key by Richard Walls (Coventry Shopfront Theatre, 1 show, 2018)

• King Ubu devised by students of Middlesex University (Middlesex University Grove Studios, 3 shows, 2018)

• Far Away by Carly Churchill (Middlesex Grove Studios, 3 shows, 2018)

• Seussical the Musical by Lyn Ahrens (Ravensfield Theatre, 3 shows, 2017)

• Clubmartyr by Richard Walls (The Birmingham REP, Coventry Shopfront Theatre, The Old Red Lion Theatre, 5 shows, 2016)

R&Ds

• Cold Turkey by Stuart Bunce (The Glitch, London, 2024)

• The Good Landlord by Ethan & Kalman Dean-Richards (The Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton, 2024)

• Feeling Lonely at Parties by Pursued by a Dragon Theatre Company (Pursued by a Dragon Theatre Company, Beyond Face, Exeter Northcott Theatre, 2021)

• Try Harder by Yusuf Niazi (Live Streamed from The Space Arts Centre, 2021)

• The Light Trail by Lydia Sabatini (Rehearsed Reading, Zoom, 2021)

• Write Away Rehearsed Readings by various artists (The Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 2016)

Assistant Directing

• The Honey Man by Tyrone Huggins (Exeter Northcott Theatre, Directed by Alix Harris, 2 week run)

• Antigone by Sophocles in a version by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Judith, Malina (Exeter Northcott Theatre, Online, Directed by Daniel Buckroyd, 2021)

• Meat by Gillian Greer (Theatre 503, Directed by Lucy Atkinson, 4 week run, 2020)

• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Mountview Studios, Directed by Matthew Dunster, 2 shows, 2019)

• The Sad Club by Luke Barnes with music by Alex Pleeth ( artsdepot, Directed by Simon Kane, 3 shows, 2019)

• Last Night I Met You Dreaming by Rebecca Totora (Fit to Burst, Ovalhouse, Directed by Rebecca Totora, 3 shows, 2018)

• The New Kid by Grace Barington (The Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Directed by Tom Saunders and Philip Morris, 3 shows, 2016)

• What Are They Like? by (The Birmingham Repertory Theatre, NT Connections, Directed by Philip Morris, 3 shows, 2016)

• The Birmingham Repertory Theatre Foundry Nights by various artists (The Birmingham REP, Directed by Daniel Bailey, Tessa Walker and Milli Bhatia, 2015-16)

Other experience and skills

• Movement Direction  
• Lighting design and operating  
• Stage Management 
• Sound Design  
• Theatre admin and producing 
• Marketing