Anna Berentzen is ThickSkin’s Jerwood Associate Artist, supported by The Jerwood Foundation. Her directing credits include: Leave No Trace (Buxton Opera House in Association with Buxton Civic Association), A Very Odd Birthday Party(Hawkseed Theatre UK Tour), Astronauts, The Survivors’ Guide to Living, All I Want for Christmas (Royal Exchange Theatre). As Associate or Assistant: Hamlet Hail to the Thief (RSC and Factory International), Rumpelstiltskin, Hare & Tortoise (Buxton Opera House, In Space R&D (Ransack, The Lowry, and the National Theatre Studio), Utopia, The Tempest, We Were Told There Was Dancing (Bruntwood Prize Ceremony, Royal Exchange Theatre). Anna is Co-Founder of Hawkseed Theatre. She was part of the Royal Exchange Theatre Young Directors’ Programme and was later selected to be part of Headlong Origins scheme for regional directors.