Director
ABOUT ME
Gitika is a Queer British South Asian Director from Yorkshire, currently based in Manchester.
She directs theatre, film and radio nationally and has just finished wrapped on her film 'Before I Do' that was commissioned by the British Film Institute and was selected by BFI Flare Film Festival (The largest LGBTQ+ Film Festival in Europe) amongst others and will be screened at BFI Southbank in London 2025. She has recently been resident Staff Director at The National Theatre and been appointed Regional Associate, of Tamasha and Associate Director of LUNG Theatre Company. Gitika was picked to be one of Headlong Theatre's Origins Directors and has won Best Online Audio Production at the Off West End Awards and her work on Tanika Gupta’s play, Love N Stuff was nominated for Best Stage Production at the Asian Media Awards .
Her most recent theatre credits include Tell Me How It Ends by Tasha Dowd (Liverpool Everyman Theatre) ROAD by Jim Cartwright (Oldham Coliseum) The Father & The Assassin by Anupama Chandrasekhar (The National Theatre) Love N Stuff by Tanika Gupta (Oldham Coliseum, Watford Palace & Sheffield Theatres) and The Jungle Book (Storyhouse Theatre, Chester).
"From the moment you enter the auditorium, Director Gitika Buttoo makes sure you are integrated into the production. The characters are there, dancing, drinking on the alley, playing darts, making you laugh, making you feel uncomfortable, bringing you into their world by breaking the fourth wall."
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