Selina Cartmell will be the first Creative Director at the Royal Exchange Theatre from August 2024.  From 2016 to 2022 she was Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, Dublin.

Selina took a First in Drama and History of Art from Trinity College, Dublin and Glasgow University and graduated with an MA (Distinction) from Central School of Speech and Drama in Advanced Theatre Directing.  In 2007 Selina was protégé to Julie Taymor as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative and n Selina was Artist-In-Residence at the Samuel Beckett Theatre between 2010 and 2011.

She has won Best Director at the Irish Times Theatre Awards three times, for Punk Rock, Titus Andronicus and Medea.